Brewery Creek and Reavers Lane - Natural Hazard Review
About the Natural Hazard Review
Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) has been investigating risk from natural hazards in the Brewery Creek and Reavers Lane areas. Assessments show there is a range of risk levels in these areas, with elevated levels of risk in some places. QLDC has also been investigating potential options for managing this risk to ensure that people and property are safe.
Over November and December 2021, we met with the Brewery Creek and Reavers Lane community to share findings of the technical information we have commissioned, and what we might be able to do to address risk in these locations. These meetings included 'Hear about the Hazards’ drop-in sessions open to anyone to attend, as well as a series of ‘Risk Response Discussions’ for those who live in or have an interest in property in areas with elevated levels of natural hazard risk. We’d like to thank all those who attended these sessions.
QLDC staff also met with a range of individuals who were not able to attend these sessions.
Council’s independent facilitator, Dr Margaret Kilvington has now completed her report on the consultation events held at the end of 2021. You can find Dr Kilvington’s report here and in the document library located to the right of this page.
Got a question?
If you have any questions on the consultation report, the technical information or the next steps for the natural hazards plan review, QLDC staff are available to answer any questions. You can ask your question at the bottom of this page and we'll get a member of our Planning team to respond as soon as possible, or fire us an email at letstalk@qldc.govt.nz and we'll respond as soon as possible.
What's next?
Council staff are currently bringing together feedback received from the community and advice received from technical experts, to prepare a ‘preferred response package’ to address the risk. This package will recommend mitigation and response actions, and will identify further work required to implement these actions.
The package will be presented to Councillors at the Council meeting on Thursday 30 June 2022 for their consideration. If endorsed at that meeting, staff and technical experts will continue to work on developing the detail of the package before presenting results back to Council at a later date. No decision to implement a response will be made at the 30 June meeting.
We will provide further updates on this website. The timeline below provides information on what stage we are at in this natural hazards review project.
Ask a Question
Got a question about natural hazards in the Brewery Creek and Reavers Lane areas? Ask it here and a member of QLDC's Planning team will respond as soon as possible.