The company behind a proposed four-lot subdivision including two 1000sq m residential building platforms at Criffel Deer Farm near Wanaka has indicated it will make modifications to the proposal, after a Lakes Environmental planner recommended its consent application be refused.
Commissioners Jane Taylor and Sally Middleton considered the proposal at a hearing in Wanaka last Friday, where Criffel Deer Ltd representative Duncan White advised the applicant could modify the proposal.
The changes would include a reduction in the size of the two building platforms in order to increase the separation between those lots, and to reduce the overall scale and bulk of any dwellings on the building platforms.
A condition to ensure all buildings and ancillary buildings were located within the building platforms could also be included, along with a condition requiring a basic landscape concept plan be submitted prior to any works commencing, Mr White said.
The commissioners were of the preliminary view that if consent were to be granted, the maximum height of the proposed dwellings could be increased from 5m to 6m without creating any additional adverse effects.
This would provide for the recommended increase in the floor level of 0.5m to accommodate the risk of flooding, and to allow some room for "architectural diversity in keeping with the Arcadian pastoral landscape of the surrounding environment and Central Otago landscapes generally".
The applicant has until April 5 to give written advice of the proposed changes and confirmation of ongoing affected persons' approval, already obtained for the original consent application.
