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A new car wash is also underway at Hidden Valley, near KFC and the hospital.
Plans for office buildings at 76 Queen Street, Yeppoon, were submitted to council by Real Earth Development and are pending approval.
The floor plan for the proposed creche includes a staffroom, bathroom, laundry, store rooms, office, reception, breakout room, sleep nook, kitchen, cleaners, general learning area, amenities and outdoor play areas and spaces.
Another child care centre is in the approval process.
The 155-place child care which would employ 22 staff, has been proposed to be built at 9 and 11 Tanby Road, Yeppoon.
Plans were submitted in April and is under council review.
An Australian wave-generating surf pool with plans to expand into a year-round tourist attraction could open to visitors as early as 2022.
Broadbeach-based company Surf Lakes built the facility in 2018 near the town of Yeppoon on Queensland s Capricorn Coast.
The pool uses five wave technology to produce five different levels of waves around the lake, using a giant plunger driven by compressed air at the center.
Now, the company plans to convert the site into the ultimate surf getaway in a $187million development plan lodged with the Livingstone Council last month.
The start-up first launched the world-first technology in 2018, which boasts the highest wave productivity, with hundreds of surfers able to catch up to ten waves each per hour
Yeppoon wave pool tourism development would turn Surf Lakes site into the ultimate surf getaway
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Professional surfers spent the last two weeks testing the world-first technology.
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Perfect waves year-round, scuba diving and luxury accommodation; it is a local man s vison for Yeppoon that he hopes will transform central Queensland s surfing culture.
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Surf Lakes has lodged a development proposal to create the ultimate surf getaway
The development involves accommodation, a scuba pool and other leisure centres and is slate to bring $39 million to the region each year
A local tourism and development group says the expansion could bring a new wave of tourists to the region