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NZTA REFUSES IMPOSSIBLE PLANNING CONDITION FROM QLDC

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by Peter Newport - Sep 07, 2024

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The NZTA has refused to comply with a resource management planning condition
that requires a new Howards Drive roundabout to be somehow connected to another
roundabout over three kilometres away.

The new roundabout will replace the junction of Howards Drive and SH6/Ladies
Mile but in a QLDC Planning Decision the NZTA was told to make sure that no new
construction would be required when an additional road was added to the junction
of SH6 and Hawthorne Drive - a junction over 3 kilometres to the west.

In a rather terse response from the NZTA in Wellington the agency's principal
planner Helen Dempster pointed out to the QLDC that Hawthorne Drive was not in
the Howards Drive roundabout project area, and in any case the condition would
not be acceptable.

Not amused. NZTA's letter to the QLDC makes it clear that the resource
management condition is impossible and "an error."

Surprisingly the QLDC then forwarded the complete NZTA letter to a large variety
of stakeholders without realising the error, or NZTA's rejection of the planning
condition.

The exchange of documents happened late last year with no obvious
acknowledgement by QLDC of the error since then in the council's E-Docs system.

Problems with the Arterial Road (Stage 1) project in terms of cost and
management have attracted widespread community criticism of the QLDC's ability
to manage complex roading projects.



A graphic representation of the planned Howards Drive roundabout - which is
nowhere near the junction of SH6 and Hawthorne Drive.

The council is being paid an undisclosed management fee by NZTA to control the
controversial $250 million BP junction project that is expected to take four
years to complete.

A recent report by QLDC staff says that many parts of Queenstown's roading
system are nearing their maximum capacity including the Kawarau Bridge that is
the sole access from Frankton to the new southern corridor. Ladies Mile has also
been identified by QLDC staff as being a crisis point in the near future due to
severe congestion.

Main image: The Howards Drive proposed roundabout is over 3 kilometres away from
the SH6/Hawthorne Drive junction making a QLDC planning condition impossible to
comply with. (Satellite map: Google Earth.)

 




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