Bay Harbour: September 27, 2017

Wednesday September 27 2017
News
Coastal flooding and
ON THE DOMAIN LINCOLN 3 MARCH 2018
erosion report reaches final stage
• By Bridget Rutherford
AN UPDATED report on
whether coastal flooding and
erosion information should be
included on more than 20,000
property records is being
finalised.
City councillors and community
board members are expected
to be briefed on the Coastal Hazard
Assessment for
Christchurch and
Banks Peninsula
(2017) on October
17, before it goes to
the city council on
November 2.
Darrell
Latham
It follows a
contentious
2015 Tonkin &
Taylor report which identified
nearly 18,000 properties at risk of
coastal inundation and 6000 that
could be susceptible to erosion
over the next 50 to 100 years.
That information was added to
the properties’ Land Information
Memorandum reports.
But a peer review by a panel of
scientific experts last year urged
the city council to remove the information
and do more research
because it could be “legally
unsound”.
The notations were then
tweaked.
City council head of strategic
policy Helen Beaumont said recommendations
from the peer review
of the 2015 report had been
addressed in the 2017 report.
A “rolling review” had been
done by Deirdre Hart, who peer
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UPDATE: City councillors are expected to receive an updated
report on coastal hazards next month.
reviewed the 2015 report, to
make sure the 2017 report met
those recommendations, she said.
Ms Beaumont said it would be
the best current information on
coastal hazards, with a range of
climate change scenarios for erosion
and inundation.
Once received by city councillors,
a “long-term engagement
process” would begin, focusing
on how to adapt to challenges
facing the coastal communities,
she said.
Christchurch Coastal Residents
United has been fighting to have
the information removed from
LIMs because it could devalue
their properties and affect future
insurance coverage.
Member Darrell Latham said
it unsuccessfully pushed to have
more than one peer reviewer for
the 2017 report.
“We’ve missed an opportunity
for a balanced review by having
only one peer reviewer undertaking
this work.”
But Ms Beaumont said Dr Hart
consulted with various members
of the peer review panel to ensure
her comments were consistent
with the wider panel’s views.
“Multiple reviewers were not
required as Dr Hart was familiar
with the scope and intent of
the recommendations.” Ms
Beaumont said in Southshore
and South New Brighton, the city
council would work with Regenerate
Christchurch to engage on
The Southshore and South New
Brighton Regeneration Strategy.
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COASTAL PATHWAY
The Christchurch Coastal
Pathway won’t be able to
access New Zealand Transport
Agency funding after the city
council declined to include it
as part of its major cycleway
route programme. Due to
the coastal pathway already
having on-road cycle lanes, the
city council decided it could
not include the new pathway
within the MCR programme,
which would have allowed it to
access NZTA funding for the
Moncks Bay-Shag Rock section.
KERERU COUNT
People are being asked to
report sightings of kereru
on Banks Peninsula as part
of an information-gathering
project on the numbers and
distribution of the native
pigeon. Until Sunday, anybody
who sees one of the birds is
asked to log the sighting at
www.greatkererucount.nz
or www.naturewatch.org.nz.
Known as the ‘gardeners of the
skies’, Kereru play a crucial role
in dispersing seeds from the
fruit of native trees, making
them an essential part of forest
regeneration.
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