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QueenstownJuly 1

Little fanfare as council absorbs organisations

A decade after Lakes Leisure was formed, and five years after Lakes Environmental began, both organisations were absorbed into the Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) yesterday with little fanfare.

QueenstownJune 28

QLDC concerns

Staff affected by the Queenstown Lakes District Council's organisational review have voiced concerns to the Southern Local Government Officers Union.

QueenstownMay 1

Mayor resigns as director of CCO

With her husband appointed acting chief executive of Lakes Environmental less than three weeks ago, Queenstown Lakes Mayor Vanessa van Uden has resigned as a director of the council-controlled organisation - which is being absorbed within the council.

QueenstownFebruary 19

Consents rise spurs benefits

The number of houses being built in Queenstown and Wanaka is increasing, which is having positive effects on Lakes Environmental's financial report.

QueenstownSeptember 23

Services arm says it will boost online transactions

More services have been made available online, more will follow and counter hours will be reduced in a bid to recover costs at Lakes Environmental.

QueenstownMay 3

Directors offer 'varied skill sets'

Two new directors will take up positions on the Lakes Environmental Ltd board this month, replacing Tony Hill and Alan Bickers.

QueenstownMarch 16

Submission on police plan

An application to redesignate reserve land to build a new Wanaka police station has attracted just one submission, which opposes the facility.

QueenstownFebruary 21

Lakes Environmental reports deficit of more than $56,000

The past six months were "much tighter than it has ever been" for Lakes Environmental Limited, which yesterday reported an operating deficit of more than $56,000.

QueenstownDecember 9

Consent application for new police station

A resource consent application to build a new police station in Wanaka has been lodged with Lakes Environmental and construction may begin as early as February.

QueenstownDecember 9

Subdivision plan publicly notified

An application by Criffel Deer Ltd to subdivide land on Mt Barker Rd, near Wanaka, was publicly notified this week.

QueenstownMay 15

Riverside householder raises jet-boat concerns

Ecojet's plans for a new Queenstown jet-boating and water-taxi service have been questioned by Jo Boyd, a fourth-generation resident of the lower Kawarau River concerned about the proposal's environmental impact.

QueenstownNovember 25

First Wakatipu Trails Trust's resource consent application lodged

The first resource consent application for the Wakatipu Trails Trust's planned network of public walking and cycling trails has been lodged with Lakes Environmental.

QueenstownNovember 11

Noise control under way

Lakes Environmental regulatory and corporate manager Lee Webster is comfortable with the steps the Wanaka Caltex petrol station is taking to minimise the noise from its new drive-through car wash.

QueenstownOctober 17

Move for 3G towers at Glenorchy

Vodafone New Zealand says customer demand for increased cellphone coverage at Glenorchy prompted its application for resource consents to build communications towers at Greenstone Station Rd on Mt Nicholas on the western side of Lake Wakatipu.

QueenstownOctober 10

Green light for Three Parks work

Earthworks are about to start on one of Wanaka's most ambitious commercial, residential and retail projects - the massive Three Parks development opposite the Ballantyne Rd industrial area.

QueenstownOctober 7

$125m project for Five Mile

A deal to put a sports shelter on the border of Queenstown's failed Five Mile development is not a sweetener to ensure a new $125 million, 38,000sq m retail complex at the Frankton Flats site gets approval, outgoing Queenstown Lakes Mayor Clive Geddes says.

QueenstownSeptember 23

Opposition to development growing

Opposition to a proposed luxury residential development at Damper Bay, near Wanaka, continues to mount with more than 50 public submissions lodged against a resource consent application by a group of businessmen.

QueenstownSeptember 9

New buildings in Wanaka soak up consents

New buildings in Wanaka account for about half the resource consents, valued at $107 million, approved by Lakes Environmental for the past year, according to figures released yesterday.

QueenstownAugust 13

Developments dismay landscape architect

As residential subdivisions in Wanaka continue to expand the town's boundaries, the approach of some developers has saddened the Queenstown Lakes District Council's top landscape consultant.

QueenstownJuly 9

No action yet to recover debt

Lakes Environmental does not intend engaging debt collectors to recover money owed by the developers behind a controversial proposed retirement village in Wanaka.

QueenstownMay 23

Public say on flights

The public will have a chance to have its say on whether a Queenstown skydiving company should be allowed to have more flights per day at its airstrip on Remarkables Station, off State Highway 6.

QueenstownMay 7

83% of consents processed on time

More than 80% of resource consent applications in the Queenstown Lakes district are processed within the statutory timeframe.

QueenstownApril 15

No need for public to be notified

Consent for a new 24-hour McDonald's restaurant at Frankton was granted without its being publicly notified because the activity was controlled and anticipated.