Mountain Scene
April 18, 2021
Mark Price
Mountain Scene has given me space for just 400 words.
Thanks, Tracey. [You’re welcome, Ed.]
The plan sets out the big-picture future for the district over the next 30 years.
It’s tempting to take the picky path and note the document’s clogged with pages of data-gobbling photographs of a landscape we’re all thoroughly familiar with.
It’s tempting to point out its annoying planner jargon – the ‘‘transformational shifts’’, the ‘‘overarching goals’’, and ‘‘travel demand initiatives’’.
And, it’s sad it has clip art children of the future playing on clip art digital grass surrounded by clip art four-storey blocks of flats.
Friday, 16 April 2021, 1:31 pm
Much-needed affordable housing for the Queenstown Lakes
District is on the way, after the Queenstown Lakes District
Council (QLDC) approved the transfer of land in Arrowtown to
the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT) for
$1.
The approval was signed late last month and is a
key step in allowing the land, on Jopp Street, to be
developed into a mixture of affordable rentals. This will
include an allocation for elderly housing and Secure Home
properties.
QLDC Chief Executive Mike Theelen said the
move was a “milestone” in helping bring additional
affordable housing to the district.
“The transfer
The bypass would include cycling and walking connections. It was expected the project would provide 477 direct full-time equivalent jobs and 702 indirect jobs during the construction phase. The Queenstown Lakes District Council had been talking about building the road to bypass the town centre for more than 30 years. The total project was expected to have a budget of more than $140 million. Queenstown Lakes District Council infrastructure general manager Peter Hansby said the Government approval was a big step forward for the project. It was expected stage one of construction would begin on July 1, although there was still design work to complete and land acquisitions to finalise.
Wanaka Autumn Apple Drive puts foraged apples to good use
11 Apr, 2021 11:00 PM
2 minutes to read
Foraged apples put to good use. Video / ODT
Otago Daily Times
By: Kerrie Waterworth
A community event to celebrate the autumn apple harvest, and with a focus on preserving surplus produce, brought together more than 70 people in Wanaka at the weekend.
From primary schoolchildren to the elderly they chopped, pressed or cooked the donated and foraged fruit to make apple chutney and pure apple juice at the seventh Wanaka Autumn Apple Drive at Rippon Hall on Saturday.
Wastebusters project manager and one of the event organisers, Sophie Ward, said it was seeing so many apple trees around Wanaka with fruit falling to the ground and going to waste that prompted the first Wanaka Apple Drive more than seven years ago.
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