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Wanaka residents have until October 19 to say whether they want pay and display parking machines.

A zipline company's 11th hour appeal has stymied Skyline Enterprises plans for a competing business in the same area - for now, at least.

It has been a big week for the group behind a proposed watersports building on the Lake Wanaka shore.

Queenstown's primary council building could potentially suffer a ''brittle collapse'' - similar to Canterbury's CTV building - in a major earthquake, councillors were told yesterday.

A long running legal battle between rival Queenstown jet boat companies has gone another round in court.

The Environment Court has approved the Northlake subdivision in Wanaka which will eventually increase the number of houses in the town by a third.

Queenstown residents pushing for the new Kawarau River bridge to be built downstream say the council's stance is ''absolute nonsense''.

The Queenstown Lakes District Council is keeping a close eye on its water use while irrigating reserves this summer, after exceeding its water take for Wanaka's Pembroke Park.

Queenstown developer Alastair Porter says his company, Remarkables Park Ltd (RPL), has the money to fund a proposed conference centre at Frankton, the company believing it to be the ''optimal site'' and the proposal the one which would deliver the ''greatest economic value to the district''.

The Queenstown Lakes District Council's draft dog control bylaw has been criticised for being complex and overly restrictive.

It has taken three years of legal battles but Queenstown will get a Pak'n Save and Mitre 10 Mega store at Frankton Flats, after no appeals were lodged against approved resource consents.

As corporate and community interests collide over a parcel of land on the banks of the Clutha River near Wanaka, the future of a proposed public riverside park - featuring conservation, recreational, historic and educational elements - is unclear. Lucy Ibbotson talks to those behind the park proposal and the long-term landowner.

Lake Hawea residents are on notice - if they do not take better care of their recycling station, in Domain Rd, the Queenstown Lakes District Council will do away with it.

Luggate residents have again come out fighting against a proposed solar sludge-drying facility near their town, this time through the formal consultation process.