Boffa Miskell provided landscape, master planning and urban design expertise on behalf of Sanderson Group by producing a landscape and urban design report, landscape and visual assessment and a full masterplan as part of the EOI. This work was further refined through the resource consent process. The master plan provides for new retirement housing, care/hospital facilities, worker accommodation, community and commercial facilities, as well as public spaces, ecological restoration and infrastructure upgrades. The assessments outlined that the proposed development would result in a new alignment to the urban growth boundary and new urban development within Queenstown.

The master plan will achieve the following key urban design and landscape aspirations:

• promote urban consolidation, a compact urban form and a legible and well-connected development;
• integrate with the adjoining Lake Hayes Estate and Shotover Country housing areas;
• create a new urban residential setting with high amenity;
• mitigate the visual impacts on the surrounding outstanding natural landscape and respond to the rural amenity with a setback to Ladies Mile;
• draw on the prevalent characteristics of the Otago context.