Gibbston Valley Station (GVS) lodged a 16-page amendment to its subdivision and land use consent with Lakes Environmental last week in response to requests for more information and issues raised by public submissions.
The changes were within the scope of the original application.
GVS representative Joanne Dowd, of Mitchell Partnerships, submitted the intended bus service would link the station with Queenstown Airport and central Queenstown, based on the expectation of daily visitors from those locations and guests wanting to go into town.
A bus bay and manoeuvring area was planned on-site.
The Gibbston Valley Trail was an initiative of the Gibbston Community Association, which would apply for trail consent independently.
Ms Dowd said GVS volunteered to incorporate the dual-use trail into the resort's area, depending on the outcome of its resource consent application.
The trail would lead to hitherto inaccessible margins of the Kawarau River.
GVS offered to provide public easements allowing for the realignment of the trail over 3.5km of its land.
The station submitted it intended to re-establish short tussock grassland, indigenous shrubs, beech forest and wetland associations on 127ha within the property.
Land management would be based on the conservation management plan prepared by Natural Solutions For Nature Ltd at the request of GVS.
Planting would be in stages aligned with the station's development, which would take five to 10 years to complete.
It was proposed to source water, at an estimated demand peak of 1435cu m a day, from the Kawarau River for use in the resort and for vineyard irrigation.
GVS' application to the Otago Regional Council was being processed for a right to take river water because the proposed volume was more than permitted under the Otago regional plan.
Future development of residential units would require controlled activity consent according to the Gibbston Character Zone definitions of the partially operative district plan.
The Otago Regional Council's submission was concerned about land instability and flooding/alluvial fans.
The council wanted further information on flood inundation and erosion of proposed wastewater dispersal areas.
Ms Dowd wrote that a report from environmental and geotechnical engineers Tonkin and Taylor Ltd would be submitted to the ORC and Lakes Environmental by November 15.
The New Zealand Transport Agency had not objected to the proposed underpass and was comfortable for detailed design information to follow in due course.
The complex would be accessed at two points, one on the south side of State Highway 6 and the existing access to the north of the highway.
The proposed equestrian facility had been dropped.
