Submission to the Ladies Mile Hearing Panel
Date: 20 October 2023
The Section 42A Hearing Report used to summarise and review submissions recommended that the Hearing Panel should not support any changes to the Ladies Mile master plan that would protect its future emergency runway potential.
The Section 42A Hearing Report prepared by a contracted planner Jeff Brown recommended against our submission, considering that the costs outweighed the benefits.
In our response below, we rebut Mr Brown’s advice, showing the substantially underestimated the importance and benefits of the relief resort, and incorrectly assumed costs that don’t exist.
We then outlined the context of why protecting the Ladies Mile future emergency runway potential was important by outlining the credibility of CIAL’s Central Otago Airport and the benefit of Frankton Flats central urbanisation.