Mountain Scene
By TRACEY ROXBURGH
Queenstown’s council says demolition of the Queenstown Memorial Centre won’t happen until an alternative venue is secured.
City Hall’s applied to the government for resource consent and a notice of requirement for its arterials project under the Covid-19 Recovery (fast-track consenting) Act 2020 after that project, and the Queenstown CBD upgrade, secured $85 million in government funding.
The council’s applied to the government for consent and to authorise construction and use of an urban arterial route from Melbourne Street to the intersection with the Queenstown-Glenorchy Road.
In time that’ll require the demolition of the Memorial Centre, which has raised the ire of users.
Press Release – Otago Regional Council The results of a seismic mapping project on the bed of Lake Wnaka have provided further evidence of a likely active fault identified in 2019. The Otago Regional Council (ORC) commissioned NIWA to undertake the mapping in late 2019, after a desk-based …
The results of a seismic mapping project on the bed of Lake Wānaka have provided further evidence of a likely active fault identified in 2019.
The Otago Regional Council (ORC) commissioned NIWA to undertake the mapping in late 2019, after a desk-based review by GNS Science, also commissioned by ORC, identified the likely fault earlier that year.
Tuesday, 23 February 2021, 4:00 pm
The results of a seismic mapping project on the bed of
Lake Wānaka have provided further evidence of a likely
active fault identified in 2019.
The Otago Regional
Council (ORC) commissioned NIWA to undertake the mapping in
late 2019, after a desk-based review by GNS Science, also
commissioned by ORC, identified the likely fault earlier
that year.
The NW Cardrona fault was previously
thought to have run northeast from the Cardrona Valley,
through Albert Town to Hawea. GNS scientists now propose
that the fault runs northwest past the foot of Mt Alpha,
beneath part of the Wanaka township, and out under the
Debbie Jamieson/Stuff
The number of visitors to Queenstown has dropped significantly without overseas tourists. Thames dairy farmer Chris De Beer said it was the perfect place to visit with family. “Everything is here. You don’t need a car and there’s so much to do. I am glad there is something going on for the businesses,” he said. However, despite the support from domestic visitors, things are looking grim for the town which used to attract four million tourists each year, the majority in summer, Queenstown Chamber of Commerce acting general manager Craig Douglas said. “For many businesses it’s been quieter than expected, particular over Christmas . it picked up a bit for New Year but dropped off again afterwards.”
Mountain Scene
COMMUNITY.
In March, as this town, and our country, went into lockdown and the reality and ramifications of Covid-19 on the Whakatipu started to hit home,
Mountain Scene published a message on our front page, reminding us all our community was the most important thing.
This week’s
Scene cover photo was designed as a celebration of that community, one that as the days, weeks and months have passed by, has come together, growing stronger with every hit we’ve taken.
In that photo you’ll find representatives from as many different sectors as we could muster.
You’ll see fifth-generation Queenstowner Lachlan Arnold, 3, Maggie Kay, 5, who started school in a year where education moved from classrooms to living rooms, Wakatipu High dux Om Alva, 18, in his school uniform for the very last time and Bupa resident Noelene Kennedy, 89.