Southern View: May 03, 2016

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Tuesday May 3 2016
neighbourhood NEWS
SOUTHERN VIEW
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Trust to keep
post shop going
TOM DOUDNEY
Residents of the Linwood
Village area will continue to
have a post shop in their midst,
at least for the time being,
thanks to a community trust.
Te Whare Roimata took over
operations at Stanmore Book
& Post Shop yesterday and is
working on plans to keep it going
as a community-run social
enterprise.
The post shop was run for
the last 27 years by Berwyn
Stevenson but he retired on
Friday.
Te Whare Roimata coordinator
Jenny Smith said
keeping the post shop going
would be a challenge but it was
important for the community.
“The area was very badly
damaged by the February [2011]
quake and we lost over two
thirds of the shopping centre,”
she said.
“It’s a post shop that services
the local area and many
older people, and it has been an
important service and meeting
place for that community for
many years.”
The post shop will be operating
on shorter opening hours
of 9am-3pm for the next month
but will move back to 9am-5pm
after that.
Ms Smith said it had been a
frantic effort to get everything
organised and for people to
learn the systems in time to take
over yesterday.
“We have only had about 10
days to get to this point.”
The trust intends to consult
the community on possible
income generating ventures to
support the post shop into the
future.
The Hagley-Ferrymead
Community Board has granted
Te Whare Roimata $5000 from
its Discretionary Response
Fund for starting the project,
including a feasibility study to
assess its ongoing viability.
Board chairwoman Sara
Templeton said the Linwood
Village area had been under
“significant stress” for some
time but the trust’s move was a
positive step.
“The post shop closing would
be one more real hardship for
that community,” she said.
PROGRESS: Members of the St Martins community were on site
yesterday to mark the beginning of work on their new community centre.
Work starts for new
community centre
Work has begun on the new
community centre for St Martins.
The new centre is being built
on the site of the old St Martin’s
Voluntary Library in Wades Ave
and is expected to be completed
by the end of year.
The voluntary library building
had been badly damaged in the
earthquakes and was demolished
under an order from the Canterbury
Earthquake Recovery
Authority.
It includes space for the voluntary
library, community use
areas, a kitchen, toilets, storage
and outdoor breakout spaces.
“This facility will be a real hub
for the residents with carefully
designed community spaces
and a welcoming exterior,’’ city
council community capital delivery
manager Darren Moses said.
“The spaces within the building
have been designed with
residents in mind and will cater
for a wide range of activities
such as yoga and dance classes,
community meetings and choir
practice.”
The building was designed
by Melbourne-based Plus
Architecture.
The demolition took place in
2014 and funding for the new
building was approved as part of
the city council’s facilities repair
and rebuild programme.
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