1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: Dickens, it's five twenty. It's a big story. There will 2 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 1: be no McDonald's and Wonica, at least not anytime soon. 3 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: The fast food giants consent application has been declined by commissioners. 4 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 1: They said the proposed development will be at odds with 5 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 1: the town's rural living, environment and activities. Three hundred and 6 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:25,480 Speaker 1: sixty seven public submissions were made, most of them against 7 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 1: the McDonald's. Quentin Smith is Queenstown Lakes District Deputy mayor 8 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: and a Wonica local. 9 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:34,840 Speaker 2: Hello, Quentin Good here a you're going good? 10 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: Are you four? Or against? Well? 11 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 2: Look at you take a side? But I think that 12 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 2: you know from counsels suspected it from from planning. This 13 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 2: was the discussion about location, probably not so much about 14 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 2: fast food. 15 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 1: Is Wonica still really rural living? 16 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 2: Well? What parts of it are? And this is the 17 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 2: point that, like A said before, there may be parts 18 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 2: of town where this activity might be appropriate. And if 19 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:08,679 Speaker 2: this was within a commercial within the town center or 20 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 2: within a commercial zone within the town, I there say 21 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 2: there's very little that any anybody could do to stop that. 22 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 1: Was it within one hundred meters of a major team 23 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: mega or warehouse in the New World. 24 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 2: No not within one hundred meters, but it's not too 25 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:27,679 Speaker 2: far away. But it is right on the right, on 26 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,319 Speaker 2: the intersection and the edge of town. 27 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:33,759 Speaker 1: It's not okay, I didn't, Okay, I have a measure. 28 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 1: I'll tell you. I'll it's right beside Mount Iron. It's 29 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 1: right beside the intersection. You go down the intersection to 30 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 1: three parks, maybe it's two hundred and fifty meters and 31 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: then there's a whole lot of concrete car parks. So 32 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: what's wrong with that place for a for a mcde's. 33 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 2: Well, look, that's not for me to determine. But the zoning. 34 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 2: You know that the planning assessment is based on the 35 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 2: zoning that it currently is. And the Polish isn't objective 36 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 2: of this district plan and the commissioners found that that 37 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 2: was instant. Look if it was on a directly next 38 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 2: to my mile at ten and it was on a 39 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,239 Speaker 2: commercial land, that assessment would be new to be made. 40 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: Have McDonald's been told that that if they moved there 41 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: so they will probably get consent? 42 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 2: Well, look, I think that's pretty obvious to any professional 43 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 2: planner that abused that that if they complied with the 44 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 2: zone rules and a commercial zone they wouldn't. 45 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 1: Are you still with me or have you disappeared off 46 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: for a burger? 47 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 2: No? Not, I am here, I am here. 48 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:35,079 Speaker 1: Oh good god, you just actually dropped off a little bit. Sorry, 49 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: that's okay, It's okay, okay. So it's all about proposed 50 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 1: mitigation measures. People who complained about it said all the 51 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 1: planting and the bounding aren't enough, and the building and 52 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: the signage and the lighting in the parking areas, and 53 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,360 Speaker 1: they do not align with the communities objective to protect 54 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 1: and enhance our natural landscapes. Would they bang on with 55 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:52,920 Speaker 1: that or are they wrong? 56 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 2: Well, look, traditionally in the rural zone, if there is 57 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 2: an activity, even a house or that would be set 58 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 2: back from the road and they would use earth mounting 59 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 2: and planting or something like that to mitigate the impact. 60 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 2: It's fair to say that the McDonald's prototyle was hard 61 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 2: against the road boundary and very little mitigation in place. 62 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,359 Speaker 1: All right, Quentin, your phone line sterile. I'm afraid you 63 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: should actually invest actually in rural phones and phone networks 64 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: down there. So I'm going to leave it there. But 65 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: Quentin Smith is the Deputy mayor of the Queenstown Lakes District. 66 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: And the claim is made if they had a different site, 67 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,240 Speaker 1: perhaps they might get some approval. What do you think. 68 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 1: For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to 69 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 1: news talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow 70 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio.