The Central Otago District Council's hearings panel heard five other applications for consents for various projects throughout the district at a meeting in Alexandra yesterday.
In separate reports, CODC planning consultant David Whitney recommended each application be granted, some subject to conditions.
All decisions relating to the granting of consent were reserved by the panel, with this information due for release within 15 working days.
• Transit New Zealand applied for consent to alter its designation of State Highway 8 at Maori Point Rd near Tarras, which would involve the development of a T-intersection with a right turn bay, and improved sight distances for vehicles entering and exiting Maori Point Rd from the highway.
• R. H. O. and E. A. Williams and T. J. Dunn applied for consent to review conditions of a subdivision on Swann Rd near Lowburn.
The subdivision was approved in 2004, with conditions including two relating to the construction of an esplanade strip along the Low Burn, nearby.
Mr Whitney recommended the conditions be deleted.
• Graeme and Janice Smith applied for subdivision consent to create four rural allotments at Northburn between Cromwell and Tarras, as well as land use consent to construct three dwellings on the site in the future.
The Little Orchard Trust applied for consent to create two allotments on Felton Rd at Bannockburn.
This was opposed by sole submitter Bell Investments Ltd, which stated rural land should not be divided into "small parcels".
• K. C. and J. C. Dickie applied for subdivision consent to create two allotments on a Short St property in Bannockburn.
Three opposing submissions were received.
• A seventh application scheduled to be heard, from Greenfield Rural Opportunities Ltd, was postponed at the applicant's request, panel chairman John Lane said.
Greenfield applied for retrospective land use consent for earthworks (tracking), on land subject to the Lake Onslow-Upper Manorburn landscape management area near Ettrick.
