Joanne Carroll

Proposed night flights at Queenstown Airport would have "significant and widespread adverse noise effects" for residents in Frankton, Kelvin Heights, Jacks Point and Lake Hayes Estate, a hearing in Queenstown was told yesterday.

Queenstown Lakes District Mayor Clive Geddes has not made up his mind whether to run for a fourth term.

Two Otago-Southland girls received awards at the New Zealand Pony Clubs annual awards presentation in Queenstown last night.

Queenstown has the cleanest and greenest image of any tourist destination in New Zealand, according to Destination Queenstown chief executive Tony Everitt.

The owners of the Five Mile development at Frankton, near Queenstown, are appealing to the Queenstown Lakes District Council to allow new noise-sensitive activities within the Queenstown International Airport's outer noise boundary.

A group of Queenstown entertainers and event management organisations is appealing to the Queenstown Lakes District Council to refurbish the Memorial Hall.

Allowing night flights at Queenstown International Airport would expose 37 Frankton houses to noise levels that would, if unmitigated, cause sleep disturbance, a plan change hearing was told yesterday.

Coronet Alpine Chalet Ltd has applied to the Queenstown Lakes District Council for resource consent to create a 15-lot subdivision at Arthurs Point, near Queenstown.

Allowing night flights to arrive in Queenstown would boost the Otago economy by $39.4 million a year and create employment for 665 workers, a plan change hearing was told in Queenstown yesterday.

The Queenstown Lakes District Council will this evening hold a meeting to discuss last month's flood with the community. Mayor Clive Geddes said he had already had a debriefing with the council's emergency management team.

The developer of the $1 billion Kawarau Falls Station project near Queenstown is applying for variations to its resource consent to change building designs and materials and to build canopies on some of the buildings in stage 1.

Destination Queenstown members have rejected a proposal to allow directors to be nominated from the floor at the annual meeting.