Treble Cone's stalled $20 million gondola proposal is revised and moving again.
Revised plans were released to the public on the skifield's website yesterday and profile poles for a proposed base building were erected on a new site near the bottom of the skifield road.
Submitters to the original proposal should receive information about the revised development in the mail from today, development company director Richard Hanson said yesterday.
"Basically, we had to put a directional change point into the gondola alignment because we couldn't go up the route geologists had looked at previously," Mr Hanson said.
"We also put up the building profiles this morning. The area we will be using as the base area will be located in the old toll booth area."
Treble Cone parent company Snowline Holdings Ltd applied for the system in July 2006.
An interim resource consent decision released in December 2006 said the application, as submitted, would not be approved.
Commissioners David Collins and Gillian Macleod did not reject the application, but provided the developer with the opportunity to think over aspects of the base building and gondola pathway, in the hope solutions could be found that would not have adverse environmental effects on the outstanding natural landscape.
The commissioners' main concerns were the cluster of large buildings and the gondola crossing the Matukituki Valley floor and road.
They were also concerned about the amount of parking.
The commissioners rejected both of Snowline Holding's original two options for the base buildings and said they preferred something minimal, consisting of no more than a waiting room with ticketing facilities, toilets, storage, and basic staff facilities.
They suggested these should be sited as close as possible to the skifield access road.
Since then, Snowline Holdings have been conducting more geological studies to determine whether it was technically viable to proceed.
The next step was for the submitters and the council to consider and respond to the revisions.
The hearing would reopen on October 22, Mr Hanson said.
