Bathurst Regional Council has been mooted as a potential buyer for the resort, but management was this week unwilling to confirm or deny any plans.

The $50 million development has sat idle since receivers Deloitte were called in last August.

Deloitte put the resort on the market in October but, despite some expressions of interest, has been unable to find a buyer for the 135 strata-titled apartment complex. It has been suggested the resort might sell for $25-$30 million.

But despite growing speculation that council might be looking at the resort, general manager David Sherley would only say that as far as he knew there had been “no resolution at that site”.

But, when pushed, he conceded that finding a buyer for the resort would benefit the whole region and that the longer the development remained empty, the more difficult the issue became.

“Buildings need to be utilised,” Mr Sherley said. “As far as council is concerned, the best thing would be for that resort to open as soon as possible because of the benefits to all events at the Mount.”

Mr Sherley said council believed the resort would be booked out for four major events a year: the Bathurst 1000; the Bathurst 12-Hour; the Festival of Sporting Cars; and Trackcorp, a private event where the track is hired out to a private company for exclusive use.

“We believe it would be full every time there is a full-track event at the Mount, and there are four of those a year, and also provide extra accommodation which would be a benefit for the whole region,” Mr Sherley said.

He said council was in regular contact with Deloitte to monitor the resort’s progress.

“We’re regularly talking with Deloittes to understand where they’re up to with the potential selling of the facility and also to understand their intentions for it,” he said.

“For example, we needed access to that site for the V8s last year and had to get that through Deloittes. We would like to see the whole facility being available for the V8s this year, but otherwise we will be talking to Deloittes again about at least getting access to the front of the site.”