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6 Tuesday December 5 2017 Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi PEGASUS POST Get Your Jingle on @ JuST INCREDIBLE don’t forget the pets dress-up bling fun, funky & traditional ornaments bows, cards, gift labels, wrap & more elf magic lots of treasures to discover santa stockings & sacks a christmas hat for everyone huge selection in store! Pop up christmas store at South city Centre • The Hub, Hornby • New Brighton Mall • Barrington Mall • South City Centre
PEGASUS POST Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Tuesday December 5 2017 7 News Legal action threatened over flooding •From page 1 “Also, we pay rates, which makes (city council) liable in my opinion. However, that defines determination in front of the courts,” Mr Kristinsson said. How a potentially expensive legal case would be funded is unknown. “We will address that if it comes to it but I sincerely hope that we have a responsible local government that it doesn’t have to come to that.” The notice mentions a number of errors and ‘neglect’ in the area since the earthquake. This includes an error found in city council flooding mapping, resulting in a number of houses being built with extremely low floor levels. “A School band in recording studio • By Sophie Cornish AWARD-winning Chisnallwood Intermediate School band Class Disruption joined the big league last week, recording an original in a studio. Earlier this year, the band won national competition Bandquest, the intermediate UNHAPPY: Hugo Kristinsson helped compile the notice of liability to the city council. PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER serious mistake for which no one has been held accountable,” said the notice. school’s version of Smokefree Rockquest. As a prize, the band were given the opportunity to record a song and video in Orange Studios, one of the more well known studios in the South Island. The band recorded their winning song Take It Away These houses required no resource consents and were built using ‘existing use rights’, an and created the video complete with smoke machines and a light show. “It was a really fun and amazing experience,” said band member Dylan Jonkers. Take It Away was written by Dylan and is about having confidence in yourself and not exemption under the Resource Management Act with floor levels as low as 11.27m above the Christchurch city datum. “This is a breach of the Building Act, yet the council has taken no action to compensate the affected homeowners or to remedy their increased flood risk and loss of property,” the notice reads. A temporary stop-bank exists on Kibblewhite St. It is less than 20m from housing directly opposite and is the only protection for a number of houses that are at a lower level than high tide. River water leaks through at high tide and the stop-bank was almost breached during the flood event in July this year. giving up. The prize also included $3000 for the school’s music department. The band is made up of Dylan Jonkers (vocals, songwriting and bass), Sho Woodhouse (drums), Hiromu Crosado (keyboard) and Jacob Carey (guitar). BURWOOD HOME OF THE $ 40 SERVICE FESTIVE SPECIALS FOR YOU SHOP HOURS Mon-Fri 8.30am-5.30pm. Sat 9.00am-4.00pm Ph: 383 2114 269 Burwood Rd, Burwood Lay-by available Helping us, Helps tHe community Drop off or buy 3 family stores in your community 4 Restell Street, Papanui Ph 03 352 0515 50 Charles St, Kaiapoi Ph 03 903 0017
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