Mount Lofty Golf Resort - redevelopment of Stirling Golf Club

Consultation has concluded

Share your views on the proposed tourist accommodation, function centre and associated works at Stirling Golf Club.

What's being decided?

We are seeking your feedback on a proposal to build new tourist accommodation and golf club facilities, provide retail and café space, and improve the golf course at Stirling Golf Club.

The proposed redevelopment, known as Mount Lofty Golf Resort, includes:

  • constructing a new hotel building and private retreats (pods)
  • a new clubhouse facility and pro-shop, administration areas and change rooms
  • retention and improvements to the 18-hole golf course
  • conservation works and adaptive reuse of a local heritage place to accommodate a café, retail and function space
  • about 200 car parking spaces in two parking areas
  • tree and native vegetation removal and associated landscaping.

You are invited to provide your feedback on the proposal outlined in the Development Report - Mount Lofty Golf Resort, prepared by Mount Lofty Golf Estate.

Background

In December 2020, the Minister for Planning declared the Mount Lofty Golf Resort project should be assessed as a ‘major development’ to ensure environmental, community and economic impacts are fully examined in assessing the proposal.

The independent State Planning Commission developed guidelines for Mount Lofty Golf Estate to prepare a development report, outlining what they want to do, what the environmental impacts will be and how those impacts will be managed.

The development report covers the proposal in detail, design and materials, construction and ongoing operation of the development and environmental assessments.

This environmental impact assessment pathway is the most rigorous level of development assessment in South Australia and is reserved for projects of economic, social or environmental importance to the state.

Get involved

Find out more:

Have your say by:

  • taking our 5-10 minute survey
  • emailing a submission to: spcreps@sa.gov.au
  • posting your written submission to: Minister for Planning, Attention: Robert Kleeman, Manager, Crown and Impact Assessment, Planning and Land Use Services, Department for Trade and Investment, GPO Box 1815, ADELAIDE SA 5001

Hard copy documents are also available to view at Planning and Land Use Services at 83 Pirie Street, Stirling Library, Woodside Library and Gumeracha Library.

What are the next steps?

Mount Lofty Golf Estate will consider your feedback in developing a ‘response document’ that outlines the feedback received, addresses any issues raised during consultation and outlines proposed changes to the development.

We will publish the response document on this website and the PlanSA website.

The State Planning Commission will then provide the Minister for Planning with an Assessment Report and recommendations for consideration in making his decision on the proposed development.

Share your views on the proposed tourist accommodation, function centre and associated works at Stirling Golf Club.

What's being decided?

We are seeking your feedback on a proposal to build new tourist accommodation and golf club facilities, provide retail and café space, and improve the golf course at Stirling Golf Club.

The proposed redevelopment, known as Mount Lofty Golf Resort, includes:

  • constructing a new hotel building and private retreats (pods)
  • a new clubhouse facility and pro-shop, administration areas and change rooms
  • retention and improvements to the 18-hole golf course
  • conservation works and adaptive reuse of a local heritage place to accommodate a café, retail and function space
  • about 200 car parking spaces in two parking areas
  • tree and native vegetation removal and associated landscaping.

You are invited to provide your feedback on the proposal outlined in the Development Report - Mount Lofty Golf Resort, prepared by Mount Lofty Golf Estate.

Background

In December 2020, the Minister for Planning declared the Mount Lofty Golf Resort project should be assessed as a ‘major development’ to ensure environmental, community and economic impacts are fully examined in assessing the proposal.

The independent State Planning Commission developed guidelines for Mount Lofty Golf Estate to prepare a development report, outlining what they want to do, what the environmental impacts will be and how those impacts will be managed.

The development report covers the proposal in detail, design and materials, construction and ongoing operation of the development and environmental assessments.

This environmental impact assessment pathway is the most rigorous level of development assessment in South Australia and is reserved for projects of economic, social or environmental importance to the state.

Get involved

Find out more:

Have your say by:

  • taking our 5-10 minute survey
  • emailing a submission to: spcreps@sa.gov.au
  • posting your written submission to: Minister for Planning, Attention: Robert Kleeman, Manager, Crown and Impact Assessment, Planning and Land Use Services, Department for Trade and Investment, GPO Box 1815, ADELAIDE SA 5001

Hard copy documents are also available to view at Planning and Land Use Services at 83 Pirie Street, Stirling Library, Woodside Library and Gumeracha Library.

What are the next steps?

Mount Lofty Golf Estate will consider your feedback in developing a ‘response document’ that outlines the feedback received, addresses any issues raised during consultation and outlines proposed changes to the development.

We will publish the response document on this website and the PlanSA website.

The State Planning Commission will then provide the Minister for Planning with an Assessment Report and recommendations for consideration in making his decision on the proposed development.

Consultation has concluded

  • Update 31 July 2024

    Public consultation on the proposed redevelopment occurred during July to August 2023.

    177 submissions were received during this period and were provided to the applicant to respond to.

    A response document, prepared by the applicant to respond to the submissions is currently being reviewed. Once finalised, it will be publicly released along with the submissions upon which it has been prepared.

    The State Planning Commission will then complete an assessment report with a recommendation made to the Minister for Planning, who is the decision maker.