Classified as a "sensitive" landscape, Roys Peninsula is protected as a designated "outstanding natural feature"under the council's district plan.
While development on the rural general-zoned site is not prohibited, buildings and dwellings must adhere to strict guidelines in regards to possible visual, amenity and cumulative effects on the landscape.
Clevermaker Ltd, a company owned by Cardrona Valley residents Hil Stapper and Mario Kiesow, wants to build on a 24ha north-facing site, near the end of the northeastern headland.
A neighbouring property owner to the Clevermaker site - the Matukituki Trust - has been locked in a costly legal battle with the QLDC and the Upper Clutha Environmental Society to secure resource consent to build.
A planners report from Lakes Environmental Wanaka team leader Christian Martin has recommended that Ms Stapper and Mr Kiesow's proposed house be granted resource consent.
The couple's building platform proposal has secured support from the other 11 landowners and neighbouring property owners on Roys Peninsula, while 24 written submissions were received in support of the application.
The Upper Clutha Environmental Society (UCES) is the sole submitter opposed to the resource consent application for a 519sq m single-story decked dwelling, a 63sq m garage and associated earthworks of 1528cu m.
A proposed extensive revegetation programme for the Clevermaker site found favour in Mr Martin's report.
However, he recommended to commissioners Trevor Shiels and Lyal Cocks that they consider "carefully" the cumulative effects of buildings and the Clevermaker proposal.
"I am of the opinion that Roys Peninsula has reached, or is very close to reaching, the point beyond which further development will breach a threshold at which landscape character may be unavoidably degraded," Mr Martin said.
A two-day resource consent hearing has been set down for June 22, at Edgewater Resort in Wanaka, to hear the Clevermaker Ltd application.
The Matukituki Trust's main beneficiary, Auckland businessman Greg Marler, secured resource consent last November to build a dwelling and associated buildings on the prominent eastern end of Roys Peninsula.
The UCES appealed the council's decision and that matter is yet to be heard by the Environmental Court.
