A large development including more than 700 new homes near Queenstown will be fast tracked for consenting.
The Te Putahi project at Lake Hayes has been approved under the Government's Covid-19 recovery act, one of three projects to be allowed to skip some of the usual RMA hoops you have to jump through.
748 houses will be built along with a park-and-ride public transport area and potentially a school.
New Queenstown Lakes mayor Glyn Lewers joined Kate Hawkesby.
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