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Investigation of the week.

How did 226 new homes, many with a floor plan of only 67 square metres, get approved for Queenstown’s Five Mile, with a broken sewage system, severe traffic congestion, limited parking and many of the homes approved for short term accommodation. Affordable worker accommodation? Not really – they start at $869,000.

$869,000 for 67 square metres. Hardly affordable worker accomodation.

Plus:

• Crux fought to join the Queenstown Chamber of Commerce – why we are now leaving.
• Remember the 2023 Cryptosporidium outbreak? Has the QLDC managed to fix our drinking water, or have they cut costs with a partially ineffective system?
• We ask Stuff if they are going to replace their former Queenstown reporter Debbie Jamieson – or will they be joining the exodus of mainstream media from the district?
• The council’s first Trust and Confidence survey is due out in mid-May – we ask to see the raw data.