A special development order relating to the Wyndham Hotel and Resort that has been advertised as a Government Notice is not connected to the expected $200 million re-development of the South Shore establishment.

The publication of the SDO keeps a pre-existing development scheme planned by the previous resort owners as an option, but it is unlikely to have any bearing on the vision of the future the Windwalker Bermuda LCC consortium has for the site that it took ownership of earlier this year.

Fifty-eight townhouses, two luxury homes, new guest units to the east of the Bay Wing and a restaurant are among the items in the scheme covered by the pre-existing SDO.

But Alan Worden, managing director of the Lehman Brothers-backed consortium, said the exercise in advertising the special development order was merely to confirm what permissions already exist.

He said discussions on the consortium?s redevelopment of the resort have been undertaken and will be revealed in due course.

In an interview earlier this year, Mr. Worden expressed optimism that the 32-acre resort would be turned into a ?five or six star resort?. The consortium has already invested $20 million in the resort.