Corporation chairman Mark Taylor and chief executive Steve Sanderson advised Lakes Environmental last Friday that Queenstown Airport, as the requiring authority, "accepted in part and rejected in part" the recommendation on the notice of requirement for the expansion of the existing aerodrome designation.
The change in designation was needed to provide for a 90m engineered fill of 650,000cu m of gravel, 45m up from the Shotover delta, at the eastern end of the runway.
The estimated $10 million Resa would take up to 27 months to build and needed to be completed by October 2011 to meet Civil Aviation Authority safety requirements and secure the airport's international status.
In their letter, Mr Taylor and Mr Sanderson said they rejected commissioners Trevor Shiels and Christine Kelly's resolution that upper limits for construction noise received in residential and rural zones should apply to Glenda Dr custodial units during the night. .
The corporation said Glenda Dr was an industrial zone in the district plan and there was nothing stopping industrial activity during the night.
"Construction of the Resa is required to be undertaken during night-time hours to avoid interference with airport operations," Mr Taylor and Mr Sanderson wrote.
"[Queenstown Airport Corporation] instead suggested that prior to the commencement of night-time construction works that Glenda Dr residents were informed and advised to keep windows closed during the night to achieve an appropriate indoor noise level."
The corporation added that condition seven was an "unnecessary duplication" of dust management measures, which were dealt with in condition one.
Lakes Environmental notified all parties who made a submission and any affected party of the decision.
The parties have until the end of October to lodge an appeal with the Environment Court.
Remarkables Park Ltd and Shotover Park Ltd, subsidiaries of Porter Group, were among the parties who opposed in part the notice of requirement for the designation change during hearings in July and August.
The group wanted the formation of the paper eastern access road guaranteed in case construction was delayed beyond 2011 and there was debate over the appropriate width of the access road as it crossed the Resa.
Remarkables Park and Shotover Park counsel, Dr Royden Somerville QC, said this week his client had not instructed him to lodge an appeal.
