Press Releases

Kiwi camps will continue operating in one of New Zealand's most desirable holiday locations, as the result of an extensive community consultation process, Queenstown Lakes District Council Mayor Clive Geddes said. "We began with a draft strategy, we held public meetings, we called for submissions a...Read More

The release today of a 10-year plan to tackle the onset of Lagarosiphon in Lake Wanaka is a national milestone in the battle to control the noxious lakeweed, Lake Wanaka Lagarosiphon Managers? Committee spokesman Chris Hawker said. "Lake Wanaka is a national treasure and it is therefore imperative ...Read More

The Queenstown Lakes District Council is currently considering whether to initiate a Plan Change for the land known as Peninsula Bay, at Beacon Point in Wanaka, CivicCorp principal policy Jenny Parker said. The Peninsula Bay land is included in the inner boundary of the Wanaka Structure Plan, adopt...Read More

A pollution incident today, that saw an unknown quantity of acrylic paint enter Horne Creek, is under investigation, CivicCorp enforcement principal manager Tim Francis said. The Council received a report that something was discolouring the creek this morning. "Lakes Contract Services was called a...Read More

The Queenstown Lakes District community has had enough of petty crime and vandalism, Queenstown Lakes District Council Mayor Clive Geddes said. Coming in the wake of snapped trees on Wanaka's Pembroke Park and Queenstown's Shotover Street, a random rural post box destruction spree and an escalation...Read More

The Queenstown Lakes District Council is seeking comment from the community on revised plans for Hotops Rise, QLDC parks manager Gordon Bailey said. The road reserve skirts the Queenstown Gardens and is heavily used as a walking track link, to and from the Central Business District. The Council's ...Read More

The Queenstown Lakes District Council parks and reserves team is working towards producing a tree bylaw or policy for the consideration of full Council, next month, QLDC director of parks Paul Wilson said. "This is a different layer of tree protection from the Heritage Plan Change. The Plan Change ...Read More

Three aging Lombardy poplars, posing a danger on St Omer Park will be felled prior to spring, Queenstown Lakes District Council parks manager Gordon Bailey said. After one of the poplars fell and crushed a car in January, specialised equipment in the form of tomography was brought in to effectively...Read More

The Queenstown Lakes District Council has formally voted to adopt the recommendation of the Project Pure Team to site the Wanaka Basin waste water treatment facility and land disposal fields at the western end of Wanaka Airport. "For the team, which has been working for two years to investigate the...Read More

Work on the much needed upgrading and landscaping the Wanaka Cemetery could commence in the Spring, pending approval from the Wanaka Community Board, Queenstown Lakes District Council parks manager Gordon Bailey said. "The board has been working towards the completion of the plans, which will see a...Read More