Mixed views for gardens plan

Submissions to the draft management plan for the Queenstown Gardens closed last week, and a total of 10 submissions were received, covering a "whole mix of views and suggestions".

Queenstown Lakes District Council parks manager Gordon Bailey said the number of submissions received was about what council expected.

"There is a whole mix of views and suggestions ... We look at them and decide what people do want and people don't want," Mr Bailey said.

The new draft management plan aims to take into account the intentions of the gardens' founders as well as those of the existing plan, put in place by the Department of Conservation in 1989.

Mr Bailey said a date would be set for a formal discussion of the submissions at the council's next Community Services meeting on December 7.

"A hearing panel will be set up and then we will make a timetable to review the submissions," he said.

The 10 submissions had not yet been looked at in detail, but Mr Bailey said the draft management plan under review was developed with previous feedback from earlier submissions and community workshops, so he did not expect much opposition.

"We will take note and work to include what everyone wants", he said.

Of the 10 submissions received, two were received on Friday.

 

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