Just days after getting a favourable decision from the Environment Court, the developers of the new 1500-lot Northlake subdivision are preparing to set up a sales office and two Queenstown-style show homes.
Northlake Investments has applied to the Queenstown Lakes District Council for resource consent for a ''sales precinct'' on part of its proposed development.
The consent application was formally received by the council in August and says the house designs have been used previously in the Bridesdale Farm development in Queenstown as part of a ''comprehensive medium-density housing development''.
They would be examples of the ''dwelling style and amenity that will be possible at Northlake''.
The houses - a two-storey, 144sq m ''Glenfellen'' and a one-storey 146sq m ''Bridesdale'' - will be for ''display purposes only'', will not have residents and will not have water and wastewater until services are constructed for that part of the development.
A temporary generator will provide lighting and heating and a Portaloo will be installed.
The application describes the commercial effects of the sales precinct as ''relatively passive'' with most activity during weekends.
The Environment Court issued an interim decision last month approving the Queenstown Lakes District Council's plan change 45 required for the 220ha subdivision, on the northern outskirts of Wanaka towards the Clutha River.
Northlake's lawyer, Warwick Goldsmith, said at that point Northlake Investment owners Chris and Michaela Ward Meehan intended developing the site ''immediately''.
