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July, 2017 Queenstown is to receive $50 million to build roads and waterinfrastructure in three new areas to be developed for housing around the ever-expanding township. The money is part of the Government's $1 billion housing infrastructure fund, announced in this year's budget. Details were announced this month. Auckland, Hamilton, Waikato and Tauranga councils are to receive the lion's share of the funding, which will be used to provide network roading and water infrastructure for 60,000 houses across nine projects in these five fast-growing urban areas. In Queenstown, the funding is earmarked for new infrastructure at two greenfields sites, at Quail Rise South and on the Ladies Mile and an extension of the Kingston township. The funding should allow 3200 homes in total to be built over the three sites, in some cases years earlier than otherwise. Construction Minister Dr Nick Smith said adding the "big new subdivisions' would help lift the supply of residential sections and provide more options for buyers. The $50 million for Queenstown would be divvied up three ways. The lion's share, $23.6 million, would go to Kingston, where infrastructure networks for water supply, waste water and storm water would be built allowing an additional 250 homes to be built in the next five years and another 450 in the five years after that. At Quail Rise South $10.3 million would be allocated for projects including a SH6 connector road, a collector road and pedestrian/cycle underpass and stormwater, wastewater and water mains work for an additional 1,150 homes to built there over the next 10 years. On the Ladies Mile, $12.6 million would be available to build SH6 connections, public transport access, and water, wastewater and stormwater mains systems allowing an extra 1,100 houses to built in that area over the next 10 years. All the money would be available to councils to draw down in the 2018- 19 year. Dr Smith said planning constraints on new subdivisions were freed up through Special Housing Areas and reforms to the Resource Management Act, but areas zoned for residences could not be built on without infrastructure. "We will be working closely with the Councils and developers to ensure these projects are progressed at pace.' The next step was for councils to complete detailed funding agreements with the Government over the next few months. There was also a huge amount of work required on resource consenting and construction of the works, Dr Smith said. (Source: Otago Daily Times)
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