The Glenoir LP subdivision along Alexandra’s Dunstan Road has been approved, but developers are still waiting on the outcome of the Environment Court appeal regarding the zoning.

Developers Shanon Garden, Shaun O’Docherty and George Collier, will be addressing the Central Otago District Council today (Wednesday November 26), about their concerns with Plan Change 19.

The CODC hearings panel signed off PC19 last year as part of the new District Plan, which allowed the 31-lot subdivision to move from ‘Rural Residential’ to the new ‘Large Lot Residential’ zoning on the 4.1ha site.

But the developers' appeal seeks to rezone the site further for ‘Low Density Residential’- which would enable a range of smaller lot sizes, other than just the 840m2 to 2,030m2 that has been approved.

Independent commissioners Louise Taylor, Rosalind Day-Cleavin and Wendy Baker approved the subdivision on November 17, following a hearing in Alexandra last month.

One of the lots will also be vested as a public recreation reserve and the developers intend to develop the park with a landscaping plan and park furniture. 

Additionally, the development includes a walking/cycling and service connection to existing tracks in the area.

Shanon said in his submission, that as developers they value diversity of lot size, and consequently housing product, within neighbourhoods. 

“We seek to avoid what can be a bland uniformity of housing where all lots are the same size. We want to enable different family groups to share in the neighbourhood we create. We want to be able to bring properties to the market at different price points.”

Glenoir LP applied for resource consent in September 2023, and reduced its application from 40 lots to just 30 lots a year later.

The proposal was then withdrawn and the current one lodged in its place - but in September it was reduced further to 27 lots and included a 1400sqm park to be vested to the council.

The design of the subdivision and the lot density was made under the Comprehensive Residential Development (CRD) framework introduced into the District Plan.

The developers are also planning a second development along Dunstan Road for a 54-lot subdivision, next to the consented Molyneux Lifestyle development currently underway.