Permission has been granted for another house on the Peregrine Wines vineyard at Bendigo, despite the house breaching district plan rules.
The Central Otago District Council's hearing panel considered the resource consent application from Lindsay McLachlan, director of Peregrine Estate, last month and has granted it, subject to 16 conditions. He applied to build a second home on a 20.7ha site, on land potentially prone to flooding and a design that breached the yard, maximum height and skyline protrusion rules.
Neighbouring property owners Geoff Adams and Michelle Vizor opposed the application and said the proposed home would detract from the heritage values of the 142-year-old Bendigo bakehouse ruins next door. They said it would have negative effects on their amenity values and the building would be ''dominant'' when viewed from their property.
In its decision, the panel said more accommodation was needed because of the scale of vineyard activity.
The house and shed would be above the level of any known floodwaters and the house would have no more than a minor effect on the open space, landscape, natural character and amenity values of the environment.
Conditions were imposed on the location of the house, its colour, access and water supply and the council said the existing cottage building was permitted to be used for workers' accommodation and private accommodation of friends and family, not for travellers' accommodation or long-term rentals.
