The owners of sections in stage 1 of the $300 million Shotover Country residential development are likely to be in their new homes by the end of the year, the development's project manager says.
Construction of the first homes is expected after the first issue of title in early September. Stage 2 titles will be about March and April 2014.
Project manager Neil McDonald said stage 1, involving roads and street lights, would be completed by August. Other infrastructure, including a sewage pump station, would be finished in the next month.
''It's going pretty well. It's on target,'' Mr McDonald said.
''We just need a bit of warmer weather to complete our asphalting.
''Sales are going well in stage 1 [and we're] starting to sell stage 2. Sales are occurring on a regular basis.''
Sections left in Oxford Neighbourhood are from 970sq m to 1560sq m, and sections in Woodstock Neighbourhood from 525sq m to 1536sq m.
Mr McDonald said an outline development plan for the site would be lodged at the end of the month and would include a commercial area.
The plan would ''show where the location is and the general concept ... it's really a neighbourhood retail'', he said.
The land has been zoned for small commercial use for servicing the community. While resource consent is required by the new owner or developer, Shotover Country does have a design to show.
Work on the first stage of a $14 million state primary school at the heart of the estate is expected to begin in the first term of next year. The Ministry of Education is working towards providing a year 1-8 primary school on a 3.3ha site in Stalker Rd, Lower Shotover. The roll
is anticipated to be about 650.
An establishment board of trustees, in consultation with Remarkables Primary and Arrowtown Schools, will decide which Wakatipu areas will be in the school's enrolment zone.
Shotover Country intended to provide a suitable area of land for an early childhood centre, but resource consent will be required.
