Nor'West News: April 04, 2017

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Dust, noise under investigation
• By Julia Evans
THE CITY council is
investigating a Burnside
contracting company, where
dust and noise is frustrating
nearby residents and businesses.
Head of regulatory compliance
Tracey Weston said two
complaints against the Frews
site in Roydvale Ave are currently
under investigation.
There have
been eight
complaints laid
since June 2015
including the
latest two.
These included
three counts of
Sam
MacDonald
mud and stones
on the road, one
of dust from
storage operation, one for water
connection, one for setting up a
contractor’s yard with no consent
and two complaints that are
still under investigation.
Residents wrote a letter to the
Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood
Community Board alleging that
the company is working outside
its resource consent.
Community board deputy
chairman Sam MacDonald said
the city council’s regulatory
compliance team is investigating
the allegation.
Frews declined to comment
when contacted by Nor’West
News.
“The owner needs to operate
within their resource consent
and I would expect them to do
that,” Mr MacDonald said.
The resource consent issued
by the city council in August
2016 said processing cleanfill
would stop.
That type of work is heavy
industrial but Frews are only
zoned for general industrial.
“Our complaint relates to
the fact that these activities are
still being carried out at Frews
in spite of the issued resource
consent being very clear,” the
letter said.
They also complained about
the constant mess, dust and noise
coming from the site as a result.
“Various complaints to the
council over the past year have
failed to achieve anything,” the
letter said.
In December 2015 the city
council issued two infringement
notices to the company.
For not having resource consent
before occupying land and
also for failure to obtain a building
consent for site placement of
the outbuildings.
They also received a notice to
fix to apply for a certificate of acceptance
for the work completed
and building consent or to
remove all buildings, containers
BUSY: A truck
leaving Frews
supplies yard,
Roydvale Ave.
and the Porta-Com from the
site.
Although the city council was
investigating before he’d received
the letter, Mr MacDonald
said the letter brought the issue
back to its attention.
It comes at a time when families
living next to a gravel quarry
on Old West Coast Rd are forced
to wear dust masks because
of air pollution from a nearby
quarry.
And residents of Guild St in
Richmond faced a similar issue
with Worthington Contracting
– the company since left the
area and moved to a new site in
North Canterbury.
In Brief
FUNDING FOR STUDENTS
Burnside High School students
have had funding approved
towards the cost of participating
in the Spirt of Adventure
Trophy Voyage in June.
Year 10 students Annabelle
Baken, Emma Caldwell, Paige
Cleminson, Anna-Lucy Findlay,
Thomas James, James-Paul
Mountstevens, Tobian Tinker,
Hamish Trenchard have each
had $200 granted to them
by the Fendalton-Waimairi-
Harewood Community Board.
Liam Morrison also had $200
approved from the Papanui-
Innes Community Board.
Teams of students from four
schools compete against each
other over the five-day trip.
Events include teamwork,
problem solving, ship-handling
and water activities.
MAIREHAU PRINCIPAL
In last week’s
article on
funding woes
for a community
group, an incorrect
photo of Mairehau
Primary School
principal John Bangma was
used. The correct photo should
have been this one. Nor’West
News apologises for the error.
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