Silver Creek's silver lining: 290 more homes

Silver Creek's silver lining: 290 more homes
Creekside is envisaged as the first part of the staged development. (Image: SCL)
Brent Melville
The much-delayed Silver Creek hillside development, touted as ‘Queenstown’s highest’, has been consented by the district council after a 24-month application process.Its developers say the delays are due to the council's rolling scrum of density rule changes.Silver Creek developer and shareholder Gavin Moore said the resource application, which extends to more than 460 pages, was extended by changes to subdivision rules around both serviceability and density. Moore said the density rules had changed three ti...

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