QLDC adopts plans after 'fraught' process

A plan to make changes to unformed legal roads near Hawea Flat was adopted by the Queenstown Lakes District Council at its meeting in Queenstown yesterday.

Mayor Vanessa Van Uden moved the council adopt recommendations from principal planner infrastructure Denis Mander, describing the process he had been involved in as ''particularly fraught''.

Negotiations, begun in 2012, had involved the Clutha Fisheries Trust, the Upper Clutha Tracks Trust and dairy farmer Mr Jim Cooper.

The council approved ''the principles'' of an agreement between the parties which would improve access to the Clutha River for fishers, the ability for a track to be formed for cycling, an easement for a council pipeline between Hawea and its Project Pure water treatment plant at Wanaka Airport, and the stopping of roads ''internal'' to Devon Dairy Farms Ltd.

Mr Mander's report to the council said the proposal would be implemented using the Public Works Act.

''Mr Cooper's support for the agreement is dependent upon use of [the Act] procedure as opposed to Local Government Act processes that would be more expensive and time-consuming.''

mark.price@odt.co.nz

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