20 Mar 2025

Calls for council crackdown on freedom camping in Queenstown

From Checkpoint, 5:17 pm on 20 March 2025

Streets are becoming toilets and rubbish pits.That was one resident's message to Queenstown Lake District Councillors in a call for the council to crackdown on freedom campers. Councillors voted to pursue a new freedom camping bylaw at a meeting this afternoon.The old 2021 bylaw was quashed by the High Court last year. Anna Sargent reports.