The Environment Court granted permission in March this year to Glendhu Station landowners Bob and Pam McRae and Queenstown-based golf course designer and developer John Darby to proceed with the multimillion-dollar project on about 180ha of lakefront farmland, seven years after the project was first announced.
The decision followed an appeal against a 2008 resource consent issued by the Queenstown Lakes District Council.
The project's design manager, Duane Te Paa, of Queenstown's Darby Partners, said the Environment Court decision had granted the ability to create separate titles for different areas of the station and an application for resource consent to subdivide was likely to be submitted to Lakes Environmental within the next couple of weeks. It was still to be confirmed whether three or five titles would be sought for the property - which is on one large title at present - to separate the farming operations and dwellings from the proposed golf resort development.
Surveyors had been at the site recently to "align the plans" with what was approved by the court, Mr Te Paa said.
"Judge [Jon] Jackson was very prescriptive about where lines should go on the ground to make sure wetlands were protected and fence lines were followed and natural features were excluded from the development proposal."
Mr Te Paa hoped the bulk titles would be issued by Christmas.
It was unlikely any earthworks would start this year as there was considerable design work still required for the development.
It could be anywhere from six to 12 months before work began on site, he said. Until then, it was "business as usual" for farming at the station.
The Environment Court had issued clear timing requirements for each of the development's three stages. Stage one - which would include the golf course, clubhouse, shearers' quarters, some of the planned 42 house sites and revegetation - needed to be completed within 18 months of work starting.
"Getting that programming and sequencing right is quite important because there's quite a lot to do [in stage one] ... It's a pretty tight time frame."
Public access tracks would also be created as part of the first stage.
The other stages will involve developing the remaining house sites and carrying out further revegetation. The entire project must be completed within five years.
