The group behind plans for a $220 million Haast-Hollyford toll road in South Westland will spell out their proposal to the local authorities involved at a meeting in Greymouth this afternoon.
The meeting is being hosted by the West Coast Regional Council and will have representatives present from the Buller, Westland and Grey District Councils.
Some Southland district councillors will attend while others, including Mayor Gary Tong, will join via a video link.
Haast-Hollyford Highway Ltd project chairman Durham Havill said this week the meeting would be addressed by John Lunbeck and James Wong, from financiers Australian JCP Investment Partners, and Woody Blakely, from Christchurch company Blakely Construction.
Individual meetings with the region's mayors were also being held this week.
Mr Havill said the meetings would be given a ''full breakdown'' of the financial projections, details of the construction issues and an update on the ''missing'' 35km of road reserve through the remote wilderness area of the Fiordland National Park.
Mr Havill, a former Westland mayor, said he had hoped to convince the Solicitor-general to reinstate the stretch of road reserve removed from maps by a Department of lands and survey ''administrative error''.
However, he told the Otago Daily Times yesterday it was likely the matter would have to be settled in court.
His research showed the road was vested in the Westland County Council in the early 1970s but it ''disappeared'' in 1976 ''without any form of legal authority''.
Mr Havill believed there was potential to claim compensation of at least $300,000 from the Government for the delays caused.
''All we need is the road line back on the map and we'll be straight in for a resource consent.
''We've got everything else sorted.''
The proposal to build the 98km road linking the West Coast more directly with Milford Sound also has Chinese involvement through the Xinjan Bintuan Construction company.
