Inclusionary Housing Plan Change

Make a further submission:

• Post: Queenstown Lakes District Council, Private Bag 50072, Queenstown 9348, Attention: Inclusionary Housing Further Submission
• Email: pdpsubmission@qldc.govt.nz (subject line: Inclusionary Housing Further Submission)

Any written further submissions that do not use the online form must be made using Form 6, as prescribed by the Resource Management (Forms, Fees, and Procedure) Regulations 2003. All submissions must state whether or not you wish to be heard in support of your further submission at a hearing. The further submission form is available from the locations listed above, as well as the Ministry for the Environment and New Zealand Legislation websites.

Who can make a further submission?

The following persons may lodge a further submission:

(a) Any person representing a relevant aspect of the public interest; and

(b) Any person that has an interest in an aspect of the variation greater than the public in                 general.

What can a further submission cover?

Further submissions must be limited to matters in support of, or in opposition to, a matter raised in an original submission.

Submissions have closed

Form 6

When a person or group makes a submission or further submission on a District Plan or Plan Change this is public information.

Please note that by making a submission your personal details, including your name and addresses will be made publicly available under the Resource Management Act 1991. This is because, under the Act, any further submission supporting or opposing your submission must be forwarded to you as well as to QLDC.

There are limited circumstances when your submission or your contact details can be kept confidential. If you consider you have compelling reasons why your submission or your contact details should be kept confidential please contact the Senior District Plan Administrator on 03 441 0499 to discuss.

• This is a proposal and will be subject to a formal public consultation process which starts on 13 October 2022.

• The proposal may change as a result of submissions.

• The proposed rules do not apply until Council makes a decision on the plan change following a hearing. This will take some time.

• The proposed financial contribution will not apply in the following areas. This is because a pre-existing agreement to provide affordable housing contributions has already been made with developers:

  • Jacks Point (including Hanleys Farm), Bullendale, Coneburn, Arrowtown Retirement Village, Northlake, Queenstown Country Club, Longview, Hikuwai, Riverside Park, Peninsula Bay, Allenby Farms, Quail Rise, Shotover Country, Homestead Bay, Tomasi.

• The proposed ‘affordable housing financial contribution’ is important to support the vital work of the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (or another registered Community Housing Provider).

• Since 2007, the Trust has built and delivered a total of eight housing developments (119 homes) on land received through an inclusionary housing-type process, which along with other homes purchased has helped 244 local households remain in the area. Further housing developments (totalling over 100 homes) are also underway at Northlake, Hāwea and Arrowtown.

The proposed ‘affordable housing financial contribution’ would be payable either at the time of residential subdivision approval and/or when building consent is issued for a new build (including apartments in business and mixed use areas).  The contribution will not apply to small units (residential flats) located on an existing house site). 

The proposed contribution for a subdivision would be:

The proposed contribution for new residential development in urban areas would depend on whether a contribution has already been paid by the developer that completed the subdivision.  

Where new houses are to be built on lots that have not already been subject to an affordable housing contribution (for example building on a vacant lot that was created before the proposed rules come into effect), the contribution would be the lesser of either:

• 2% of the anticipated sales value of the additional house(s) created, or

• A set rate of $150 per square metre of the net increase in residential floorspace.

For example: a new house on a vacant lot with a floor area of 150m² and estimated value of $800,000 would trigger a contribution of $16,000.

A $1.5 million new house with a floor area of 250m² would trigger a contribution of $30,000.

More details on the proposed contribution, how it’s calculated and how they’ve been set, can be read in the FAQs or proposed provisions below.