Progress on two large-scale Queenstown developments is gathering pace.
Resource consent applications have been lodged for both the second stage of a controversial Fernhill housing development and a 41-lot visitor accommodation complex above Aspen Grove.
The first application, for 60 residential units, is part of the Jade Lake Queenstown project.
Jade Lake Queenstown is designed to accommodate 120 houses and units over 2.2 hectares, including the innovative ''Bridge House'' which will span a gully.
Twenty properties have already been consented, 18 hitting the market earlier this year.
Prices ranged from $950,000 for two-bedroom apartments and $1.5million to $1.55million for terrace apartments, to $2million to $2.8million for the duplexes.
A consent application has been lodged with the Queenstown Lakes District Council for stage 2, which comprises 60 residential units over 17,185sqm, and adjoins Greenstone Pl to the north, and Wynyard Cres to the east.
The units will be a mix of duplex, terraces, stand-alone and unit title-style housing.
According to the application, there will also be 44 visitor accommodation units in two buildings suspended above the gully by bridges.
The development is headed by Queenstown-based Singaporean Homy Yang, project manager David Wang, who has worked on more than 30 international projects, and a design team led by Auckland-based OZAC Architects.
When first floated last year, several neighbours voiced concerns over the scale of the development and the effect on Wynyard Cres traffic given it was already congested due to on-street parking.
At the time, Brian Marquand, who had lived there since 1980, said the complex was ''just not on''.
''The infrastructure in Fernhill along that area is at its max now - they're always repairing water pipes and the road.''
Work on stage 1 was expected to be completed by the end of next year.
The second application is for Broadview Villas Ltd.
Plans for that development include seven apartment blocks featuring 40 guest units, as well as a reception area.
The development is fronted by Arrowtown developer Wayne Foley, who is the New Zealand director of a Malaysian group which has bought the 32,000sqm Broadview Rise site.
The architect is Dunedin's Mason & Wales.
-Additionally reported by Philip Chandler
