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Airport consultation uniformly criticised [ODT, 13/09/19]
If there was one point candidates at a meeting in Wanaka agreed on last night, it was that the Queenstown Airport Corporation (QAC) had done a poor job of consulting over its proposal to develop Wanaka Airport.
Deputy mayor Calum MacLeod suggested the QAC’s consultation would one day be used at universities as an example of how not to do things.
The usually restrained chairman of the Wanaka Community Board, Quentin Smith, described the consultation as “appalling” and council candidate Niamh Shaw described it as “a shambles”.
