Developer Domain Acres has submitted a resource consent application for a 67-lot residential subdivision near the corner of Domain and Cemetery Roads in Lake Hāwea. 

It wants to turn an existing, titled subdivision of 17 one acre (4,000sqm) lots into a series of smaller lots.

If the resource consent application is approved, the new lots will range from 800m2-1900m2.

The existing subdivision, created by Streats Developments, is known as ‘Lost Burn’ and the more intensive development of the site has been long in the works, the applicant said.

“The original developer of the subject sites always intended for this tract of land to be developed to the proposed minimum 800m² density and had designed his original…layout and infrastructure to specifically enable this.”

A change in zoning has now enabled the possibility of the long-sought-after subdivision of the existing development.

The development site was previously zoned rural residential - an exception to Lake Hāwea’s former urban growth boundary of Cemetery Road because it was consented before the community identified Cemetery Road as its preferred boundary.

In May, the Hāwea Urban Growth boundary was extended to Domain Road and the site was rezoned lower density suburban residential. 

The applicant said with Timsfield and Longview subdivisions nearby “the proposed development would form part of that urban fabric”.

“Over time it is likely that the land to the south and west of the subject site would likely be developed to the density proposed or greater, at which point the development of the site will be completely absorbed into the surrounding urban area.”

All owners within the subdivision, aside from one, wish to subdivide their sections, and Domain Acres has submitted the resource consent application both on their behalf and for the four sections it owns.

Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) is currently considering Domain Acres’ application.

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