A warehouse, café, shop and six self-contained two bedroom cottages will be built on the site already home to 1668 olive trees.

The processing facility will primarily be built to convert the property’s olives to olive oil.

It will also process olives at another Hill Street property and other local growers within the Hunter Valley.

Proponent Andrew Waite said the idea was inspired by the difficulty he had processing olives last season.

Basically, he had to discard his own crop after he was unable to secure processing at existing processing plants.

Mr Waite said olives were a growing industry but a fickle one with harvest forecasts very different from one tree to the next.

“You could get a maximum of 35 kg of fruit from a tree down to just 2kg,” he told those at the March 7 meeting of Singleton Council.

Council’s approval of the new facility came with more than 70 conditions including a limitation of the amount of fruit to be processed to just 500 tonnes a season.

Mr Waite told the meeting the warehouse would be no larger than the council chamber and that it would be noise proof.

Nearby residents said they had no concern with the tourism aspect of the project but did object to the size and scale of the processing facility in what is a dead-end street.

Council said it would monitor traffic use of the road and address issues should they arise.