The GCCC Town Planning Committee reconfirmed their previous decision to limit this development to 21 units. The supervising town planner said their previous recommendation of 25 units has changed to reflect new information received. Thank you to all the people who did very well researched submissions. Councillor Douglas gave very solid support and we are grateful. Councillor Douglas has suggested that the land resumption from the block for road widening should proceed now and not wait for development to start.
The developer has said all along that fewer than 25 units are not financially viable and there is a feeling from some members of GCCC that the development will not proceed. We live in hope that the block will be sold. It will have approval for 21 units but, hopefully, a purchaser would realise more return with something of better quality and fewer units. We might finish up with our 10 townhouses yet.
What we have learned is that we need to be proactive right through a development application because the Town Planner assigned is all in the luck of the draw.
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