Golf resort bid to protect border land
One of New Zealand’s biggest golf resorts is fighting to limit developments on its border at a hearing to consider plans to protect rural land in the Wakatipu Basin.
Arrowtown’s Millbrook Resort made several submissions to a hearing panel at Copthorne Hotel in Queenstown on Thursday, raising concerns about Queenstown Lakes District Council’s proposed district plan to create a rural amenity zone and a lifestyle precinct in the area.
Ben O’Malley, director of property and development at Millbrook, told the panel if the proposals go ahead the council “may enable an inappropriate development on its boundaries”.
Mr O’Malley said he had “worked tirelessly” with the team at Millbrook to preserve the resort’s landscape and visual amenity.
“Millbrook has created a high amenity environment.
“We are not too happy about this.”
The company opposed submissions from various parties on land bordering the resort who it said were seeking to be included in either the Millbrook resort zone or the proposed lifestyle precinct.
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