The Tāhuna Queenstown Town Centre Masterplan sets out a long-term vision for transforming the historic centre into a compact, vibrant and climate-responsive urban core. Commissioned by Queenstown Lakes District Council, the framework positions landscape, movement and public realm as the primary structuring systems for growth and investment.

The plan responds to Queenstown’s dramatic alpine setting, constrained basin geography and intense visitor economy. The framework recognises the reciprocal relationship between lake, mountain and town, and establishes twelve key moves that recalibrate movement, density and public space in response to this unique landscape and cultural context.

These strategic moves are translated into a coordinated set of transport, public realm and built-form guidelines. New sustainable transport corridors, pedestrian-priority streets and civic spaces are aligned with infrastructure investment through the parallel development of the ILM Business Case process. The masterplan integrates public consultation and stakeholder engagement to ensure that growth supports both community identity and international destination status.

The Queenstown Masterplan now operates as blueprint for long-term transformation - guiding development, infrastructure and public realm design toward a coherent alpine urban identity. It demonstrates how landscape-led urbanism can align tourism, transport and community within a resilient small-city framework.