The Central Otago District Council and a neighbour objecting to the construction of a water supply reservoir on the Sugarloaf hill near Cromwell have resolved their differences.
Bob Perriam had appealed to the Environment Court against commissioner David Collins granting resource consent for the reservoir to be established on the lower slopes of the Sugarloaf's northern end.
The matter was heard by an independent commissioner in May last year as the council had applied to itself for resource consent.
The council and Mr Perriam have been in mediation to try and resolve the appeal.
In a consent order made public this week, Environment Court Judge Jon Jackson changed some of the conditions of resource consent and added more detail about landscaping the site and mitigating the visual effect or the reservoir.
He said earthworks to gain access from the existing site had to be kept to a minimum. Tussock was to be planted on most of the exposed cut and fill.
Under the council's recent changes to its district plan, the opposite end of the Sugarloaf, near the Lowburn inlet, has been designated as an "outstanding natural feature."
