Nor'West News: August 23, 2016

NOR’WEST NEWS Tuesday August 23 2016 5
News
Proposed resident parking
scheme moves up a gear
• By Andrew King
RESIDENTS ARE closer to
getting permits that will allow
them to park on their own street
overriding any time restrictions.
The Fendalton-Waimairi
Community Board and city
councillor Jamie Gough want to
introduce permits so residents
can park in their street exempt
from restricted time constraints.
The board recommended city
council staff arrange a briefing
where resident permits can be
explored and potential solutions
found.
The recommendation was
adopted by the city council at a
recent meeting.
“Parking restrictions are
a necessary evil to promote
vehicle turnover in busy areas.
But the point of them is not to
punish the residents that need to
park in front of their own house
for longer than the restricted
time period,” Cr Gough said.
“I think there’s a better way,
and it’s pretty straight-forward,”
he said.
The permit would over rule
any parking restrictions on the
street outside their property.
Russley resident Ken Legat
said the permit was a fantastic
idea that will start to give
residents the freedom to park
outside their properties.
“Parking is a big problem,
especially for us with the
inclusion of the Airport Business
Park and its employees needing
a space to park near their work,”
he said.
The permits would be similar
to the contractor parking
permits Cr Gough campaigned
for on behalf of a Holmwood Rd
resident.
They allow contractors to
park exempt from restrictions
in suburban streets. That idea is
now being trialled for the next
10 months.
HAVE YOUR SAY: Does the
city council need to bring
in parking permits to allow
residents to park outside
their properties without the
risk of parking fines? Share
your views with us. Email
andrew.king@starmedia.kiwi
Red Electrical; CreateIP;
Silvermoon – finalists in
champion awards
• By Andrew King
THREE BUSINESSES in the
north-west are through to
the finals of the Champion
Canterbury Business Awards.
Red Electrical, of St Albans;
CreateIP, of Merivale; and the
Silvermoon Group, which has
a store in Northlands Shopping
Centre, were all nominated for
this year’s awards.
Red Electrical offers a range of
electrical services and solutions.
It has been nominated in the
infrastructure and trades – small
enterprise category.
CreateIP, founded in 2009,
provides a personal approach to
IP advice, which they believed
was lacking in larger firms. It has
been nominated in the professional
service – small enterprise
category.
Jewellery specialists, Silvermoon
Group, has four stores
throughout the city which have
all been nominated in the retail
and hospitality – medium and
large enterprise category.
To qualify for the small enterprise
category, businesses must
be a stand-alone commercial
Champion Canterbury
Business Award finalists
•Infrastructure/trades –
small enterprise:
Red Electrical, St Albans
•Professional service –
small enterprise:
CreateIP, Merivale
•Retail/hospitality –
medium/large enterprise:
Silvermoon Group,
Northlands Mall
entity with less than 15 full-time
staff.
To qualify for the medium
to large category, the business
must have 15 or more full-time
employees.
A total of 45 businesses across
15 categories have been nominated
for the awards.
The winners will be announced
at a ceremony on September 21 at
Horncastle Arena.
Tickets for the black tie event
can be purchased from www.
cecc.org.nz/events-training/
events/major-events/ccba-2016/
SCIRT programme on the home straight
SCIRT’s five year programme of repairs to pipes, roads, bridges and retaining walls is
almost complete and will finish in December.
Most of our repairs involve fixing the city’s underground pipe networks with only small
amount of our work focused on roads.
Our roading work largely involves fixing where we have dug down to repair and replace
the earthquake damaged pipes beneath. The result may look a little patchy but we repair
roads to a reliable and serviceable standard.
The City Council and NZ Transport Agency will continue completing ongoing repairs to the
city's earthquake-damaged roads after SCIRT.
Progress in your neighbourhood
• Fixing the Northern Relief, one of Christchurch’s biggest wastewater pipes running
through Fendalton, Merivale and St Albans is more than halfway through and will be
completed at the end of the year.
• Essential wastewater repairs in Aikmans Road in Merivale have begun and will be
completed at the end of the year.
• Ongoing repairs to the wastewater networks in Fendalton, Strowan, Papanui and
Bryndwr are due to finish next month.
• Your support is helping us to get the job done, thank you from the SCIRT team.
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