A council planner has recommended declining an application to subdivide a property on Faulks Rd, Wanaka, into three separate lots.
Jared and Amanda Nichol want to subdivide the 3.25ha property, which has one house on it and is about 230m from the Cardrona River.
A report, containing the application, recommendation, planning reports, and a single submission, will be discussed by a hearing panel chaired by independent commissioners Wendy Baker and Bob Nixon in Wanaka on Monday.
A landscape assessment by Vivian + Espie's Paul Smith said the ''site and its surroundings are within a Visual Amenity Landscape (VAL) of the Rural General Zone that takes in the large valley floor area of the Clutha Basin''.
Queenstown Lakes District Council planner Andrew Woodford said he believed residential intensification on the property would ''compromise the natural and Arcadian pastoral nature of the surrounding visual amenity landscape'' and could ''result in more than unacceptable effects on the landscape in terms of cumulative effects''.
The application received one submission, from the Upper Clutha Environmental Society, which opposed the proposal in its entirety.
The society said the adverse effects of the proposal were significant and the applicant had not meaningfully avoided, remedied or mitigated effects.
Three neighbouring properties on Faulks Rd and Maxwell Rd provided written approval of the proposal.
-By Sean Nugent
