Press Releases

A repair to the Project Pure pipeline (Wanaka waste water) is underway after a fault was detected, Queenstown Lakes District Council general manager infrastructure Ken Gousmett said. The repair involves replacing a faulty air valve which had resulted in a minor leak into bare ground 500 metres east...Read More

The Queenstown Lakes District Council has welcomed participation in a project undertaken by the Office of the Auditor General to seek learning’s from existing Council Controlled Organisation models. Representatives of the Auditor General are in Queenstown today to initiate the information gat...Read More

New parents in the Queenstown Lakes District are being encouraged to discover the benefits of using cloth nappies as the ‘Happy Nappy’ scheme launches next month. The scheme, which offered parents the opportunity to purchase $10 cloth nappy starter packs, was aimed at reducing the numbe...Read More

The Wanaka recycling contract has been awarded to a new contractor. Today's decision by the Queenstown Lakes District Council Infrastructure Services Committee awards the contract (six years with a possible extension of up to three years) to Smart Environmental Limited (SEL) over two other tenders,...Read More

Construction on another link in a trail that will eventually see people able to cycle from Queenstown to Gibbston is set to begin next week, Queenstown Lakes District Council general manager community services Paul Wilson said. “Arrowtown based firm Natural Habitats has been awarded the contr...Read More

The Queenstown Lakes District Council’s Strategy Committee will be asked to consider a recommendation to accept in part a plan change that could see a significant area of rural zoned land west of Queenstown developed for residential use, QLDC general manager policy and planning Philip Pannett ...Read More

The Queenstown Lakes District Council will invite members of the community to form a consultation working group to further discuss the provision of affordable housing in the district, QLDC general manager policy and planning Philip Pannett said. The QLDC would also be asking the Environment Court t...Read More