Pisa Cove Ltd wants to change the previously consented conditions of ownership for travellers' accommodation units in a 24-apartment complex at Perriam Cove on Lake Dunstan.
Consent had been granted in August last year for travellers' accommodation in the form of 24 managed apartments.
Perriam Cove Ltd director Dave Robertson is now applying for a new non-complying land use consent for 72 travellers' accommodation units.
He wants to ‘‘three-key'' each of the apartments with one accommodation unit in each apartment being fully self-contained and the other two units having bathroom facilities only.
The travellers' accommodation complex would be run in association with an adjacent restaurantbar-conference facility, which has already received consent.
Ken and Judy McGraw of Pisa Moorings had submitted on the previous consent application they were worried that the travellers' accommodation would not end up being owned by a single entity and that a commercial operation could effectively lead to a hotel in a residential area with the associated signage.
Russell Ibbotson of Russell Preston Law in Queenstown had told the earlier hearing the apartments would be let from an office, most likely in Queenstown, and there would be no advertising on site, or any signs to indicate there was travellers' accommodation on site.
Mr Robertson said at that time he already had 21 apartments in Queenstown which operated in the same way.
Mr McGraw told the Otago Daily Times yesterday that he had serious concerns about the complex moving away from single-title ownership, and completely away from travellers' accommodation to become a ‘‘straight-out commercial hotel operation''.
‘‘It appears that this is exactly what it is going to be, as there has been a series of incremental creeps towards this larger operation,'' he said.
He will be submitting against the proposal.
