Proposed travellers accommodation for more than 40 people between Becks and Lauder will intrude into the skyline when viewed from parts of the Otago Central Rail Trail.
The Central Otago District Council has received an application for land-use consent to establish 11 accommodation units, with a combined capacity for 44 people, on land subject to a flood hazard along State Highway 85.
Applicant D. Judge, represented by Paterson Pitts Partners Ltd, required consent as building on land subject to a hazard was non-compliant with the council's operative district plan, and the provision of travellers accommodation for more than five paying guests within the rural resource area was a discretionary activity.
One of the proposed units would affect the skyline when viewed from parts of the rail trail.
The development would also breach the council's sight distance rules between SH85 and the entrance to the units.
Submissions on the proposal close at 4pm on February 11.
The council received an application for resource consent for a proposed seven-lot subdivision at Broom St, Naseby.
Mt Ida Developments Ltd applied for consent to create the residential lots, ranging in size from 1377sq m to 1925sq m, within a rural resource area.
The creation of lots with an average area of less than 8ha on rural resource area land is non-compliant with the council's operative district plan.
Land-use consent is also sought to construct dwellings on each lot, which would breach yard requirements, cause setbacks in relation to water, and require earthworks in relation to riparian margins.
Submissions also close at 4pm on February 11.
