Council considers rezoning land

CLYDE

A $200 million retirement village, dementia care unit and subdivision planned for Clyde was the subject of a closeddoor meeting in Alexandra yesterday.

Documentation presented in the agenda for the Central Otago District Council hearings panel meeting states the recommendation of a planning consultant is the development be approved with modifications.

The panel met to consider a resource management application from The Clyde Claim Ltd,

Houlahan Enterprises Ltd, Colin Frederick Foster and Vicki Anne Geytha Gillies, and Ostex Corporation Ltd to rezone land from rural resource area to residential resource area.

The application, known as plan change 15, is to rezone land bordering State Highway 8, Sunderland St and Muttontown

Rd southeast of the Clyde township for the proposed development, which includes 164 retirement homes, an 80bed dementia care unit, and a 36lot subdivision.

The reason given for the closed meeting was enabling the panel to deliberate in private based on grounds set out by the Local

Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987.

Council planning consultant David Whitney’s report was presented to the public excluded hearing.

In it, he said plan change 15 was publicly notified on July 11 and the closing date for submissions was August 10.

He recommended 10 submissions ‘‘that unconditionally support plan change 15’’ and a further three that supported the plan change be accepted ‘‘in part’’, subject to some modifications of it.

Mr Whitney also recommended two submissions opposing plan change 15 unless issues were addressed.

His overall recommendation was that plan change 15 be approved with modifications.

The hearings panel reserved its decision.