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Locals Voice

Ideas from locals

Practical fixes, ranked by how many locals back them. Disagreeing is a button too — concerns are counted and shown, not buried.

IssueAllTraffic & TransportHousing & GrowthTown Centre & Liveability
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Town Centre & Liveability

Set a standard for how works are communicated

Agree what businesses and residents can expect to be told before and during works — how far ahead, in what detail, and through what channel.

Gathering support📍 Town centre and surroundsWho should act: QLDC · NZTA · Business community

Trade-offs: Adds process to every project · Timelines genuinely do change · A standard is only worth having if someone is held to it

Put up by Queenstown.com

Nobody's weighed in yet — you'd be first.

Town Centre & Liveability

Fix the evening basics before anything ambitious

Lighting, seating, bins and toilets that work at the times people are actually in town, ahead of anything grander.

Gathering support📍 Town centreWho should act: QLDC

Trade-offs: Not exciting and wins no headlines · Ongoing maintenance cost, not a one-off · Will not by itself bring anyone in

Put up by Queenstown.com

Nobody's weighed in yet — you'd be first.

Town Centre & Liveability

Give locals a standing reason to come into town

A regular, predictable thing in the centre that is aimed at residents rather than visitors — same night, same place, all year.

Gathering support📍 Town centreWho should act: QLDC · Business community · Chamber · Locals

Trade-offs: Needs someone to own it long-term · Competes with existing venues · Dies quietly if it is only funded for one season

Put up by Queenstown.com

Nobody's weighed in yet — you'd be first.

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