Information about Jack’s Point

Jack’s Point is a 1,270 hectare (3,000 acre) community located in spectacular landscape at the foot of the Remarkables mountain range and overlooking Lake Wakatipu, near Queenstown in New Zealand’s southern lakes region. 

With only five per cent of the land to be built on, the community features large expanses of open space, with over 25 kilometres of walking and biking trails integrated with the Wakatipu trails network.

It is located nine kilometres from Queenstown International Airport (10 minutes), and 14 kilometres from central Queenstown (20 minutes).

Jack’s Point as a whole (including the Village) has its own special zoning rules, known as the Jack’s Point Resort Zone, within the Queenstown Lakes District Council District Plan. The purpose of the Jack’s Point Resort Zone is to provide for residential and visitor accommodation in a high-quality environment, alongside a variety of recreation opportunities and community amenities such as open space, playgrounds and athletic facilities.

Jack's Point was conceived by John Darby and has been nurtured for over 20 years by his firm, Darby Partners Limited, a private equity firm that specialise in real estate, tourism, natural resources and primary production investments.  Darby Partners has engaged world-leading architects, designers and developers to ensure that Jack’s Point will become a real community embraced by all.

Jack’s Point championship Golf Course is regarded as one of the world’s best, and recently received the IAGTO Sustainability Award for Nature Protection 2019.

Darby Partners’ master-planning philosophy is to tread lightly, carefully integrating a new community and activities into the land, with no disturbance to its intrinsic values. Legislation is in place to ensure the open grassland habitat and rocky terrain will always be protected. New wetland habitats have been created, and existing ones regenerated with improved water quality, previously degraded by pollution from livestock farming. Jack's Point has private infrastructure with its own sustainable water supply and decentralised waste water systems.

The layout of the Village is a direct response to the importance of the surrounding mountain views. The buildings, streets and public spaces are orientated to take advantage of these vistas.

The Village has an integrated approach to architecture and landscape. This is being achieved through the creation of treed streetscapes and a series of appealing public spaces and parks. The pedestrian network incorporates best practice urban design principles and incorporates an intimate village environment where pedestrian movement is encouraged by giving it a high priority.

Local materials, tactile surfaces and colour sympathetic to the landscape are essential to the Village design. Architects are being encouraged to explore ideas outside the conventional urban design thinking, while building on this unique environment.

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