A historic pub at Dubbo planning a $1.6 million expansion faces a $300,000 bill for parking spaces in the city.
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The Milestone Hotel project satisfied two major issues after more than a year of negotiations but the loss of car spaces remained unresolved.
Now Dubbo City Council will consider a “significant variation” of its requirements for the site that if passed would add another $319,150 proponent to Kayora’s bill but also allow approval of the project.
The potential solution to the sticking point is contained in the council’s planning and development committee business papers for March, publicly-available and provided to the Daily Liberal by the council.
A development application (DA) was first submitted by Kayora in November 2012 for the state heritage listed item formerly known as the Kemwah building.
Extensions were proposed to the rear first floor, the kitchen, the ground floor rear verandah - providing an outdoor beer garden - and reinstatement of a verandah to the front and side of the hotel’s first floor.
They would be the first significant changes to the Macquarie Street property since Kayora’s Neville and Joanne Blair opened the Milestone Hotel in 2005.
Council planning services supervisor Darryll Quigley is the author of a report that will go to tonight’s committee meeting, in which he makes recommendations to councillors.
The proposed development involved three major issues, two of which had been satisfactorily resolved but a third that required a significant variation to council’s requirements, Mr Quigley said in the report.
The approval of the NSW Heritage Office had been sought and granted after negotiation and some redesign, he said.
Secondly, noise impacts had also been resolved following the submission of an acoustic report and agreement on the requirements necessary for compliance with the Noise Act, he said.
Parking needed addressing because an additional 524 square metres of floor area would reduce existing parking from 12 spaces to five.
“No substantive argument has been provided to council in support of this proposal,” Mr Quigley said.
An accepted parking rate of 30 per cent of that required in the development control plan meant the project would be 13 car spaces short, the council planner said.
These could be provided “elsewhere in the CBD” in accordance with a council contributions plan for roads, traffic management and car parking at the rate of $24,550 each, or for the total of $319,150, paid by the proponent.
The variation proposed was consistent with the provisions of the contributions plan, Mr Quigley said in his report.
He recommended the committee accept the variation to five car spaces and seek a contribution in lieu of car parking.
He also recommended the DA for the alterations and additions be approved subject to a list of 58 conditions.
Should the committee endorse his recommendations they would go to the ordinary council meeting next week for final approval.
