A cluster of Queenstown Lakeview Holiday Park buildings will soon be on the move to Wanaka Lakeview Holiday Park to replace several "dilapidated" cabins recently retired from service after about 50 years.
Three distinctive blue buildings, each containing two self-contained tourist flats, will be trucked away from the holiday park in Queenstown's Brecon St over the next few weeks and taken to the Wanaka holiday park.
The move was an "interim measure" while the Queenstown Lakes District Council camp ground strategy 2006 was reviewed, council holiday park manager Greg Hartshorne said.
That review, which will determine the future of the district's council-owned camping grounds, is to be completed by 2014.
The Queenstown tourist flats, which were still in "very good order", would be on short-term lease to the Wanaka holiday park.
The space they left behind in Queenstown would be filled within the next couple of months by new cabins, which would be in keeping with the other more modern buildings at the park.
"It was an opportunity to help that park [in Wanaka] out in the meantime and at the same time bring this park [Queenstown] right up to scratch."
The relocated tourist flats would provide much-needed "quality accommodation" for families and other groups at the Wanaka holiday park as replacements for five existing cabins which had been there since the early 1960s and were now in an "awful state of repair".
Three of the old Wanaka cabins are scheduled to be removed today and the remaining two will be uplifted on Friday. One will go to Haast for use as a crib and two will be trucked to Cardrona, where one will be used by local curling enthusiasts.
