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February, 2017 A new Queenstown church development at Frankton could include a sportsfield, indoor court, hostel, playground and more than 30 residential units. Wakatipu Community Presbyterian Church has submitted plans to the Queenstown Lakes District Council to build the new development by State Highway 6. The application outlines details of plans for the eight-hectare site. The first phase of the development is a 1265 square metre church including an auditorium, a 70-seat chapel and a 15-metre steeple. Two new manses and recreational facilities, including the football pitch and indoor court, are also on the cards. The church will be intentionally prominent and will be highly visible from views along the road, the application plan says. Housing would follow in phase two, including two more manses, 13 residential units (separately saleable), 14 retirement units, a visitor accommodation hostel, childrens playground, community gardens & and additional car and bus parking . The application says the development will help ease Queenstowns housing woes. Theres been rapid growth on the Frankton Flats in recent years, including the Five Mile shopping centre with more large-scale commercial and residential plans across Grant Road. A lack of space has got the church on the move. The church congregations and community groups [including Girl Guides, Buddy programme and Autism Southland] are outgrowing the existing buildings, and the church serves a mixed international congregation and wider community that has different requirements to a traditional church space and meetings. The church currently operates from three churches in the Wakatipu St Andrews in Queenstown, St Margarets at Frankton and historic St Johns, Arrowtown. (Source: Mountain Scene)
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