The second stage of the Alpine Meadows development is in progress, with a resource consent application lodged for almost four dozen new residential lots, which will add more homes to the fast growing ‘South Wānaka’ area.

The 42.2 hectare Alpine Meadows stretches from behind the Ballantyne Road industrial area through to Orchard Road and, once completed, the development will feature 370 homes.

It is surrounded by other new residential subdivisions: Heritage Park, Alpine Estates and Orchard Park are all in close proximity and in varying stages of completion.

Stage two of Alpine Meadows is billed to feature 45 residential lots and two industrial lots.

The second stage of the development, a joint venture between Willowridge Development and Orchard Road Holdings, will provide the “missing piece” of the roading network in the area, according to application documents.

It will “connect Cardrona Valley Road with Ballantyne Road through an extension of Avalon Station Drive, as well as providing another connection from Deans Drive to Avalon Station Drive”.

Ten sections are proposed to be 600m2, smaller than the low density residential zone provides for, but “consistent with the minimum lot size for surrounding development occurring under the PDP”, application documents said.

Alpine Meadows fits within Wānaka’s southwestern boundary as described by the 2021 spatial plan, which said Wānaka’s growth should be contained and consolidated within the boundaries of the two rivers, the Clutha and the Cardrona.

Queenstown Lakes District Council is considering the Alpine Meadows stage two application.

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