It was able to remain open over the Christmas holiday period and since then under an Environment Court decision in December, which granted Mr Jones a stay on an abatement notice issued by the council.
The November 30 notice ordered Mr Jones to cease operating visitor accommodation at the camping ground, which did not have resource consent.
But Judge Jon Jackson in the Environment Court granted a stay on the abatement notice for Mr Jones to file a resource consent application by January 31 to use the land as a motor camp.
The consent application was filed on December 15.
The court also directed that Mr Jones' appeal against the notice be set down for a prehearing conference as soon as possible after January 31.
Council planning manager David Campbell yesterday said there had been no further action by the Environment Court on determining whether the abatement notice should be lifted completely or put back in place.
"They [the court] may park it until the resource consent has been processed," he said.
The council had sought further information from Mr Jones in relation to the consent, which would "probably be notified" for public submissions.
Mr Jones has been attempting for more than a decade to obtain consent for the camping ground, on the south side of Kakanui next to the Kakanui River. The current issue is over access to the camping ground.
