Change – not all of it welcome – is on the horizon around the Wakatipu with a bundle of major announcements and implications for housing, lifestyle and healthcare. The Government and Queenstown Lakes District Council signed an affordable housing accord, a new retirement village has been announced for Shotover Country and, finally, there appears to be a timeframe for and a commitment to replacing the Kawarau Falls bridge. In a not-so-welcome announcement a Southern District Health Board strategy document raises the possibility of a trust running Lakes District Hospital, in line with rural hospitals in other parts of Otago. The suggestion has angered the hospital doctors’...
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