Bay Harbour: November 29, 2017

Wednesday November 29 2017
Your Local Views
The updated 2017
Coastal Hazards
Assessment Report has
made climate change
and coastal hazards a
hot topic of conversation,
writes Linwood-Central-
Heathcote Community
Board member, Darrell
Latham
With the updated
assessment report now made
public, the focus of debate is
how we deal with the risks
and how we adapt.
A recent city council
newsletter to residents about
climate change advised that
the city council wants to
explore the options together
with the community to create
the best possible future. To
that end they are facilitating a
series of coastal hazard dropin
sessions for the community.
I encourage residents
and ratepayers to go along
and learn about the issues
they will need to consider
as a community to make
Canterbury’s environment,
economy and their own
coastal lifestyle more resilient
to changing coastal pressures.
There is time and there
are options. The city council
consultation must be genuine.
In order for the city council
to be understood they must
also understand residents’
perspectives.
Affected communities carry
the cost, be it flooding, lack
of development, building
restrictions and insurance
implications. It is therefore
communities that need to be
at the centre of the decision
making process in regards to
how and when we respond.
You are the ratepayer and you
have a voice now and a vote at
election time.
The focus from here needs
to be on adaptation, what
scenario we should adapt
to and if, when and how we
might mitigate risk. Continual
building and planning
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Involving community in climate change
restrictions on residents can
make it unattractive to invest
in areas, and it does makes it
increasingly difficult to live in
the community or to insure or
sell one’s home.
As a Linwood-Central-
Heathcote Community
Board member, from my
perspective there needs to
be a conversation towards
finding suitable sustainable
development options rather
than a continued reliance on
current restrictive policies.
There are options available
that fit in with the wider goal
of a resilient city.
The 2015 Tonkin and
Taylor report on coastal
hazards was criticised as
being scientifically flawed.
The city council had the
report reviewed and we now
have the updated 2017 report.
This document should be
viewed as a living document,
which is open to question
and improvement. Ratepayers
deserve nothing less than the
best science and the best city
council processes.
Your mission: Become
informed, don’t be a shrinking
violet, ask the city council
the tough questions and be
proactive. Remember – you
are the ratepayer and you pay
the bills.
•You can check your
address to find out if
your property is within an
area potentially affected
by coastal hazards and
inundation by clicking on
the link – https://www.
ccc.govt.nz/environment/
land/livingwithwater/
coastalhazards/coastalhazard-zone-propertysearch/
We said:
The city council spent $860,000
on it but users say the Heathcote
Valley Community Centre isn’t fit
for purpose
You said:
BAY HARBOUR
Local
News
Now
PAGE 19
Fire rages, homes at risk
Rob White
– If only
two power
outlets at a
time work then
that becomes a
hazard as the
wiring is not
up to code. And these are the people
overseeing the work done on our houses
repairs in many cases.
Janys Rebecca Harrison – Waste
of money. I’d be really annoyed if this was
in my community, especially if I needed
to use it. I’d be asking some serious
questions.
Daphne Green – Sounds like our
community hall. Toilets for the disabled
that you couldn’t get a wheelchair into.
Took years to fix.
Zane Wilson Young – A heat pump
on a two-hour push button timer would
be $3000 installed. A fraction of the
$860,000 build price.
Judy Ware – Insurance rip-off or poor
council oversight?
Jilly King – This is ridiculous. The
builders had one job.
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