Alan Cutler, chairman of the Wanaka Hawea Reserves Trust formed to fight the building proposal, submitting on the new site, said while it was "heartening'' the Wanaka Watersports Facility Trust had taken on board opposition to the initial proposal, "the amendments do not address the raft of concerns raised at the hearing''.
"Essentially, the proposed site is inappropriate for a building of the scale and use as applied for.''
At a resource consent hearing in March and April, independent commissioners Robert Nixon and David Clarke considered 298 submissions in favour of the building and 741 opposed.
Last month, the commissioners asked for more details about the watersports trust's suggested "minor re-siting'' of the building.
In response, watersports trust planner Duncan White has provided a "package of information'' about a new location 9.5m to the east and 5m to the south of the original site.
Mr White said the amended location reduced the number of trees required to be removed from 11 to five - three Douglas firs and two eucalypts.
"The proposed location enables the retention of all the trees along the edge of the lake and thus will maintain the existing sweep of vegetation along the landward edge of the beach.''
Mr White said the watersports trustees preferred the original site, but considered the amended site "to be an acceptable compromise''.
The building design had been modified slightly to suit the amended location.
People have until June 20 to have their say on the new site and by yesterday six comments were listed on the Queenstown Lakes District Council's website.
Mr Cutler submitted that while the retention of some lake margin trees would assist in partially screening the building from the north "it will do little to assist in screening from southern, western and even eastern aspects''.
"From close proximity, the proposed building would still be a prominent and even a visually dominant man-made element in an otherwise natural setting.
"Outstanding natural landscape values would still be significantly compromised and the revision still fails to comply with many of the assessment matters in the [district plan].''
A council planner is expected to have completed an assessment of the new site by July 4, and the watersports trust then has until July 18 to provide its right of reply.
