Willowridge Developments Ltd, owned by Allan Dippie, has applied for resource consent for the development next to a quarry owned by Mr Dippie’s Central Machine Hire Ltd.
The company proposes six lots on the site’s upper terrace and is suggesting design controls, including a 4.5m limit on the height of buildings and restrictions over materials used.
The company would remove wilding conifers from the lower terrace over the five years after consent, if granted.
A large area next to Kane Rd is in the process of being cleared.
The company’s application says that the lower part of the subdivision is on a narrow strip of land "not suitable for rural purposes".
Part of the property is within an area described as an "outstanding natural feature" because of its association with the Clutha River.
The company’s landscape report says the proposed development "will not compromise" the open character of the outstanding natural feature.
Landscape management strategies and design controls would screen the development.
"The proposal will represent an isolated and visually evasive residential development which ... will not be readily perceivable," the report says.
And the subdivision would "not constitute sprawl of built development along the roads of the district".
