Ten appellants are proceeding to the Environment Court against the Queenstown Lakes District Council's plan change for Frankton.
Plan change 19 Frankton Flats B is the land between Queenstown Airport, Glenda Dr industrial area, State Highway 6 and Frankton Flats.
The change would rezone the land to allow for educational, residential, visitor accommodation, commercial, industrial, business and recreational activities.
Queenstown Airport Corporation, Trojan Holdings Ltd, Manapouri Beech Investments Ltd, Foodstuffs, Five Mile Holdings, FM Custodians, Air New Zealand, Remarkables Park, Shotover Park and Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust have lodged appeals to the Environment Court.
Judge Jon Jackson set a timetable for evidence to be exchanged at a pre-hearing conference at the Queenstown District Court yesterday.
The council's lawyer Jayne McDonald told the court the appellants' issues included large format retail activities, location of the eastern arterial road, roading and transport, and boundaries.
The parties were in mediation talks, but if agreement could not be reached a hearing would be held later this year.
A pre-hearing conference was also held yesterday into the appeal against the Queenstown Lakes District Council's decision to grant resource consent to the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Dunedin to build a school on Speargrass Flat Rd.
The consent approved the $3 million 112-pupil primary school with 22 conditions.
Ayburn Farm Estates Ltd and a group of residents including Gemma and Glenn Davis and Jane and Mark Taylor have appealed the decision to the Environment Court.
Judge Jackson set an evidence timetable at the conference and said a hearing would not take place before June.
