Developer fees may fund work
By SARAH ALLELY
THE Killalea State Park Trust is gearing up to build a road down to The Farm beach, an amenities block and space for 90 cars – all funded by the developer behind the planned tourist resort.
Trust chair Ed Gilmore said a development application would go to Shellharbour City Council in a few weeks for the amenities block and a viewing platform, but the road was approved about a year ago.
“We’ll have disabled access right to the sand,” Mr Gilmore said.
The facilities would be at the southern end of The Farm, and Mr Gilmore hoped it would not eat up all the money received from the developers as a down-payment.
On April 30, NSW Lands Minister Tony Kelly signed an agreement to lease three parcels of Killalea land for 52 years to Killalea Coastal Investments, a joint venture between Mariner Financial and Babcock & Brown.
It allows 202 residential lodges, swimming pools, tennis courts, restaurants and a conference centre.
When the agreement was signed, the developers made two payments to the trust totalling “in excess of $800,000”, the developers’ spokesman, Peter White, said.
The first was for legal fees of more than $200,000 – a condition of the tender process.
The second was an option fee of about $600,000 – for the exclusive rights to seek a development application for the three sections of the park to be leased.
An information report went to Shellharbour City Council last night, and Kiama Municipal Council last week, which outlines the trust’s meetings, as requested by councillors.
Save Killalea Alliance spokeswoman Sonya McKay is concerned the developer is funding infrastructure in the park before the resort development application has been submitted or approved.
Illawarra Mercury - 25 July 2007
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