Developer objections to consent conditions for a controversial lakeside development in Queenstown will be heard today.
Lakes Edge Developments received non-notified approval late last year for a 55-lot residential subdivision over four hectares adjoining the Hilton Queenstown site.
The company, associated with developers Chris and Michaela Meehan, objects to conditions relating to construction site management, references to legal roads which it wants amended to private roads, reinstating right of ways for the Queenstown Lakes District Council and reworked staging of the development.
Today's hearing is before independent commissioner David Clarke.
Consultant planner Jane Sinclair recommends upholding the first objection in part, and upholding the other three points.
Ms Sinclair's report noted adjoining landowner Kawarau Village Holdings and Hilton Queenstown Resort and Spa and the Double Tree Hotel operators Kawarau Village want the non-notified consent decision quashed.
The companies lodged a judicial review in the High Court last month.
However, the court challenge did not derail the council's obligation to deal with the objections.
The Lakes Edge site used to be part of the $1 billion Kawarau Falls Station luxury resort mooted by Auckland developer Nigel McKenna, before his companies were put into receivership by Australian lender BOS International in 2009, as the global financial crisis started to bite.
