Midtown Caravan Park

TOURISM

Location: 61 Takalvan Street, Millbank
Client: Private
Description: Caravan Park
Date: 2024

The Midtown Caravan Park has been operating since the 1960’s and provides an important range of accommodation options in Bundaberg for tourists, local workers and vulnerable residents including:

  • 7 x motel rooms;
  • 25 x cabins;
  • 71 x caravan sites; and
  • 1 x manager’s residence.

HOPD was engaged to assist our client with ascertaining the site’s approval history and ultimately obtain approval for the conversion of 8 caravan sites to 8 x new cabin sites.

Services Provided

  • Strategic guidance on project and DA strategy;
  • Preparing, lodging and managing a Change application (minor) to Council for development approval within 1 week; and
  • Successfully negotiating with Council that the adopted charge in its Infrastructure Charges Resolution should not be applied.  Instead a first principles assessment was supported saving our client $10’000s in infrastructure charges.

Midtown Caravan Park

TOURISM

Location: 61 Takalvan Street, Millbank
Client: Private
Description: Caravan Park
Date: 2024

The Midtown Caravan Park has been operating since the 1960’s and provides an important range of accommodation options in Bundaberg for tourists, local workers and vulnerable residents including:

  • 7 x motel rooms;
  • 25 x cabins;
  • 71 x caravan sites; and
  • 1 x manager’s residence.

HOPD was engaged to assist our client with ascertaining the site’s approval history and ultimately obtain approval for the conversion of 8 caravan sites to 8 x new cabin sites.

Services Provided

  • Strategic guidance on project and DA strategy;
  • Preparing, lodging and managing a Change application (minor) to Council for development approval within 1 week; and
  • Successfully negotiating with Council that the adopted charge in its Infrastructure Charges Resolution should not be applied.  Instead a first principles assessment was supported saving our client $10’000s in infrastructure charges.