Queenstown-Lakes District Council

C-23-017 Parking Strategy and Comprehensive Parking Management Plans

Queenstown Lakes District Council (Council) needs a Parking Strategy and associated set of Comprehensive Parking Plans that gives direction to the planning and management of parking that can be applied across the district, considering all other relevant Council policies.
Parking plans, informed by the Parking Strategy, have been previously identified as needed in
Frankton and Queenstown following transport business cases for both areas. Wanaka and other
town centres are also requiring parking plans as parking pressures rise. Over the top of these local
needs also sits the National Policy Statement on Urban Development (NPS‐UD) which requires the
removal of minimum car parking rates in district plan rules, and strongly encourages the
development of Comprehensive Parking Management Plans to manage effects associated with the
supply and demand of car parking.1

The Council needs a process to develop Comprehensive Parking Management Plans (CPMPs) across
the Queenstown Lakes District (the district), which is flexible enough to address the unique nature of
the different parking circumstances facing communities but is also solidly linked to the Parking
Strategy and considering the effect of any parking changes on the wider transport network usage.
This includes methods to address parking changes as they occur, whether it is the supply of new
parking facilities, or the removal of parking for other uses. The process needs to be able to be
followed by Transport Management Associations (TMAs) and other community associations,
developers, council staff or anyone else who needs to, or wants to, develop CPMPs in the district.
This process also needs to be applied, reviewed, and updated within this project to ensure it is fit for
purpose.