An additional 40 motel units on the old Oamaru Hospital grounds are in the pipeline.
The units would be part of the existing Eden Gardens Motel complex and built by site and motel owner Goodland Group.
The company has applied for consent to rearrange boundaries to accommodate the units and provide a new cul-de-sac, and representatives were in Oamaru last week to provide further information requested by a Waitaki District Council panel considering the application.
Goodland Group senior project manager Hari De Alwis said the council should then have all the information it needed.
He believed the development was a positive for Oamaru.
"It is good for the community if we have fresh buildings going up and more activity going up there."
The company was developing the site in stages and this stage was referred to as part 2a of "Goodland Heights".
A planner for the company submitted to the council that the effects of the proposal were all positive.
"The only affected persons are the applicants themselves, as the non-complying aspects of the application are internal to the site."
In 2004, resource consent was granted for the whole of the old hospital site.
That consent was for the creation of 10 commercial allotments, 10 residential allotments, six allotments for access and parking and one lot to vest as road.
Council interim planner Sherilyn Byron said that encompassed the development of traveller accommodation, serviced apartments, restaurants, shops and a viewing platform.
Since then that land use consent has lapsed. Now the applicant has applied for a land use and subdivision resource consents to redevelop part of the old hospital site for traveller accommodation.
The company which applied for the new 2017 resource consent was Abib (Oamaru) Ltd, a subsidiary of Goodland Group.
In a section of the 2017 report called Overall Vision, it was stated that since the first redevelopment of the old hospital site the applicant had bought further property up the ridge line to the west.
It is proposed to develop all the property in four phases.
Phase one has already started and has consent. That phase is to create 24 residential allotments. Land use consent for a future restaurant and cafe in an existing building on site would be the subject of a future application.
Phase two consisted of building motels, four apartment tower blocks and the conversion of other existing buildings on the site.
This application is the first of phase two.
