The Queenstown Lakes District Council may offer its services as a mediator for appeals over the proposed $300 million Shotover Country residential development.
Situated 10km northeast of Queenstown, between the Shotover River and Lake Hayes Estate, the 120ha development would include up to 750 new houses and small-scale retail.
The QLDC strategy committee in November approved plan change 41 - Shotover Country, starting a 30-day appeal period which drew four appeals.
Tomorrow, the committee will be briefed on the appeals and, in a report on the matter, has been advised to inform the Environment Court council "that it is prepared to mediate".
Appeals were received from the Queenstown Airport Corporation, Arith Holdings Ltd and two from the development proposers, the Ladies Mile Partnership.
Neighbouring landowners Helen and Preston Stevens have joined the QAC and Arith Holdings appeals as a section 274 party, while the Otago Regional Council has joined the Ladies Mile Partnership and Arith Holdings appeals in relation to flood risk issues.
The QAC seeks to have the whole of the plan change deleted on the basis of reverse-sensitivity noise issues to the airport, in a bid to have mechanical ventilation and "no-complaints covenants" introduced.
Arith Holdings Ltd was a company owned by the Jacks Point developers and, as such, a trade competitor. It also asked for the plan change to be declined on the same grounds and because it failed to represent "sustainable management of natural and physical resources".
The Ladies Mile Partnership's first notice of appeal seeks changes in eight areas, including terrace buffer area planting, road setbacks, and housing density.
Its second appeal seeks to repeal the reduction of an area of land - and therefore a reduction in the number of houses - which the Otago Regional Council considers to be at risk of flooding.
