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Queenstown Lakes Mayor Vanessa van Uden and district council chief executive Adam Feeley will help manage the reintegration of Lakes Environmental board activities back into the council.

Disruption to car parks in the Queenstown central business district can be expected in the coming weeks as the Queenstown Lakes District Council works to finish all scheduled projects before winter.

Read the Queenstown Lakes District Council report on Lakes Environmental and Lakes Leisure and the decision to bring the council-controlled organisations (CCOs) in-house seems obvious and sound.

The entire Lakes Leisure board resigned yesterday after finding themselves in an ''untenable position''.

Governance costs of more than $730,000 would be avoided if the regulatory activities of Lakes Environmental and Lakes Leisure were provided within the Queenstown Lakes District Council.

More than 100 employees face an uncertain future after the Queenstown Lakes District Council yesterday decided to disestablish Lakes Leisure Ltd and Lakes Environmental Ltd.

A Proposal to provide 2400 homes in an area larger than central Queenstown will be opened to public consultation after a Queenstown Lakes District Council subcommittee unanimously accepted the private plan change request yesterday.

The Queenstown Lakes District Council says it has decided against adopting an ''alarmist approach'' to the Government's consultation over earthquake-prone buildings and believes more work needs to be done on details about assessment, risk and strengthening.

A company involved in Frankton's development saga has hit back at claims the Queenstown Lakes District Council is ignoring community views.

Complaints have been received by the Queenstown Lakes District Council regarding ''overparking'' in residential streets in Frankton.