Silverlight Studios Accommodation
This project has been referred to an expert consenting panel for fast-track consenting under the Covid-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting Act 2020).
Project ID
2021-058
Applicant
Silverlight Studios Limited
Project summary
- To fit out and operate approximately 300 residential units, within buildings constructed as part of the Silverlight Studios film studio complex, as accommodation for:
- film cast members, film crew members (including post-production crew members), other workers at the film studio complex, and students of the film school at that complex
- visitors, but only to the extent that the residential units are not required for those cast members, crew members, other workers or students
- To construct or install infrastructure that is associated with the residential units (eg, car parking, access for walking and transport, and three waters services).
Location
707 Wanaka Luggate Highway (State Highway 6), approximately 7km to the east of Wanaka.
Referred projects order
Schedule 10A to the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Referred Projects Order 2020 [New Zealand Legislation website]
The project will:
- help to achieve the purpose of the Act
- have positive effects on social well-being by:
- enhancing employment opportunities
- reducing pressure on the local housing market by providing on-site residential accommodation
- provide approximately:
- 175 full-time equivalent jobs per year over a 3-year design and construction period
- 30 full-time equivalent operational jobs, on an ongoing basis, after that period ends
- increase the supply of local accommodation by providing approximately 300 new on-site residential units for:
- film cast members, film crew members (including post-production crew members), other workers at the complex, and students of the film school
- visitors, but only to the extent that those units are not required for the cast members, crew members, other workers or students
- likely progress faster than would otherwise be the case under the standard RMA processes.
Any actual and potential effects arising from the project, together with any measures to avoid, remedy, mitigate, offset, or compensate for adverse effects, could be tested by a panel against Part 2 of the Resource Management Act 1991 and the purpose of the Act.
Section 17 report
Section 17 report [PDf, 381 KB]