The proposal was publicly notified last month, when Mount Field Ltd sought subdivision consent to construct the facility, which would house up to 20 people and identify 14 new allotments and 12 residential building platforms.
The station covers more than 1768ha between Coronet Peak and Skippers Canyon, much of which is classified Outstanding Natural Landscape.
The application said the project would allow the station to diversify and achieve "ongoing viability".
The proposed ownership model would have each of the 14 lots defined and available for sale.
The new owners would acquire full property rights and secure a "right to roam" over the balance of Mt Dewar Station. In return, each lot owner would be covenanted to annually contribute a fee to pay for the Mt Dewar Station land management regime. Wilding pine control would be a "major priority".
Among the submitters were NZSki Ltd, the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, the Department of Conservation (partially opposed), the Wilding Conifer Group Incorporated Ltd (neutral), the Otago Regional Council and the Greenslade family, past owners of Mt Dewar.
Elizabeth Greenslade said the family "strongly object to the concept and the reasoning of the application". Her submission said the application contravened the Resource Management Act 1991; and Mt Dewar was zoned an Outstanding Natural Landscape "and therefore must be inviolable and sacrosanct".
The application was not sympathetic to the natural environment; would downgrade the physical appearance of the "iconic, scenic landscape" and would destroy the natural setting and scenic vistas.
"Visibility will be broad-reaching from Coronet Peak Resort, [the] Crown Range, the Malaghans [and] Speargrass roads, Lower Shotover, Lake Johnson, Tuckers Beach and Remarkables Ski Resort."
Mrs Greenslade said Mt Field Ltd had "moved the goalposts" after consent was granted for one house to "lock off the block and clear wilding pines".
"The applicant's track record of stewardship is lacking and dismal with a chronic result.
"Wilding pine programme of eradication should not be a fresh bargaining tool, difficult to be enforced by 14 owners.
"Financial challenges in this Wakatipu area are historically documented, as are cyclic returns of wool and produce. Rural agribusinesses generally adapt, revise, look for stock or market improvements.
"Mt Field is a property development company, not an agribusiness.
"The property is leased out to another party [and] Mt Field compromised their productivity when it subdivided from the fertile Coronet Peak flatland.
"There is no justification for allowing subdivision based on farming's fluctuating profitability."
NZSki Coronet Peak Ski Area manager Hamish McCrostie said the company's concerns included the ingress and egress of traffic at the two proposed access points from the Coronet Peak access road, which may cause problems during winter with ice, snow and visibility.
"This would impede the flow of customer traffic to Coronet Peak ... which would impact on NZSki Ltd's business."
It also requested Mt Field Ltd provide "adequate bond" to cover any damage and/or disruption to the use of the Coronet Peak access road.
The NZHPT had no objection "in principal" to the proposed works. However, it was opposed to the application as it believed the Assessment of Environmental Effects did not adequately address the potential impacts of the proposed development on heritage values, particularly archaeological values.
Resident James Hall said in his submission his family was "most concerned" Mt Field was a commercial development, at odds with the intention of the zoning and could "negatively impact the natural rural beauty of Mt Dewar and Coronet Peak.
"We are also very concerned that if this application was allowed that it would form the `thin end of the wedge' in terms of future submissions for subdivisional development further across Mt Dewar and down the valley across Coronet Peak Station towards Arrowtown.
"Our concern does relate to our own interests, but we also feel that it represents concerns that this type of development is against the interests of preserving Queenstown and Arrowtown's rural countryside beauty, which is very much part of the attraction to the local area."
