Cardrona Village Character Guidelines CONTENTS

Introduction 1 Purpose of the guidelines 3 Cardrona Village characteristics 4 Character design principles 5 Village structure 2 Structuring elements 7 Site layout 10

Building design elements 3 Building character 14 Materials 19 Applying colour 21

Public open space design 4 Cardrona Valley Road 22 Village green 24 Secondary streets and lanes 25 Acknowledgements: This guideline is produced by Queenstown Lakes District Council with support from Urbanism+ Ltd and Pocock Design:Environment Riverside landscape 25 Landscaping and planting in Cardrona Village 26 January 2012 Palette of materials 27 Amended March 2021

2 1 Introduction

1.1 PURPOSE OF THE GUIDELINES

These Character Guidelines reflect the 1.1a The Planning Framework commitment of the Cardrona Valley community and the Queenstown Lakes The Queenstown Lakes District District Council to encourage Cardrona Plan provides a planning framework Valley to develop as a cohesive and for Cardrona Village through the integrated Village with a character that Settlement Zone Chapter 20. is appropriate to its history and the surrounding environment. All owners and designers must refer to the Guidelines as part of undertaking To accomplish this, the guidelines certain types of development where identify the key existing characteristics a resource consent is required. that make Cardrona distinctive and The Guidelines will be considered suggest ways that the community can on a case by case basis to the build upon and complement these development. characteristics as the village grows. The Guidelines are referenced within The Council also recommends that all the District Plan in the Settlement projects that will significantly affect Zone and Signs Chapter and seeks the town or village centre are reviewed to inform and guide appropriate by the Urban Design Panel; which will development outcomes within the consider how the proposal has applied areas governed by this document. these guidelines. The most value from the panel process usually arises when projects are brought to the panel in the conceptual stages of the project when the panel’s advice can most readily be incorporated.

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1.2 CARDRONA VILLAGE CHARACTERISTICS

The extraordinary natural environment Development history Landscape setting (1), high country scenery, and the recreational activities based on this For centuries prior to European arrival The Cardrona Valley is set in a high environment are qualities that attract the valley formed part of the route country alpine environment with recreational visitors and residents for Maori travelling between the West development contained within the to the area. The village lies on the Coast and southern Otago. European valley floor close to the Cardrona River quickest route between Queenstown settlement began with large pastoral (2). Here the environment has a more and Wānaka, close to the access runs back in the 1850s, followed domesticated character, including roads to Cardrona Ski field, Snow rapidly by the discovery of gold in plant species associated with farming Farm and Snow Park. The historic the 1860s which brought the influx of and residential development. Cardrona Hotel remains an iconic miners that led to the establishment of stage post along that journey. the town. The village lies 25kms up the valley 2 from Wānaka at a point where the At its peak in the 1870s, Cardrona is wide open pastoral terraces of the Within the town large specimen trees estimated to have had a population valley floor transition to a narrower and feature prominently, in some cases of between 3000 and 4000, with four more steeply inclined river valley, rising defining historic land uses in the hotels, three European stores, four towards the Crown Range Pass. Crack absence of former buildings. The Chinese stores, four butchers, a Willows and Poplars are the dominant town’s past is also reflected in the post office, bakery, blacksmith, bank, tree species in the valley, particularly sluice faces visible around its edges. school, police headquarters and a below the village. A number of other The close connection of the village to jail. Despite only a few historic large exotics are prominent around both its cultural and natural landscape buildings surviving, the remnants of former and existing farm houses. setting is a key component to the that era underpin the character of Village Character. Cardrona today. 1 The valley’s flora features dramatic and Recent development is confined to a attractive seasonal variation providing handful of houses and three clusters of design cues for further planting as well visitor accommodation units. as material and colour palettes.

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1.3 CHARACTER DESIGN PRINCIPLES

Built elements of the village The above key characteristics give rise to the following key design values: The Cardrona Hotel (1) is the most significant remaining building from Buildings are enveloped by a the gold rush era and provides the powerful natural and cultural visual and functional focal point for the landscape community. The simple rectangular façade and minor lean-to form an This means: iconic frontage to the road and screen • Buildings are discrete, small more recent visitor accommodation 1 scaled, yet distinctive forms in additions to the rear. Just next to the the landscape hotel and from the same era are the small post office and store buildings • Buildings reinforce landscape (2). An historic schoolhouse and a hall, views and viewshafts are located approximately 250m north • Buildings are surrounded by of the hotel, within a Council reserve. sufficient space to accommodate mature trees and other vegetation More recent developments include (2 and 4) a small number of stand-alone houses and the relatively large scale 2 • The Village has distinct edges ‘Benbrae Development’ (3), a visitor formed by low escarpments to accommodation complex comprised the east and west and the arrival of multiple stand alone units that take gateways along the highway to styling cues from miners’ huts. A large both north and south. number of Cardrona’s lots remain vacant and, of these, approximately a dozen remain in the ownership of absentee title holders that date back to the gold rush.

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5 The village is anchored around its Buildings are simple and appear highway ‘main street’. handmade, based on the traditional ‘shed’ and cottage forms found in This means: the district.

• Commercial and retail This means: development is focussed on the linear strip of the highway • Buildings are composed of a that starts at Soho Street and primary volume based on simple, runs south approximately 220m, familiar shapes, supplemented and on a (future) village green 4 by secondary volumes such as 5 opposite the Cardrona Hotel verandas, lean-tos and chimneys • This stretch of the highway must • Buildings are oriented and laid transition into a more pedestrian- out on sites relative to one focussed street another to create clearly ‘public’ fronts with entrances and clearly • Buildings here should relate ‘private’ spaces, generally at the positively to public spaces, back fronting up to the highway and village green • Larger buildings are composed of collections of primary volumes • All development in the Village is well connected to the main • Buildings are constructed and street area. clad in basic, familiar materials (5), primarily timber, stone, plaster and corrugated iron • Buildings are clearly visible from the street and are not hidden behind high walls or fences • Colours, signage and fencing reflect the historical context.

6 2 Village Structure

The character of Cardrona Village will change significantly as more of the zoned land is developed. When new development is being planned, the following broad considerations should lead the design process:

2.1 STRUCTURING ELEMENTS (1)

Cardrona Valley/Crown Range road

Cardrona Valley Road transitions to the Crown Range Road at the Cardrona Hotel, the heart of the village. Existing development is located along this north–south road axis. It makes sense for retail and commercial development to coalesce along this strip to benefit from the flow of passing traffic and the existing focal point of the Hotel.

Reinforce the village heart

The full length of Cardrona Valley Road within the village boundaries is too long to sustain a vibrant retail frontage. The Commercial Precinct overlay as shown on the Plan Maps concentrates commercial development on the straight stretch of the road either side of the Hotel and around the envisaged village green.

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7 The village green Connection to the river

The proposed village green is intended The Cardrona River flows through to be located in a central and visible the valley parallel to the road. Yet it location in the village heart on the is not currently visible from the road. east side of the highway, more or less An opportunity exists to integrate opposite the Cardrona Hotel, where this small alpine valley river into it would serve as a social focal point the village fabric. for the community and visitors. The current use of this space as Hotel This can be done by: carparking can in the long-term be offset by on-street parallel parking • Extending Soho Street, up to and along the road. over the river • Creating a lane & vista leading to the river from the village green and/or the main street • Buildings along the riverside establishing courtyards, frontages and activities overlooking their 2 river facing boundaries while Riverside buildings fronting onto river avoiding high walls hedges or fences that create a visual barrier to the river side reserve (2).

8 The movement network / • forms small tight blocks so • enables lots orientated east- Service lane subdivision pattern as to encourage a traditional west, rather than north-south and village development pattern with locating the principal private open A service lane running parallel to The largest undeveloped area zoned dwelling fronts facing other fronts spaces to the rear or the side of the main street is recommended at for expansion of the village lies to across the street and backs dwellings to avoid the challenge approximately 30 to 60m to the east the east of the main road, up to the facing backs across back yards of residents trying to protect their of the ‘main street’ section of the identified river flood plain, and on the (1), while avoiding rear lots privacy by high fences or walls on highway. This would enable deliveries the street edge. opposite bank, up to the sluice face, • has relatively straight streets in and storage areas, and access to once a bridge is constructed. Soho order to provide clear view shafts onsite car parking to take place Street provides the most likely link to connect to the surrounding without detracting from the amenity of through which to forge this crossing. landscape, with particular the street frontage. It could also serve It is important that the network of emphasis eastwards towards as a rear lane to other activities such streets and lanes created: the stream and the clay cliffs / as visitor accommodation with a main frontage to a street or lane further east. • is well-connected and that cul- sluice face de-sacs are avoided in order to encourage walking

12 A good subdivision pattern has houses with low fences facing each other across the street. High walls can be used at the rear to provide privacy.

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On-street 2.2 SITE LAYOUT car parking

Soho Street Service alley Main street site design (2) • avoid parking forecourts, and where possible vehicular access Development at ground level along from the street frontage the main street strip and around the • create occasional pedestrian proposed village green should be Shared space lanes to access activities at the pedestrian/ retail/ commercial/ tourist related and rear of the site and beyond needs to front onto, and interact with, service lane the main street and village green. • align the main walls and rooflines To achieve this: parallel to the street boundary • build up to, or within 2m of, • avoid parking layouts requiring the street (or village green) vehicles to reverse onto Cardrona boundary, except where creating Valley Road. a pedestrian amenity forecourt,

Cardrona Valley Road such as an outdoor eating area All buildings • create an active edge of front street or shopfronts and entrances facing Village Green the street (or village green) • locate service, storage and any on-site car parking at the rear of the site

2 Village Green indicative layout

10 Visitor accommodation site design • set accommodation units a minimum 3m from the street A large proportion of future frontage or neighbouring sites development within Cardrona • locate on-site parking to the is anticipated to be for visitor rear or side of the buildings and accommodation. The scale of avoiding parking forecourts development should respect the fine grained scale fitting for a small rural • limit the building footprint to 50% 1 Aerial village and be laid out in a manner of the site area that supports an intimate pedestrian • limit the height of visually solid Diagrams illustrate streetscape. To achieve this: front garden walls or fences to traditional residential 0.9m lot layouts with houses • break down larger scale fronting streets, low developments into several • restrict development to three front fences and adjoining footprints storeys - the 12m maximum recessed garages. • arrange such footprints in a height for visitor accommodation manner that private and semi- buildings within the zone enables private courtyards are created the expression of traditional gable roof forms, but is not intended to • align the main walls and rooflines enable a fourth storey parallel to the street boundary • avoid parking layouts requiring • ensure main entrances address vehicles to reverse onto Cardrona and enliven the streetscape Valley Road. with such features as entrance canopies, verandas or porticos

2 Plan

11 Residential site design (1 and 2) • plan the building layout so that the main living area opens directly In addition to visitor accommodation, to a sunny outdoor living space future growth can be anticipated to • locate dwellings at least 3m from attract people who choose to live street fronts and 1m from side or in Cardrona for the attractions and rear boundaries amenities afforded by the setting, as well as for work opportunities. It • limit the building footprint to 50% is important that future residential of the site area development supports the desired • locate garages further to the rear traditional village structure. Therefore: of the site than the main frontage • create discrete individual dwelling of the dwelling with straight line units access from the road • create public fronts facing the • where possible, combine street and private backs driveways to rear parking with neighbours 3 • provide a small front yard for each unit that can allow visitors • limit the height of visually solid Excessive cut into natural contours to cross a threshold (front gate), front walls or fences to 0.9m move through a semi-private and use traditional materials and space, before arriving at the front designs including schist walls and door to the private realm picket fences. Occasional high hedges are encouraged • include a transitional structure, such as an entrance canopy, • avoid parking layouts requiring porch or veranda at the front vehicles to reverse onto Cardrona entrance facing the street Valley Road. • locate a kitchen, living or dining space with a window facing the street

12 Earthworks

The natural contour of the land should be respected and should not be significantly disrupted (3). To achieve this: Mitigate cuttings with replanting • minimise earthworks and avoid excessive cut and fill in all land modifications for subdivision, and site works to establish building platforms, driveways, streets, and lanes; restrict retaining walls to a 2.5m max maximum height of 2.5m • when retaining ground higher than 2.5m, a second retaining wall should be set back a minimum of 3.5m from the first and should also be restricted to 2.5m in height (4).

2.5m max

3.5m min 4 Maximum heights for retaining walls 13 3 Building design

3.1 BUILDING CHARACTER

A ‘key community outcome’ identified The shed lends itself more readily to Early cottages were small and usually in the Cardrona 2020 Community Cardrona where there is an anticipated single storied, consisting of a small consultation process in 2003 is “to demand for visitor accommodation shed-like primary volume adorned enhance the historic theme in the main and the zone rules enable buildings up by lesser secondary elements such Cardrona township area and for all to 12m high. Early examples of large as a veranda, lean-to and chimney. new buildings to respect the existing sheds include the former three storied However this building type can also character and scale of the township”. Brunswick Flour Mill at Kawarau Falls, successfully be adapted to the larger 1 Relatively little is left of Cardrona’s and the Arranmore Stable next to sizes demanded by contemporary uses historic building fabric. In order to find the runway at Queenstown airport. through the aggregation of several The shed appropriate design cues for the types Recent examples of contemporary primary and secondary elements. of buildings anticipated in Cardrona, interpretations of the shed are the Alternatively a grouping of discrete it is necessary to search wider in Club House at Jacks Point (3) and the small cottages can collectively form a the Queenstown Lakes District. Amisfield winery near Lake Hayes. visitor accommodation complex. In The buildings of the early settlers, such instances it is important that a in particular the rural shed (1) and traditional neighbourhood site layout the cottage (2) provide examples of is adhered to in accordance with buildings that sit well in the dramatic the residential site design principles landscapes and can be adapted to above, and the repetition of the same 2 contemporary uses without losing or similar unit type throughout the The cottage the defining features of their identity. complex is avoided. These building types are based on simple, easy to construct forms.

3 The shed redefined

14 20.0m Traditional building components Secondary elements (6) include: • Lean-tos of a width up to 8.0m The primary element of the shed (4) is 2/3rds the width of the primary composed of: structure added to any side with 4 Primary element shed • a rectangular footprint up to 20m roof pitches between 8 and 20 long and 8m wide degrees • a gable roof pitched between 25 • Strong fireplaces and chimneys to 40 degrees with minimal or no typically located at the gable end eve overhang • Verandas and porches (usually in • up to a maximum of 3 storeys lean-to form). within a maximum height of 12m • few, if any secondary elements adorning the primary form. 5 Primary element cottage

The primary element of the cottage (5) is composed of: • a rectangular footprint up to 12m long and 5m wide • hipped or gable roofs pitched between 25 to 40 degrees with minimal eaves • usually one storey, but occasionally two storeys within a maximum height of 8m.

6 Cottage combining primary and secondary elements

15 Larger Buildings To activate the street façade of main street and village green buildings: • Larger buildings can be composed of groups of adjoining • use simple, familiar building primary elements (1) and forms (3) built up to, or within secondary elements two metres of the street or village green boundary • Each primary element should have a discrete roof form • form shop fronts and entrances along the street edge • Exact repetition should be 1 avoided with subtle variations • add verandas and shopfront introduced to the forms parapets (avoiding overstated Two primary forms and secondary link support structures) • Arrange the primary volumes to define usable outdoor spaces. • provide between 40% and 60% of openings (windows and doors) Main Street and Village Green to the below veranda component Buildings (2) of the façade • express the façade depth by Along the 210m stretch between avoiding windows flush with the Soho Street and the change in cladding (2) direction of Cardrona Valley Road just north of the Rivergold Way • provide level access between the intersection, buildings may be built up footpath and the internal ground to the street boundary, but should not floor. exceed two storeys and 8m in height within 15m of the street frontage.

2 Main street corner building

16 The Cardrona Hotel Residential Buildings

• Façades of new buildings should New residential buildings should not be overly elaborate so as to be composed of the primary and compete with Cardrona’s iconic secondary elements of the traditional signature building. This collection cottage, and on occasions the of single storey buildings and traditional rural shed with a maximum the associated historic post height of two storeys and 8m (4). office and store need to be set apart from other development in The primary element of each house 3 order that this distinctive form should address the street in the Archetypal main street building forms is not overwhelmed by any new following manner: neighbours • The street façade should be • A gap of at least 3m should parallel to the street boundary be provided between these and incorporate the entry door historic buildings and any new and windows development. • Where a veranda facing the street is proposed it should occupy the full width of the street façade. Details such as brackets and post mouldings should be restrained and simple • The components of the veranda should not be larger than required for structural support. (150 x 150mm posts would be oversized) 4 • Symmetry and non-functional ornaments should be restricted to The primary elements of the house should address the street the street façade. 17 Visitor Accommodation Buildings • Groupings of separate buildings Signage and Shop Front Lighting • Above ground floor signage should each address the public should be restricted to building Visitor accommodation developments streetscape or laneways within Design signage and lighting as an names in cut out lettering or take on a number of different formats the private development in integral part of the building façade (2). painted directly onto the façade from single multi-unit buildings to a manner set out above for This will help reduce visual clutter residential buildings • Avoid ubiquitous corporate groupings of individual units and an and maintain the integrity of the signage, colours and ‘chain associated office unit. These formats • Visitor accommodation buildings overall site design. brand’ architecture can readily be adopted to fit within should not exceed three storeys • Signage needs to reference the the constraints of the traditional • Buildings occupied by in height, however groupings of historic Cardrona character (3), rural shed or cottage building types commercial franchises, cottage forms should generally with regard to size, font style and when treated as aggregations of cells nationwide or international be single storied and should not colours comprising primary shed or cottage exceed two storeys. businesses should show respect components (1). • All signage should be integrated for their context into the architecture of the • An aggregation of primary shed • Shop front lighting (and building forms could accommodate pedestrian canopy lighting) needs multiple units as well as dining, to maintain night time pedestrian lobby and conference facilities, amenity and safety. Design with whereas a grouping of individual restraint so as to avoid a ‘service cottage forms lend themselves to station’ level of over-saturation accommodating individual units Avoid light spill. • Visitor accommodation developments should feature a clearly defined main entry facing the street and parallel to the street boundary

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3.2 MATERIALS

Materials and finishes should be Materials Appropriate for Cardrona • Tongue and grooved boarding is complimentary to the traditional the traditional material for areas palette of materials found in the Those materials traditionally used in such as veranda soffits District. Respecting this limited Cardrona should form the basis for • Timber shingles were also a palette offers an effective way of evaluating which new materials are traditional roofing material and generating cohesiveness. acceptable. are appropriate

The District’s early buildings were • Recycled and re-used materials • Contemporary imitations, in built from the materials at hand, contribute an aged look composite material, aluminium which were typically processed to and in addition enhance the 2 and plastic can replicate the the minimum extent necessary (1). sustainability of the structure by Picket fences are a common feature traditional profiles however The construction process involved avoiding the embodied energy never acquire the subtleties and crafting the buildings with simple costs of new material character of aged timber and, Timber (3) hand tools, with little pre-fabrication • Buildings should typically hence, should be avoided. and components were often recycled. be constructed in a limited palette of materials, with each Timber was the primary structural and building element, be it primary cladding material of the early settlers or secondary, clad in a single in Cardrona. The remaining historical material buildings are all clad in painted weatherboards with either bevel back • New mass production or rusticated profiles. technologies can easily conflict with such a traditional approach and their use should therefore be • Much of the expression of the constrained façade arises from the trim, 3 1 including window and door Cardrona Community Hall • Replicating traditional materials Traditional timber shed facings and boxed corners, which is often unsuccessful. are typically wide timber facings

19 Corrugated Iron (5) Plaster (6)

Corrugated iron is the longstanding There is a tradition in the District roofing material of preference. of using plaster to bag stonework, Traditionally roofs remained unpainted, and in more recent times to disguise with the galvanised iron weathering to the block module in concrete and a mat patina. produce a monolithic surface. This • Galvanised steel is a reasonably can effectively create a sympathetic durable product in the dry contrast to the texture of timber, 4 local environment and remains stonework or corrugated iron. 6 A contemporary mortared schist shed available • Where used, plaster should be either limewashed or matt • Painted or ‘colorsteel’ roofs Materials Not Appropriate painted. have a sheen and consistency for Cardrona Mortared Schist (4) of appearance that lacks the character of the traditional Building materials that try to look weathered appearance, however There is a strong Western and like something they are not, are new paint colours are now Central Otago tradition of building in inappropriate as construction or available with low reflectivity that local schist, traditionally featuring a cladding materials, e.g. fake stone or more closely replicate the duller smeared earth/ lime mortar joint. monolithic finishes over composite mat quality of weathered metal • This style is recommended for all sheet cladding, pressed tile roofing, stone external walls of buildings • Zincalume is too bright and slim profile schist and fibre cement and is also effective for boundary reflective and should not be used. sheet cladding. walls when schist predominates on the associated building 5 • Schist should not be used for secondary elements (other than chimneys), and additions, ‘feature walls’, columns or plinths unless it is also used to clad the primary form. 20

3.3 APPLYING COLOUR

The local flora and geology of the • Provide for timeless colours, not Cardrona Valley offer a wide and what is fashionable. Heritage varied colour palette. It is important colour charts from Resene, Aalto that colours applied to the built form and other manufacturers provide should complement these colours as suitable guidance (avoid colours well as respecting the colour palette brighter in hue than appear on of traditional buildings in the District these charts) (1 and 2). • Consider developing a basic palette for each development 1 Traditional buildings in the region which can be varied between feature subdued colour, particularly buildings. No more than 40% of for the larger areas of cladding, with the buildings in any single large stronger rustic colours used for trim. development should have the Roofs are predominantly grey, rustic same colour scheme red or rustic green. The remaining heritage buildings in Cardrona all • Avoid relying too greatly on feature cream cladding, with strong muted colours, as it can simply darker colours used to express the make a development appear architectural trim and detail. Early depressed and faded (3). 2 photographic records indicate some Splashes of strong colour can earlier buildings were unpainted. greatly enliven a streetscape

• Avoid excessive use of corporate colours that turn buildings into signage • Solar heating panels may breach reflectivity levels over a small area on roofs.

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21 4 Public open space design

4.1 CARDRONA VALLEY ROAD

Beyond the Town Boundary It is important that the road clearly Power lines along the eastern transitions from highway to village side of the road need to be As one travels through the valley, the street at these entrances. undergrounded and their poles removed power of the landscape lies in the • Reinforce and enhance the simple clarity of the transition from the existing groves of columnar • Enable parallel parking along natural alpine grasslands of the valley exotic trees that signify the each side of the road on a grass walls to the modified rural landscape entrance points to the village swale edge of the valley floor, including the sluice and mark the transition from the • Complete informal 1.8 to 2.2m faces visible around Cardrona. This open road to a 70kph zone, while wide pathways along the west needs to be protected from visual phasing out existing beech trees 1 side of the road, using crushed intrusion. Minimise the visual impacts North entrance of man-made structures on the road • Narrow the carriageway between gravel or limestone. Avoid the edge such as utility poles and signage. the village entrances and the use of a raised kerb and channel; For example the new power poles village core to slow the traffic instead use concrete nibs under recently installed up Cardrona Valley and clearly indicate a change of road edges to avoid edge break. Road have a greater visual impact than road character Separate path from parking/swale by at least one metre the old posts that are of a smaller scale • Introduce a line of street and have an historical visual reference. trees (such as fastigiate Oak • Introduce street lights at regular or Hornbeam) at intervals intervals between street trees – Entrances to the Village of between 15 and 30m as see ‘Palette of Materials’ section permitted by underground • Avoid introducing excessive The township features a variety of services along both sides of the clutter by way of traffic and 2 established exotic trees associated road from the village entrances parking signage or bollards. with its early settlement. However at both ends and up to the South entrance street trees along the road itself are identified village core, to clearly restricted to the clusters at each end mark the linear extent of the that signify the entrances (1 and 2). town, enhance containment of Upright columnar exotic varieties are the road edge and assist in effective in this and other locations traffic calming. however the use of native beech is out of context.

22 Transition Zone The Village Core however keep clear of stretch of heritage buildings along west side • Introduce a transition zone on • A distinct and more intense either side of the village core, character is sought through this • Create crushed gravel pathways between the 70kph zones and section to reinforce its role as the without raised kerbs along both the ‘mainstreet’ component of the village focal area. Further narrow sides of the road village core down the carriageway through • Continue the line of street lights the village core to encourage • Create two new thresholds from the transition zone, except traffic speeds safe for informal between the 70kph zone and a in the immediate vicinity of the crossing (approximately 30kph). central 50kph zone by locating hotel where existing heritage Avoid using a flush median to the last two fastigiate varieties lamps are retained (1) keep the width constrained directly opposite one another • Integrate the placement of large and close as possible to the • Underground the existing rocks into the landscape and carriageway and vary the overhead power lines along consider using this at control paving treatment to a rough the east side of the road, in points for pedestrian crossing cobble effect an alignment that avoids the area in front of the hotel proposed alignment of street • Introduce a line of smaller street trees below • Limit streetscape furniture trees from the varieties (other materials to timber, stone and than fastigiates) on page 26 at • Enable parallel parking in steel between 15 and 30m spacings compacted gravel swales on 1 both sides of the road, where the • Use black for the colour of the • Enable parallel parking along Entrance to village reserve width permits. However light poles and limit the colour each side of the road within exclude parking in front of the of other furniture to the natural grass swales Hotel frontage colour of the construction • Continue the line of street material such as timber and stone • Introduce smaller exotic lights from the town boundary deciduous trees (distinct from • Avoid visual clutter including thresholds entrance and transition zones) overstated and/or superfluous • Avoid introducing excessive to both sides of street at 15 to bollards and road signage clutter by way of traffic and 20m spacings between parallel inappropriate in the village core. parking signage and bollards. carparks (incorporating irrigation)

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4.2 VILLAGE GREEN

A village green is proposed opposite • Design to accommodate multiple • The predominant surface should • Further reinforce edges and the Cardrona Hotel and is envisaged outdoor community uses from be lawn with low alpine planting create informal seating using as an informal open space clearly picnics, outdoor market days and and small scale exotics (see large locally sourced stones. defined by the active edges of community festivities Tree Schedule below) for edge buildings around its perimeter. definition prior to realisation of active built edges

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4.3 SECONDARY STREETS AND LANES

• Create an informal character and • Although a rural ‘feel’ is avoid raised kerb and channel envisaged, aim for a high level of amenity, including street furniture • Consider lanes that are shared by and lighting. Focus on quality pedestrians and vehicles and robustness in materials and • Include on-street car parking on finishes and avoid over-design lanes to minimise the amount or elaborate detail. Include street of on-site car parking and to trees of a scale appropriate to use space efficiently, as space the narrow intimate scale of the for moving is also used for lanes. Consider a rustic style manoeuvring. These spaces of lighting (2). could be formed of semi-grassed permeable pavers or crushed gravel, to avoid the need for painted traffic markings 4.4 RIVERSIDE 1 LANDSCAPE (3) 3

The movement network should be The Cardrona River which flows parallel to the road through the valley is the extended from Cardrona Valley Road principal natural feature within the village. Its wide flood zone, in particular along as a series of intimately scaled rural the western bank, provides an opportunity to create a public amenity area, village lanes conducive to walking as reinforcing the close relationship between the village and its dramatic setting. opposed to urban roads. The following elements should be addressed (1): • Focus on retaining a wilderness quality to this area while enabling public access through narrow informal paths • Provide a low speed environment for vehicles by reducing the width • Base the planting palette on species currently occurring in the river flats and wetlands, however use other willow species than crack willows. of the carriageway 2

25 4.5 LANDSCAPING AND PLANTING IN CARDRONA VILLAGE

The following tree and plant species are appropriate for the public realm in and around the Cardrona Village.

Type Species Common name Height Historic Type Species Common name Height Historic

Exotic Aesculus hippocastanum Horse Chestnut 10m+ Yes Hedges Cupressus macrocarpa Macrocarpa Yes Yes trees Quercus robur fastigiata Fastigiated Oak 15-20m Acer campestre Field Maple Yes Carpinus betulus Buxus sempervirens Box Yes Fastigiated Hornbeam 9-12m fastigiata (& varieties) Corylus avellana Hazelnut 3-7m Yes Carpinus betulus Common Hornbeam Yes Cornus capitata Evergreen Dogwood 7-14m Chaenomeles x Hybrid Flowering Quince Yes Fraxinus ornus Manna Ash 9-15m Coprosma propinqua Mikimiki Pyrus Flowering Pear 5-10m Coprosma rugosa Coprosma Corylus avellena Common or European Yes Juglans regia Common Walnut 10m+ Yes Yes Hazel Malus (old varieties) Crab Apple 4-7m Yes Corokia cotoneaster Zig-Zag Shrub Yes Quercus robur German Oak 10m+ Yes Cupressus macrocarpa Macrocarpa Yes

Escallonia x exoniensis Escallonia Yes Yes Type Species Common name Height Historic Fagus sylvatica European Beech Lavandula angustifolia Lavender Yes Native Hoheria lyallii Mountain Ribbonwood 3m trees Lonicera nitida Honeysuckle Yes Nothofagus solandri (var. Mountain Beech Yes cliffortoides) Lonicera pileata Sophora microphylla Kowhai 4m Prunus laurocerasus Cherry Laurel Yes Rosmarinus officinalis Rosemary Yes Taxus baccata Common Yew Yes Taxus baccata Columnar Yew Yes 'Fastigiata'

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4.6 PALETTE OF MATERIALS – STREETS, LANES AND VILLAGE GREEN

Footpaths, Streets and Walkways

Description Crushed local Grass swales with Crushed local Crushed local ‘Crazy paving’ Chip seal and Crushed local aggregate or Cyprus Oaks at 20 aggregate with aggregate with schist flagstones in grass swales aggregate or grass hoggin, no raised to 40m centres medium sized small deciduous concrete or mortar kerbs deciduous trees trees at approx at approx 20m 20m centres centres Location All footpaths Cardrona Valley/ Swales inside Cardrona Valley/ Pedestrian Lanes with Riverside Crown Range Rd 50kph zone Crown Range crossings vehicular access walkways Swales inside Rd swales, 70kph zone ‘mainstreet’ section

27 Street furniture

Description Standard rubbish Bike stand Bollard Street light We-ef Standard park seat Feature rocks bin lamp on Wilson pole

Location All locations All locations All locations All locations Village Green and As required riverside

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Sourced from the LINZ Data Service and licensed for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 New Zealand licence

The information provided on this map is intended to be general information only. While considerable effort has been made to ensure that the information provided on this map is accurate, current and otherwise adequate in all respects, Queenstown Lakes District Council does not accept any responsibility for content and shall not be responsible for, and excludes all liability, with relation to any claims whatsoever arising from the use of this map and data held within.

0 1,000 2,000 4,000 Meters Map Date: 25/02/2021 ´ Scale: 1:18,056