Car Park Obstructs Queenstown Plan

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31987, 14 May 1969, Page 14

Car Park Obstructs Queenstown Plan

(New Zealand Press Association)

DUNEDIN, May 12.

The building of a 300-bed hotel on the present Eichardt’s Hotel site on the lake front at Queenstown may be precluded by a decision of the Queenstown-Wakatipu District Planning Committee.

The committee rejected an objection by the Tourist Hotel Corporation and a supporting objection by the Mount Cook and Southern Lakes Tourist Company that the designation of a proposed car park in Church Street under the new district scheme plan be uplifted and the land concerned zoned commercial. The decision, unless reversed by the Tow and Country Planning Appeal Board, makes the Eichardt’s site virtually unsuitable for the new hotel proposed by the Mount Cook company and approved in principle by the Government

In its written decision, the committee said it was necessary to retain the Church Street car park as such for the sake of the proposed mall in Ballarat Street, the town’s main thoroughfare. The closed pedestrian mall is one of the main plannning features In the development

of the central area of Queenstown.

Rear access to business premises in the mall would be affected if the Tourist Hotel Corporation objection was allowed, the committee said.