Invitation for comments
On 28 September 2026, the Remarkables Ski Area Upgrade and Doolans Expansion expert panel released Minute 1, recording their decision on which parties are to be invited to comment.
Minute 1 of the expert panel (PDF, 525 KB)
The closing date for comments was 27 October 2026.
Comments received
- Minister for Infrastructure (PDF, 42 KB)
- Minister for Māori Crown Relations and Māori Development (PDF, 289 KB)
- Minister for the South Island (PDF, 129 KB)
- Minister of Economic Growth (PDF, 336 KB)
- New Zealand Conservation Authority (PDF, 480 KB)
- New Zealand Transport Agency (PDF, 160 KB)
- Otago Conservation Board (PDF, 151 KB)
- Queenstown Mountain Guides (PDF, 122 KB)
- Queenstown Park Limited (PDF, 855 KB)
- Minister for Climate Change (PDF, 93 KB)
Central Otago District Council
- Central Otago District Council (CODC) comments (PDF, 1 MB)
- Central Otago District Council (CODC) covering letter (PDF, 124 KB)
- Appendix A – Resource Consent Conditions comments (PDF, 3 MB)
- Appendix B – Terrestrial Ecology (PDF, 632 KB)
- Appendix C – Heritage (PDF, 172 KB)
- Appendix D1 – Landscape Additional Peer Review (PDF, 284 KB)
- Appendix D2 – Landscape Initial Peer Review (PDF, 233 KB)
- Appendix E – Economics (PDF, 2 MB)
- Appendix F – Noise and Vibration (PDF, 186 KB)
- Appendix G – Natural Hazards (PDF, 219 KB)
- Appendix H – Three Waters (PDF, 3 MB)
- Appendix I – Planning (PDF, 356 KB)
Department of Conservation
- Department of Conservation (DOC) comments (PDF, 1 MB)
- Appendix A – Track changes and comments on proposed consent conditions (PDF, 10 MB)
- Attachment 1 – DOC Expert Statement Planning Assessment Jane Macleod (PDF, 1 MB)
- Attachment 2 – Addendum to Expert Statement Terrestrial Flora & Ecosystems Susan Walker (PDF, 613 KB)
- Attachment 3 – Addendum to Expert Statement Landscape Jeremy Head (PDF, 198 KB)
- Attachment 4 – Addendum to Expert Statement Effects Management Fleur Maseyk (PDF, 206 KB)
Kā Rūnaka
- Kā Rūnaka Comment and Legal Submissions (PDF, 303 KB)
- Kā Rūnaka Treaty Rights and Interests Statement (PDF, 665 KB)
- Statement of Evidence of Dr Alayna Rā (PDF, 182 KB)
- Statement of Evidence of Dr Gail Tipa (PDF, 186 KB)
- Statement of Evidence of Dr Rowan Dixon (PDF, 161 KB)
- Statement of Evidence of Edward Ellison (PDF, 268 KB)
- Statement of Evidence of Matthew Dale (PDF, 236 KB)
- Statement of Evidence of Michael Dreaver (PDF, 186 KB)
- Statement of Evidence of Richard Meade (PDF, 1 MB)
- Statement of Evidence of Shane Ellison (PDF, 168 KB)
Otago Regional Council
- Otago Regional Council (ORC) comments (PDF, 524 KB)
- Appendix 1 – Technical Expert Report Wetlands Remarkables (PDF, 501 KB)
- Appendix 2 – Technical Expert Memo Michael Greer (PDF, 657 KB)
- Appendix 3 – Technical Expert Report Charlotte Lockyer (PDF, 405 KB)
- Appendix 4 – Technical Expert Memo Tim Baker (PDF, 50 KB)
- Appendix 5 – Geotechnical Audit GeoSolve Ltd (PDF, 247 KB)
Queenstown Lakes District Council
- Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) comments (PDF, 430 KB)
- Appendix 1 – Transport (PDF, 1 MB)
- Appendix 2 – Landscape (PDF, 284 KB)
- Appendix 3 – Transport Economics (PDF, 410 KB)
- Appendix 4 – Property and Infrastructure Technical Memo (PDF, 236 KB)
- Appendix 5 – Natural Hazards (PDF, 1 MB)
- Appendix 6 – Comments on Conditions (PDF, 1011 KB)
Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu
Applicant's response to comments received
Part 1: Legal submission
Part 2: Statement of evidence
- Part 2 – 01- SOE – Paul Anderson (Commercial), NZSki Limited (PDF, 332 KB)
- Part 2 – 02 – SOE – Louise McQuillan (Commercial), NZSki Limited (PDF, 11 MB)
- Part 2 – 03 – SOE – Ross Lawrence (Commercial), NZSki Limited (PDF, 185 KB)
- Part 2 – 04 – SOE - Rob Greenaway (Recreation), Greenaway and Associates (PDF, 155 KB)
- Part 2 – 05 – SOE – Nicolas Cullen (Climate Change), University of Otago (PDF, 909 KB)
- Part 2 – 06 – SOE – Thomas Grandiek (Construction Environmental Management Erosion and Sediment Control), Enviroscope (PDF, 377 KB)
- Part 2 – 07 – SOE – Alexandra Badenhop (Hydrology), e3Scientific Limited (PDF, 2 MB)
- Part 2 – 08 – SOE – Doyle Richardson (Wastewater), DR Environmental Limited (PDF, 180 KB)
- Part 2 – 09 – SOE – Marc Jensen (Wastewater), Stantec New Zealand (PDF, 156 KB)
- Part 2 – 10 – SOE – Simon Bloomberg (Wastewater) e3Scientific Limited (PDF, 6 MB)
- Part 2 – 11 – SOE – Gary Bramley (Terrestrial Ecology), EcoLogical Solutions Limited (PDF, 475 KB)
- Part 2 – 12 - SOE – Glenn Davis (Terrestrial Ecology), e3Scientific Limited (PDF, 11 MB)
- Part 2 – 13 – SOE – Liam Salemink-Waldren (Terrestrial Ecology), e3Scientific Limited (PDF, 11 MB)
- Part 2 – 14 – SOE – Rebecca Teele (Terrestrial Ecology), e3Scientific Limited (PDF, 11 MB)
- Part 2 – 15 – SOE – REDACTED - Carey Knox and Trudy Anderson (Lizards), Southern Scales and e3Scientific Limited (PDF, 4 MB)
- Part 2 – 16 – SOE – Mark Hamer (Freshwater Ecology), e3Scientific Limited (PDF, 325 KB)
- Part 2 – 17 – SOE – Richard Allibone (Freshwater Ecology), Water Ways Consulting (PDF, 930 KB)
- Part 2 – 18 – SOE – Benje Patterson (Economics), Benje Patterson People and Places (PDF, 285 KB)
- Part 2 - 19 - SOE - Dawn Cropper (Heritage), New Zealand Heritage Properties (PDF, 1 MB)
- Part 2 - 20 - SOE - Yvonne Pfluger (Landscape), Boffa Miskell Limited (PDF, 893 KB)
- Part 2 - 21 - SOE - Derek Chinn (Engineering), Stantec New Zealand (PDF, 144 KB)
- Part 2 – 22 – SOE – Chris Rossiter (Transport), Stantec New Zealand (PDF, 6 MB)
- Part 2 - 23 - SOE - Kirsty O'Sullivan (Planning), Mitchell Daysh Limited (PDF, 821 KB)
- Part 2 - 24 - SOE - John Kyle (Planning), Mitchell Daysh Limited (PDF, 140 KB)
Part 3: Proposed conditions and management plans
- Part 3 – 01 – Updated Terrestrial Ecology Management Plan, 2 November 2026 (PDF, 3 MB)
- Part 3 – 02 – Updated Construction Environmental Management Plan, 3 November 2026 (PDF, 13 MB)
- Part 3 – 03 – Updated Erosion and Sediment Control Management Plan, 3 November 2026 (PDF, 5 MB)
- Part 3 - 04 - Updated Table of Resource Consent Conditions (PDF, 9 MB)
- Part 3 – 05 – Updated Concession Doolans Expansion, 3 November 2026 (PDF, 2 MB)
- Part 3 – 06 – Updated Concession Remarkables Upgrades, 3 November 2026 (PDF, 1 MB)
- Part 3 – 07 – Updated Concession Doolans Expansion Schedule 4 Maps, 3 November 2026 (PDF, 9 MB)
- Part 3 – 08 – Updated Wildlife Approval - Avifauna, 3 November 2026 (PDF, 382 KB)
- Part 3 – 09 – Updated Wildlife Approval - Lizards, 3 November 2026 (PDF, 407 KB)