Accommodation businesses in Central Otago are looking for new ways to make better use of their assets.

Two businesses, in Roxburgh and Cromwell, have applied for resource consent to separate their accommodation into unit titles, giving future owners more choices.

Both the owners of Roxburgh Motels and Cromwell travellers accommodation company GZR Property Investment will have their applications considered by a hearings panel on February 10.

Although considered non-complying under the District Plan, planning consultants have recommended the subdivisions be given consent.

The owners of the Roxburgh Motels are hoping for a staged subdivision of the land and buildings, firstly separating off the manager’s residence and then creating unit titles over the nine motel units.

Rebecca Kennedy-Perkins said in her report, that the purpose of the subdivision is to enable each of the accommodation units to be owned and managed individually, with the choice to continue to be used as visitor accommodation.

The Mead Avenue travellers accommodation development in Cromwell will also involve separating each of the 28 units into individual titles.

Planning consultant Chris Pearse-Smith outlined the application as additionally involving a condition to reduce the consented three-bedroom units into two, and reducing one block into two-stories instead of three.

As a result of the changes, the accommodation will reduce the maximum number of guests from 90 to 80 through changing the size of the units.

The application is considered non-complying because it doesn’t meet the minimum lot size of 200m².

Land use consent was originally sought and approved in December 2021 to establish 18 traveller’s accommodation units in Cromwell.

The company then sought to modify the arrangement of the apartments in order to accommodate a number of single bedroom units - and consent was approved, bringing the total of units to 26.

The Lakeside Christian Centre application for a subdivision in Lowburn will also be heard the panel in February.

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