Arthurs Point residents have strongly opposed Totally Tourism Ltd's bid to change its resource consent to broaden the type of helicopter trips it can operate from the Arthurs Point Rd helipad.
Lakes Environmental received 213 submissions by Thursday's deadline and more were expected in the post.
The vast majority of submissions in opposition came from Arthurs Point residents who wanted the Queenstown Lakes District Council to decline the application and declare the commercial helicopter operation's existing consent no longer valid.
Shotover Top 10 Holiday Park owner Kenneth Mitchell, of Arthurs Point, said he was opposed because of the "adverse effect on the residents of Arthurs Point from the additional noise" from helicopters.
"There have been significant changes in the Arthurs Point area since [the original landing consent] was first approved some 15 years ago, and that had today's housing developments existed at that time, the adverse effects on the community of the granting of that application would have been considered significant and the application declined."
Brent Rands, Gantleys Restaurant Ltd owner and a resident in an adjacent building, said he had suffered excessive health risks, noise and odour pollution from increased activity on the helipad, about 100m away since 2003.
Arthurs Point resident Phil Crosbie echoed several submitters when he described helicopter operations as an "invasion of noise in a peaceful area.
We have an airport for helicopters".
Southern World NZ Ltd managing director Martin Horgan submitted the inbound tour operator regularly contracted the services of Totally Tourism's Helicopter Line for international visitors.
The Ewing family, of Wanaka, sent three submissions.
The applicant's approach-noise and departure-noise effects were taken into account in the Resource Management Act and anything other than the immediate take-off and landing manoeuvres, and helicopter sitting on the helipad was considered overflying and was controlled by the Civil Aviation Authority, Charlie Ewing said.
"Granting this consent will allow the operator to better manage flight paths to avoid directly overflying Arthur's Point when winter heli-rafting takes place . . . adverse effects as a result of the helipad use will be no greater than if flights departed from Queenstown Airport and flew over the area.
In fact, they will be less."
Lakes Environmental had not received so many public submissions since the 964 it processed for Snowline Holdings (Treble Cone) in 2005.
A date for the resource consent hearing has not been set.
