Written Submissions

Submission: We confront the Queenstown Lakes tourism economy with the existential threat of climate change that’s caused by international flights.

We challenge QLDC to make good on its three-year old climate emergency declaration by assessing the emissions impact of the FlighPlan2050 proposal.

Despite council’s direct control over the district’s urban form and its majority ownership of the airport it has refused to consider these within its Climate Action Plan.

We ask QLDC to identify and protect roadways that could be used by Hercules aircraft during civil emergencies.

We challenge the Homes strategy to investigate the advantages of urban density at Frankton enabled by the relocation of Queenstown Airport to Tarras.

We ask the NZ infrastructure commission to lobby for a national governance framework to manage surface, air and sea transport as an integrated, efficient network.

We seek protection for the ability to use Ladies Mile as an emergency runway if Queenstown Airport was relocated to Tarras.

Our detailed analysis shows the high-density urbanisation of Frankton enabled by relocating Queenstown Airport maximises the spatial plan’s strategic goals.

We submit that CIAL’s proposed airport near Tarras together with urban development of Frankton is a great climate change strategy.

We provided a detailed analysis showing relocation of Queenstown Airport to Tarras that allows Frankton urbanization was the best scenario.