The Joint Regional Planning Panel will consider the joint state and federal project, which is recommended for conditional approval, on Thursday.

If approved, the project will be built on the former Memorial Pool site near Raymond Terrace Bowling Club.

A report to the panel shows the two-storey Jacaranda Avenue development would operate between 8am and 10pm all week.

Services listed include community and oral health, private specialists and GPs as well as a long-awaited renal dialysis unit for the town.

Dialysis would be available between 7am and 11pm, catering for patients who have been forced to travel to Charlestown or Newcastle for treatment.

‘‘The Raymond Terrace area currently has 18 patients who travel to John Hunter Hospital or to the Wansey Centre for treatment,’’ the report says.

‘‘If all 18 patients are transferred to Raymond Terrace this will require six days of day shift and three days of afternoon shift.’’

Three submissions were made on the plan, raising concerns including its trading hours, traffic increases and devaluation of properties.

A 12-page schedule of almost 50 development conditions has been submitted to the panel, imposing protections for nearby jacaranda trees and requiring a public art feature.

The plan will go to the committee on May 10.

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