Skyline to provide 449 car parks

Mark Quickfall.
Mark Quickfall.
Skyline Enterprises is planning a 449-capacity car park building for its proposed $100million gondola complex redevelopment in Queenstown.

The four or five-level building, behind a rebuilt bottom terminal on Brecon St, would be for gondola patrons, staff and other Ben Lomond reserve users only.

Skyline last week told the Environment Court it will apply for a resource consent once it gets a sign-off from neighbouring Kiwi Birdlife Park.

The company has also applied to the Queenstown Lakes District Council for a new reserve lease for the building.

When Skyline initially unveiled its redevelopment plans last year, it did not provide for any visitor parking.

Following public submissions, however, it announced in April that it would seek consent for a car park building for at least 207 cars, costing about $10million.

However the Environment Court, which is hearing the resource consent application, rather than the QLDC, ordered Skyline to provide 350 parks within a five-minute walk.

''That's not such an easy thing to achieve,'' Skyline chairman Mark Quickfall said.

He confirmed the company would build its own car parking building, but has chosen to go for 449 parks, rather than only 350.

''We're trying to look ahead,'' Mr Quickfall said.

''Once we put the bottom terminal up, to ever add to the 350 would be near-impossible.''

He expects the larger building will now cost more than $20million.

It will not be free, he said.

''It's a huge investment - we'll need to charge something to get a return.''

-By Philip Chandler

scoop@scene.co.nz

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