Company wants 31-lot subdivision

Developers want to build a 31-lot subdivision on this 22ha Hawea Flat site, about 15km from Wanaka. Photo by Matthew Haggart.
Developers want to build a 31-lot subdivision on this 22ha Hawea Flat site, about 15km from Wanaka. Photo by Matthew Haggart.
Developers have earmarked Hawea Flat as the latest Wanaka satellite community for residential expansion.

Camphill Ltd, a company with five directors - Stephen Dickey, Peter Joyce, Robin Patterson, John Ruddenklau, of Wanaka, and Stephen Winter, of Queenstown - are behind a proposed 31-lot subdivision.

The company has applied for resource consent to develop a 22ha farmland site opposite the Hawea Flat Primary School on Camphill Rd.

Proposed lot sizes range between 2.52ha and 0.4ha for the site.

The proposed subdivision is on land north of the primary school, a childcare centre, and the Hawea Flat community hall on the northern side of Camphill Rd.

The site, which is zoned rural lifestyle under the Queenstown Lakes district plan, has three existing resource consents for nine large properties.

The developers propose water supply to the lots will be provided by way of drilled bores.

Several existing properties in the area with potable bores drilled to about 12 metres deep ran dry during the summer.

This was after a period of very low rainfall throughout the winter and spring of 2008.

The developers have offered, as part of their consent application, that existing properties in the arid area can connect to the proposed subdivision's communal water supply.

matthew.haggart@odt.co.nz.