Brewery Creek and Reavers Lane - Natural Hazard Review

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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.

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.

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    There is concern that not one of the options presented at the Memorial Hall presentation outlined the downstream effects of each option on the property owners in terms of future development rights or effects property values, nor how these effects will be addressed. The risks are on council land and it is for the council to address those risks, and the costs (either direct or indirect) should not be passed back to individual property owners. Equally there is concern that simple saying property owners are protected by the district plan is deceptive, as the district plan is subject to change. Property owners cannot be expected to provide feedback on a preferred option without understand what the effects of each option would be. This type of feedback gathering is very disingenuously.

    Alastair asked 6 months ago

    Hey there! Thanks for your query. We did have information available at the 'Hear about the Hazard' sessions on development rights and property values under the four options. Information on where the costs fall for each of the options was also available. We're sorry if you missed this - but we now have this information available here on Let's Talk too! On the Natural Hazards page, you'll find a heading called ‘Hear about the Hazard Technical Information’. Please refer to the ‘Costs & Benefits Analysis’ file and the three ‘Social Outcomes’ files. You may also find some of the videos helpful, particularly the economic and social ones (when they are posted). The Market Economics Social and Economic Impacts Assessment report, under the heading ‘Technical Assessments’ on this webpage also provides detailed analysis of these issues. We are aware that this information is not necessarily straight forward to understand, and we are happy to explain it in more detail to you over the phone or in person. If you are in the elevated risk area shown in yellow on the Risk Map (also on this website), we have another opportunity next week for you to understand the impacts of the options on you, via Risk Response Discussions. We will be explaining the impact of the options in more detail at these session. Please email Emily or Luke at letstalk@qldc.govt.nz if you would like to come to a Risk Response Discussion or discuss your concerns in person.

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    I live in 18 Fryer street for nearly 40 years and in your map showing that part of my property you consider is at risk, I am in the process of selling my property for development and if this goes through will that mean they cannot develop any future complex? You have given 14 fryer and 20 Fryer Street consent and I am in the middle of both properties it is ridiculous that you allowed both properties consent and and that due to your risk boundary that a probability that you will decline any future development on 18 Fryer Street? In my time I have never seen any flow of debris nor flooding, how has this come about? I cannot understand why just across the road from my place is considered low risk when it is just a few steps across the road?

    Standfield asked 7 months ago

    Hi there! Council is currently considering options to address risk, and there is no actual change proposed yet. A decision on whether Council moves forward with any of the options will be made sometime in 2022, and it would take time to implement any of the options (apart from the 'status quo' option). The level of risk on your property is at the lower end of what Council is considering, and our general approach is that any intervention matches the level of risk. If you weren't able to make one of the drop-in sessions we hosted in the weekend just been, email our team at letstalk@qldc.govt.nz and we can organise to talk with you at a time that suits you.

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    Hi, It would be great to know why the properties at the cul de sac end of Hilton Place are not within the study area. The area studied contains a diversity of home owners & occupants, including young families attending nearby schools etc. Will there be clear separated risk levels identified? it seems the far right of the area studied is further away than some of the areas that are NOT in the area studied. (ie hylton place cul de sac) Thanks for any clarification

    jojo asked 7 months ago

    Hi there - for your question. The properties on Hilton Place are not included in the study area as these are on lower lying land that is not part of the overall alluvial fan landform. The Hilton Place land was rezone Business Mixed Use as part of Stage 1 of the District Plan review, which was notified in 2015. We have clear separated levels of risk identified, and only part of the area under review is subject to elevated areas of risk.

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    An aerial view plan of the stream positions and properties affected would be a very useful tool to visualise what it is this is all about.

    Brian asked 9 months ago

    An aerial view of the stream positions, properties affected and risk probabilities can be found here: https://www.qldc.govt.nz/media/k5nnfzkj/3b-attachment-b-slope-stability-annual-individual-life-risk-contours.pdf

    We're also working on an aerial view of the affected locations with a tolerability overlay. We'll share this soon!

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    Hi there, just wondering where things are at with this project and whether there are any indicative timeframes on notification of options/plan changes?

    MorganS asked about 1 year ago

    Queenstown Lakes District Council is currently in the final stages of analysing risk management options. Once complete, we’ll be hosting a number of community sessions in the latter half of 2021 to help guide selection of risk management options.

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