Bay Harbour: March 16, 2016
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PAGE 10 BAY HARBOUR<br />
Wednesday <strong>March</strong> <strong>16</strong> 20<strong>16</strong><br />
Contamination<br />
forces closure<br />
of freedom<br />
camping site<br />
Tomorrow will see the end<br />
of freedom campers taking<br />
up residence at Ferrymead’s<br />
Windsport Park and Wainui.<br />
The self-contained site at<br />
French Farm closed immediately<br />
on Thursday after tests showed<br />
the beach was contaminated.<br />
A septic tank had overflowed<br />
and leaked into the harbour,<br />
forcing French Farm’s closure<br />
to members of the public and<br />
freedom campers.<br />
City council chief executive<br />
Karleen Edwards announced<br />
on Thursday that five of its<br />
restricted non-self-contained<br />
freedom camping sites will be<br />
temporarily closed.<br />
Wainui, Addington Park,<br />
Lower Styx River, Windsport<br />
and French Farm would remain<br />
closed until May 31.<br />
It comes after reports of a lot<br />
of freedom camping vehicles<br />
parking up at Windsport Park and<br />
French Farm, overstaying their<br />
allowed time, and the overuse of<br />
the toilets.<br />
Dr Edwards said there were a<br />
number of issues that had made<br />
those sites unsafe for people and<br />
the local environments.<br />
She said the city council took<br />
the well-being of residents and<br />
freedom campers seriously,<br />
and the closures would see an<br />
immediate improvement at the<br />
sites.<br />
“The council continues to<br />
welcome campers to the city and<br />
Banks Peninsula and encourages<br />
them to make use of the range<br />
of affordable camping grounds<br />
across the district.”<br />
Canterbury Medical Officer<br />
of Health Dr Alistair Humphrey<br />
said the safety of beach users,<br />
whether they were freedom<br />
campers or other members of the<br />
public, was paramount.<br />
The Freedom Camping Act<br />
allows the city council to issue a<br />
fine of $200 if someone is found<br />
freedom camping, or making<br />
preparations to freedom camp,<br />
in a local authority area and<br />
in breach of the city council’s<br />
bylaw, including temporarily<br />
closed sites.<br />
The city council intends to<br />
review the closures in May.<br />
INPUT: The new Sumner community facility needs an official name, and residents are likely to be able to<br />
put forward their suggestions.<br />
Community could have say<br />
on name for new facility<br />
Sumner residents may get the<br />
chance to have their say on their<br />
new community facility’s name.<br />
The facility, which will be<br />
built on the corner of Wakefield<br />
Ave and Nayland St, is expected<br />
to open next year.<br />
It will incorporate the community<br />
centre, library and museum.<br />
The city council is looking at<br />
carrying out a similar naming<br />
process to Te Hapua: Halswell<br />
Centre, where residents sent in<br />
suggestions, which were then<br />
short-listed, and voted on.<br />
A joint working group has been<br />
HAVE YOUR SAY<br />
What would you like<br />
Sumner’s new community<br />
facility to be called? Send in<br />
your suggestions to bridget.<br />
rutherford@starmedia.kiwi<br />
representing the Sumner community<br />
so the city council is looking<br />
at whether it and Maori representatives<br />
could consult with the<br />
community on possible names.<br />
They would then compile<br />
all the suggestions with reasoning<br />
behind them, before they<br />
were short-listed.<br />
The community would then<br />
get the chance to vote on them,<br />
or the joint working group and<br />
Maori representation would<br />
choose one themselves and<br />
take it to the Hagley-Ferrymead<br />
Community Board for approval.<br />
The community board will discuss<br />
what process to take at its<br />
meeting today.<br />
The final phase of the design<br />
process on the facility is expected<br />
to be completed next month<br />
and construction is due to begin<br />
half-way through this year.<br />
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