Queenstown contracting company Steve Rout Ltd (SRL) was yesterday ordered to stop work on a schist quarrying operation near the Fraser Dam Rd, at Earnscleugh, until the Central Otago District Council has inspected the site.
The 23-year-old Cromwell Mall is "tired and dated" and overdue for a makeover, according to the Cromwell Community Board's action plan document.
Attempts to give Cromwell's ageing town centre a major facelift are long overdue, Cromwell Community Board chairman Neil Gillespie says.
When the Cromwell Mall was officially opened on a hot summer's day in February 1985, it was the culmination of more than 20 years of upheaval and argument in the district, triggered by the concept that eventually became the Clyde Dam.
A $4 million project to develop the "world's best late-season apricot" in Clyde has been approved by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology.
Concerns that a new subdivision proposed for Cornish Point would spoil the uninterrupted views of large open spaces were raised at a Central Otago District Council planning hearing in Alexandra on Tuesday.
Plans and an artist's impressions of the Cromwell Town Centre concept will be on display in Cromwell for two weeks beginning on Monday.
The first natural-ice luge in the southern hemisphere was officially opened at Naseby on Saturday before a crowd of 400 people.
A spate of tagging in Roxburgh has prompted police to ask residents to help locate the offenders.
A $77 million increase in the valuation of Alexandra-based power generation company Pioneer Generation, wholly owned by the Central Lakes Trust, is unlikely to trigger the sale of the company.
Police are disputing part of a claim for costs incurred to have a careless driving causing injury conviction dismissed in the Alexandra District Court.
Some of the evidence presented in the Shane Cribb case in the Alexandra District Court in 2006 is being investigated by Police National Headquarters.
Dunedin police are tracking down a group of Dunedin people in relation to an assault which took place in Alexandra at the beginning of June.
Plans are progressing for a new community house for Alexandra.
Pisa Cove Ltd has been granted consent to turn 24 traveller accommodation apartments at the $42 million Perriam Cove residential marina 6.5km north of Cromwell into a 72-bed complex.
A series of toe-tingling frosts have started to freeze the Ida Burn dam near Oturehua, sparking concerns about people looking to skate on the ice.
An application for consent to change the titles of 21 travellers' accommodation units at Lowburn to residential unit titles has been turned down by the Central Otago District Council (CODC) planning committee and the company has already appealed the decision to the Environment Court.
The Central Otago Environmental Society is accusing an Alexandra developer of subdivision by stealth.
Scenes from Ranfurly will be beamed nationwide later this month when the children's TV show What Now is broadcast from the town.
Community arts in Central Otago have received a major boost in funding with a $70,000 grant from the Central Lakes Trust (CLT).
