Two new entrance signs to Wanaka, part-funded by the Queenstown Lakes District Council, will be unveiled in July, it was announced yesterday.
The news came less than a month after the council said entrance signage for Queenstown was ''not a priority''.
The signs for Wanaka will feature schist stone and metal. They will
be on the north side of the state highway just before Puzzling World, and on the west side of Cardrona Valley Rd next to Oakridge Resort.
The project is a collaboration of representatives from the Wanaka Residents Association, Upper Clutha and Wanaka Lions Clubs, Rotary Club of Wanaka, Lake Wanaka Tourism and the Wanaka Community Board, who formed a working group.
The cost is about $10,000, with half the funding contributed by the Lions, Rotary and the residents association and half from the council.
Last month, Allied Press publication Queenstown Times asked the council why there were no signs to mark the boundary of Queenstown.
Communications manager Meaghan Miller said then such signage was ''not seen as a priority at this time''.
Ms Miller reiterated that position yesterday, and said ''where the community wants to drive something, council will consider supporting it. In this case the project was very much community driven''.
