Eight commissioners have been appointed to hear submissions on the Queenstown Lakes District Council's proposed district plan next year.
The commissioners, who were confirmed at last month's council meeting in Queenstown are: Brad Coombs, Yvette Couch-Lewis, David McMahon, Bob Nixon, Trevor Robinson, Paul Rodgers, Mark St Clair and Jane Taylor.
Council communications manager Michele Poole said the council would consider making one further appointment next week.
Each commissioner would be part of a team of three, sitting with a councillor and independent hearings chairman Denis Nugent.
Hearings were scheduled to run from February until July.
Ms Poole said the council received more than 800 submissions on the proposed plan. A two-week period of further submissions is under way, and closes on December 18.
More than a third of the submissions sought rezoning for parcels of rural land. The council had produced a map showing areas proposed for rezoning.
Planning and development acting general manager Tony Avery said the map, available on the council's website, had been updated since it was released with extra properties that had been "inadvertently missed''.
● The council has extended the deadline for people to make a further submission.
Further submissions were to have closed on Wednesday, December 16, but will instead close on December 18.
Mr Avery said the decision had been made in light of the large number of original submissions and the short 10-day timeframe specified in the Resource Management Act for making further submissions.
The extension would also give people slightly more time to digest the large number of rezoning requests.
