Integrating urban development within a sensitive landscape setting.

Queenstown Country Club is located on a tract of land off the Frankton-Ladies Mile Highway, between Lake Hayes and the Shotover River, Queenstown. Sanderson Group submitted an expression of interest (EOI) to the Queenstown Lakes District Council in April 2016 for a special housing area (SHA), which set out the comprehensive development of the site for a retirement village. Following approval of the SHA, Boffa Miskell continued to work with Sanderson Group to prepare the resource consent material. This was submitted to council in November 2016 and a hearing was held in early January 2017. Final resource consent was granted in March 2017.

Location

Otago

Worked with

Fluent Solutions
John Edmonds & Associates
Patterson Pitts Group
Scott Partners
TDG
Warren and Mahoney

Project date

2016 - 2017

Boffa Miskell provided landscape, master planning and urban design expertise on behalf of Sanderson Group by producing a landscape and urban design report, landscape and visual assessment and a full masterplan as part of the EOI. This work was further refined through the resource consent process. The master plan provides for new retirement housing, care/hospital facilities, worker accommodation, community and commercial facilities, as well as public spaces, ecological restoration and infrastructure upgrades. The assessments outlined that the proposed development would result in a new alignment to the urban growth boundary and new urban development within Queenstown.

The master plan will achieve the following key urban design and landscape aspirations:

  • promote urban consolidation, a compact urban form and a legible and well-connected development;
  • integrate with the adjoining Lake Hayes Estate and Shotover Country housing areas;
  • create a new urban residential setting with high amenity;
  • mitigate the visual impacts on the surrounding outstanding natural landscape and respond to the rural amenity with a setback to Ladies Mile;
  • draw on the prevalent characteristics of the Otago context.