THURSDAY marks determination day for a $21.9 million dollar proposed bulky goods development including a Masters Home Improvement Store.
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The Northern Joint Regional Planning Panel will consider a council assessment report which contains a recommendation to approve the development application subject to recommended conditions.
The site at 18 John Oxley Drive is earmarked for Masters Home Improvement Store, three bulky goods tenancies, car parking and associated infrastructure.
A planned subdivision would divide the site into two lots.
One lot is proposed for the Masters Home Improvement Store with a total gross floor area of about 13,400 square metres, car parking for 385 vehicles and loading facilities.
A bulky goods retail premises incorporating three tenancies, car parking for a 138 vehicles, loading facilities and a turning area would sit on the second lot.
Associated landscaping, infrastructure and signs are also planned.
Entry to the development would be off John Oxley Drive.
The NSW Department of Planning and Environment in June approved an application to rezone 4.8 hectares at 18 John Oxley Drive from primary production to land for business development.
Rezoning was needed for the bulky goods proposal to proceed to the development application stage.
Construction of a new signalised intersection is planned in John Oxley Drive at the site access and associated duplication of the road in the site frontage.
There would be a secondary access from John Oxley Drive for service vehicles.
The Northern Joint Regional Planning Panel will consider the development application when it meets in Port Macquarie on Thursday.
The meeting, which is open to the public, begins at 10.30am at Port Macquarie-Hastings Council headquarters at the corner of Burrawan and Lord streets.
The planning panel will consider the development application because of the capital investment value of more than $20 million.
In response to an inquiry from the Port News given the uncertainty around the future of the home improvement chain, a Masters spokeswoman said a development application had been lodged with Port Macquarie-Hastings Council for a new Masters store at Port Macquarie.
"Further detail on the development will be made available in due course," she said.
