Applications for new Wanaka residential subdivisions keep on coming, despite the fears of a recession.
A subsidiary company of Queenstown-based John Darby Partners Ltd has lodged a resource consent application for a 43-lot rural residential subdivision for about 138ha of land near the Clutha River outlet.
East Wanaka Land Trust Holdings Ltd wants to create 40 residential building platforms of about 400sq m each on land bordered by Outlet Rd and Aubrey Rd in Wanaka.
The remaining three lots (13.8ha) will be vested as council reserve land and used as biking and walking trails.
A tentative title for the new subdivision, from the resource consent application, is Riverhead Park.
The 43-allotment application will replace an existing resource consent to develop 63 sections at the site.
East Wanaka Land Trust Holdings' application proposes larger lot sizes (between 1ha and 8.6ha).
It also makes greater use of land at the northern part of the rural-residential and rural general zoned subject site.
The proposed Riverhead Park lies within the Wanaka Structure Plan's inner growth boundaries and 5.94ha of the site will be vested as public roads.
The land is undulating pastures split by rows of pine tree shelter belts. A disused sawmill is on the site.
It is near the intersection of Aubrey Rd and Outlet Rd.
The company's application states it has consulted the Wanaka Cycling Club and Upper Clutha Tracks Trust.
The groups identified four desired trail links through Riverhead Park which should be maintained and formalised, including a trail from Aubrey Rd to the Outlet and Clutha River, a trail from mountain-biking area Plantation [Sticky] Forest to Outlet Rd, and a link west through to the Kirimoko Block area.
