Melview (Kawarau Falls Station) Developments, which is in receivership, has applied to the Queenstown Lakes District Council for land-use consent for a height infringement on one of the five stage 1 buildings.
The company holds various consents for apartment and hotel buildings as part of a community and resort development on the shores of Lake Wakatipu.
Earthworks have been undertaken and five buildings are nearing completion, the application says.
It says "small wedges" of the Lakeview West building exceeded the 10m height limit by up to .485m.
The firm was now seeking land-use consent for the infringement, which did not make the building more obvious or stand out in an incongruous manner, the application said.
The additional height would have a minor or less-than-minor effect on public views, it says.
"The views of the height infringement from further away across the lake will not be significantly different to the approved height."
The company is also seeking resource consent to hold up to 50 functions a year in the landscaped areas in and around the Reserve North building.
The functions for up to 200 people would be predominantly associated with the hotel in Reserve North.
They would include market days, meetings, exhibitions, entertainment events and weddings, and would involve the use of tents and marquees.
"The function activities will have less than minor impact on the amenity of the environment, including the nearest residential properties," the application says.
The company was also seeking a variation of its resource consent relating to landscaping plans for the Reserve North building.
The landscaping changes included the addition of decks, lawns, gardens, a timber boardwalk and a "mountain-inspired tree-planting palette".
It no longer wanted to build an outdoor pool or spa.
Tree plantings would partly screen the existing buildings, but the changes would mainly be in internal areas of the site surrounded by three to five-storey buildings.
Fulton Hogan has the contract for landscaping and the building of streets on the site.
Regional manager Alan Peacock said the company had eight workers carrying out initial site work.
The landscaping work would take up to eight months to complete.
The development's receivers, KordaMentha, could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Receiver Grant Graham previously told the Otago Daily Times a preferred operator had been selected for the two stage 1 hotels, which were due to open in September.
He refused to comment on speculation about a Hilton Hotel opening at the site, despite the Hilton group advertising for management positions for a Hilton Queenstown on the shores of Lake Wakatipu.
The company has been in receivership since May last year and the receivers' second report showed it owed its mortgagee, Bank of Scotland International, $180 million and unsecured creditors a further $3.5 million.
