Skyline wants helipad

Skyline Enterprises has become the successor to a Queenstown Lakes District Council resource consent application to operate a helipad on Bob's Peak, above Queenstown.

In a procedural decision last month, Environment Court Judge Jon Jackson said the council initially applied for the consent in November, 2010, with Skyline initially a section 274 party.

However, in a memorandum dated August 12 this year the council advised it did not want to pursue the application ''in its capacity as applicant'' and Skyline wanted to take it over.

''Not only does Skyline not want the application to be withdrawn, it wants the benefit of a resource consent to operate the helipad if the court is prepared to confirm it. Accordingly, I consider that Skyline is in effect the successor to the council as applicant.''

Judge Jackson said a hearing on the matter was likely to be heard in Queenstown in November. The helipad would be 400 vertical metres above the Queenstown town centre, next to the Skyline Enterprises gondola and restaurant.

 

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