The search for solutions to an accumulation of sludge is
looking promising, solid wastes manager Stefan Borowy told
the Queenstown Lakes District Council infrastructure services
committee this week.
A group of Wanaka landowners would be reassured the council
would protect their rights to an unrestricted water supply,
in accordance with an Environment Court ruling, the
Queenstown Lakes District Council's infrastructure committee
agreed this week.
When prominent New Zealand artist Rita Angus painted a
self-portrait in Wanaka in 1939, little did she know the
image would become the catalyst in arts patron John
Charrington's dream to build a multimillion-dollar art
gallery in the town.
The Wanaka Volunteer Fire Brigade is reminding the public to
ensure fires in outdoor cooking receptacles are extinguished,
after a fire was started this week by a pizza oven.
It is a question of who works for whom when it comes to
Queenstown Lakes District mayor Vanessa van Uden and Lakes
Environmental's Peter Laurenson's relationship.
Wanaka's
multimillion-dollar wastewater processing treatment plant
Project Pure has been officially handed over to the
Queenstown Lakes District Council.
A land swap has been agreed in principle to allow the
construction of the Frankton Flats eastern access road and
the Glenda Drive-State Highway 6 roundabout to progress.
A revised
Queenstown Airport Corporation (QAC) constitution has been
adopted, without lowering the board's $70 million transaction
consultation threshold, sought by two councillors.
An Environment Court ruling earlier this month has prevented
the Queenstown Lakes District Council from taking the unusual
step of calling evidence in opposition to its own resource
consent commissioners in an appeal against an approved
amusement park opposite Wanaka Airport.
