95-unit hotel complex on a green south shore site.

But first members want to tour the property and get an idea of its impact on the environment.

The plan, by the religious Willowbank Foundation, is for the 36-acre Southlands estate on the south shore in Warwick.

The land, on either side of South Road, acts as a green buffer between Dunscombe Road in the east and Rocklands Eastate in the west.

It is the Island's last major chunk of undeveloped land zoned for hotel buildings.

The foundation wants to build 27 self-catering cottages and a restaurant near the beachfront. The rest of the planned hotel-cottage colony would be built in later years.

The foundation hopes to use proceeds from the operation to subsidise 40 homes for senior citizens, also planned for the site.

But it has offered to keep more than half the property permanently undeveloped.

At their latest meeting, Development Applications Board members voted to delay their decision on whether the plan should get "in principle'' approval until a site visit.

They will examine pegged-out plots to see where the cottages will be, before making their decision on Wednesday.

The foundation already runs the successful Willowbank hotel in Sandys.