Shotover Country

Shotover Country is a suburb of Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand. It has around 810 sections and was originally 202 hectares when first rezoned from rural to residential. The suburb began in 2012 when sections first came up for sale.[1]

Shotover Country
Suburb
Shotover Country
CountryNew Zealand
Local authorityQueenstown
Shotover River
Shotover Country
 (Lake Hayes Estate)
Shotover Delta (Kawarau River)

It is bordered by the older sub division of Lake Hayes Estate and the Kawarau and Shotover Rivers. The main access point is via the main highway of State Highway 6.

History

The area was originally known as Islay Farm before being named Shotover Country which is inspired from the names of the nearby Shotover River and Lower Shotover area.

Fourteen stages of sections came up for sale in November 2012 with the final stage released in June 2016. By 2019 additional stages had been released and a total of more than 20 had come to market by that time, all marketed by the original owners Grant and Sharyn Stalker. In October 2019 the last of the residential sections went unconditional bringing to an end seven years of development, although some commercial and medium density unit development as still to occur.[2]

In 2016 forty-four homes were built by the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust as affordable houses in the sub-division of Shotover Country. Three quarters of the homes were sold to families under the trust's Shared Ownership programme with the remainder going into the rental scheme.[3]

Education

Shotover Primary School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 8 students,[4][5] with a roll of 494 as of March 2020.[6]

References
  1. "The History of Shotover Country". Shotover Country. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
  2. Chandler, Philip. "End of Road for subdivision". Mountain Scene. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  3. Williams, Guy. "44 houses on track for being finished". Otago Daily Times. Allied Press Limited. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
  4. "Shotover Primary School Official School Website". shotover.school.nz.
  5. "Shotover Primary School Ministry of Education School Profile". educationcounts.govt.nz. Ministry of Education.
  6. "Shotover Primary School Education Review Office Report". ero.govt.nz. Education Review Office.

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