Bay Harbour: October 11, 2017

Wednesday October 11 2017
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Ferry parking fight continues
• By Emily O’Connell
MORE OPTIONS will be
looked into before bus parking
is decreased at the Diamond
Harbour Ferry terminal in
Lyttelton.
It follows a decision by the
Lyttelton Port Company to
reduce bus parking spaces from
three to one and not provide a
pick-up/drop-off zone.
An urgent meeting was held
by the Banks Peninsula Community
Board with the LPC,
Environment Canterbury and
the city council on Monday.
It was decided
at the meeting
that the LPC and
ECan would look
into more options
and come back to
the board in a few
weeks’ time.
Peter Davie
Diamond Harbour
Residents’
Association
chairman Richard Suggate said
the further investigation is good
but he’s not pessimistic nor optimistic
about the final outcome.
He said the LPC should put
the public interest above their
own.
Community board member
Jed O’Donoghue said he’s
pleased other resolutions will
be considered but ultimately the
DECISIONS: The Lyttelton Port Company and ECan are going
to look into more parking options near the ferry terminal.
PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER
board don’t have the final say.
“At the end of the day we can
only influence them because its
their land,” he said.
An online petition calling for
better public access to the Diamond
Harbour ferry terminal
has attracted more than 230
signatures in two weeks.
Set up by the Diamond Harbour
Residents Association, the
petition calls on the city council
and Environment Canterbury
to “ensure that within 100m of
the Diamond Harbour ferry
terminal, there is adequate bus
parking on the Lyttelton wharf
and that there is a drop-off/pickup
zone for private vehicles.”
Mr Suggate told a board meeting
two weeks ago that the LPC’s
refusal to provide a drop-off
zone would force the infirm,
disabled or with heavy parcels,
to walk from Norwich Quay.
Port company chief executive
Peter Davie said LPC staff met
with the Banks Peninsula Community
Board on July 31.
Mr Davie previously said the
they are working with ECan to
ensure it has minimum impact
on current services and it will
not affect ferry users at all.
He said an upgrade of the existing
Diamond Harbour Ferry
facilities will take place at the
same time as the LPC staff car
park is being built adjacent to
Waterfront House and the work
should be completed before
Christmas.
“We will work with Black Cat
Cruises to enable people to have
access. If there are particular
items that require to be around
50m closer to the ferry terminal
than they can achieve via the
stairs, then we will accommodate
them through the port,’’ Mr
Davie said.
Black Cat Cruises chief executive
Paul Milligan said they had
been involved with discussions
about the issue with LPC and
ECan.
“An ideal site is to move us
down to the west end with the
new marina, which will be new
and there will be room for buses
to move around. But we’re not
going to get that in the near future
so we just need to make the
best of the facilities we currently
have.”
He said that was part of LPC’s
long term plan, but would take
time to come into fruition.
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•From page 1
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