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PEACHLAND PROUD! YOUR LOCAL REALTOR
Chad Rogers REALTOR®
The week of November 21, 2025
NEW RESTING PLACE The bear family sculpture is now in its temporary home P.9
SPECIAL REUNION Organizers of 2009’s centennial celebrations reunite P.8
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PROJECT STALLED
No progress on the Ponderosa development frustrates investors and golf lovers No observable progress on any of the required work.
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By Keith Fielding
t one time Peachland had a simple but highly popular golf course at the top of Ponderosa Drive. In fact, it was so popular that when the news broke that a developer wanted to turn the land into a destination golf resort with a Greg Norman designed eighteen hole course, and a village centre complete with hotel, vineyards, clubhouse, 2,310 homes and 4,100 residents, the proposal drew an enthusiastic response in many quarters -- especially among golfers. The project advanced through various public consultations and led finally to the creation and adoption by council of the nec-
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Some of the 69 homes known as The Trails.
essary zoning and OCP changes, including an Area Sector Plan and a Phased Development Agreement. By 2012 construction work began. Subsequently, in a project known as “The Trails” 69 homes were built, sold and occupied. Fast forward to 2025. No further development has occurred, the original developer has abandoned the project, and ownership of the lands has passed to two
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separate entities: Rompsen, a real estate investment group that now owns the southern portion of the lands, and Beech Westwood, a group that in association with Westbank First Nations owns the northern part of the property. With the original plan no longer in force, the Rompsen group were first to come to council seeking approval to build. The request was for permission to
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build 445 homes. Peachland required as a condition of approval that the plan had to include a nine hole golf course and completion of a road connection between Somerset and Ponderosa. Necessary zoning and OCP changes were made and an agreement reached with Rompsen about project time lines and sequencing. SEE STALLED PAGE 7
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