Huskisson hotel: Plans for $11.5m development near Moona Moona Creek Inlet
Visitors to Shoalhaven will be able to enjoy a new multi-million dollar hotel and apartment complex with a pool, restaurant and day spa on the water, if plans are given the green light.
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Vistors and residents will have a new place to stay in Huskisson in style if plans for an $11.5 million hotel with apartments are given the green light.
PDC Planners has submitted a development application to Shoalhaven Council for the complex, planned adacent to the popular Moona Moona Creek Inlet public recreation area.
The mixed-use development includes a 40-room hotel, restaurant, day spa, guest gym, pool and an apartment building containing 39 units.
The hotel includes 34 standard rooms, six suites, a 30-square metre gym, indoor and outdoor food and drink premises over the ground floor and first floors. The lawn, picnic area and pool will be communal amenities shared between motel guests and occupants of the residential units.
Apartments will feature five one-bedroom, 24 two-bedroom and 10 three-bedroom units.
More than 100 parking spaces are also proposed for guests and residents to use in the complex’s basement.
Further works included construction of a section of road on the unformed Moona St to provide access to the basement and further parking.
“The proposed Moona Street parking is almost directly opposite the existing public parking area on the eastern side of Burrill Street associated with Moona Moona Creek Reserve,” PDC Planners state in its environmental effects report.
“The parking will operate as overflow parking for Moona Moona Creek visitors and is likely to provide great public benefit at this well visited tourist location.
“In addition, it is worth considering that many visitors to the food and drink premises on site are likely to also be visiting Moona Moona Creek Reserve, and vice versa, creating a mutually beneficial parking arrangement.”
The site is currently zoned B4 which, under the Shoalhaven Local Environment Plan, permits multi-dwelling housing such as apartments and hotel or motel accommodation with consent. It’s maximum height is 14.45 metres.
Most of the vegetation is to be removed, but the development will prioritise retaining hollow-bearing trees “in areas subject to landscaping.
“This will result in a reduction of impacts to biodiversity as a result of the development. Landscaped areas within the subject land will retain canopy trees, prioritising trees with hollows,” the Biosis report states in its conclusion.
“Threatened fauna recorded during targeted surveys included Powerful Owl and Eastern Bentwing-bat. Both species were considered to use the subject land and subject land for foraging purposes only. No threatened flora were recorded.”
The development is currently before Shoalhaven Council.