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Fears Queenstown housing development will worsen traffic woes

By Kim Moodie A 2000 home development proposed for a picturesque part of Queenstown is upsetting locals who want it moved elsewhere. The area of the proposed development. Photo: Queenstown Lakes District Council The Te Pūtahi Ladies Mile development proposes to add high density houses to the city s eastern entrance - near Lake Hayes. But community s pushing back, with some fearing it ll worsen heaving traffic jams. Queenstown councillors will today decide between two options - to keep working on a Council-led approach at a lower density of development - or halt work altogether while they try to solve the traffic problem.

Units appealing to investors

Mountain Scene By PHILIP CHANDLER Units in a luxury apartment building at Queenstown’s Arthurs Point are selling like hot cakes. La Residence du Parc, off Arthurs Point Road, near the Coronet Peak turnoff, was completed two years ago. It comprises two four-level, 24-unit buildings, one of which was sold down to individual investors before it was completed. The other building was held by the development company, Aedifice Queenstown Ltd, and leased to the neighbouring THC Nugget Point hotel, for visitor accommodation. Now that two-year lease is up, ‘Hotel Park Residence’, as it’s called, is now also being sold

Life of a colourful architect

Mountain Scene July 28, 2021 Murray Cockburn’s one of Queenstown’s real characters. A prolific architect who’s practised around New Zealand and the South Pacific for more than half a century, he can also claim to have renamed a Queenstown suburb. PHILIP CHANDLER visits him at his eccentric local home and learns about his exciting life and times If you expect architects to be a bit boring, you’ve not met Murray Cockburn. The 82-year-old who for 50 years has largely split his time and his architectural practice between Queenstown and Fiji is still designing houses despite being semi-retired. However, the bon vivant also continues playing the coin game, spoofing, with his mates,

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