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8 Tuesday August 16 2016 News SOUTHERN VIEW Fence up in bid to make dangerous site safer WOOD BROTHERS Mill in Addington has been fenced off following a city council-issued dangerous building notice. Numerous fires have damaged the building and it has been the target of vandalism. The police, fire service, city council and owner John Cameron met recently to discuss a plan to tackle the safety issues. It was damaged in the September and February earthquakes, which resulted in it being red-stickered. The dangerous building notice for 14 Wise St was issued under the provisions of the Building Act 2004. The fence will restrict access to the site, the city council also requested the sprinkler system be re-commissioned to allow firefighters to extinguish fires without entering the building. Mr Cameron said the sprinkler system, while not compliant, is back up and running. The fence will remain while the dangerous building declaration is in force. Ferrymead seeing red over a green building • By Annabelle Dick A NEW Cares Appliances premises in Ferrymead has attracted a number of complaints from residents over its bright green colour scheme. The whiteware appliance store has coped criticism before their new building has even opened on Ferry Rd. It is set to open in early September. Cares Appliances owner Matthew Carpenter said it was the first time he had received complaints, in spite of his business being in the city for 10 years. “I had a complaint that said the colour was terrible and disgusting. I’ve also had comments from third parties who’d seen the colour and were put off by it,” Mr Carpenter said. The new premises drew the following criticism via text: “It looks disgusting. Contributes nothing to Ferrymead. You won’t get any support bringing that here . . . sorry! Already the We accept all supermarket dockets up to 15c off * *conditions apply 15 talk of the community. Just so you know . . . perhaps a re-think? It might work at Eastgate.” Mr Carpenter is welcoming feedback from residents about the premises but he said it was unfair to insult other parts of the city. “It’s cruel of them patronise and disparage the people of the eastern side but obviously someone’s got a bit of an elitist mindset going on,” Mr Carpenter said. Mr Carpenter offered the complainant a discount of 30 per cent out of good will. This isn’t the first store of its kind in the city. There are also several other chain stores in Christchurch on Fitzgerald Ave and Barrington St which have received no complaints for the bright-green colour. “We’ve previously had shops on Wairakei Rd and Aldwins Rd and never had comments about the colours there either,” he said. Ferrymead residents have been successful in ousting a brightly whiteware warehouse coloured business from the area before. In 2007 the Mitre 10 Mega in Ferrymead building attracted complaints for featuring a 160m-long bright orange wall that overlooked the conservation wetland. The company eventually agreed to repaint the wall silvery-white after local residents threatened a boycott. whiteware warehouse world’s best value whiteware STANDING OUT: An artist’s impression of what Cares Appliances will look like when it opens. BY JASON LENNIE “I’m concerned that it’s a repeat of the Mitre 10 controversy where they went from bright orange. I’m concerned people can’t see past greys and browns. In a seaside suburb a bright colour can really add something,” Mr Carpenter said. Bright green will be the base colour for the building which will see blue, red and white added before completion. world’s best value whiteware Organic Training College Learn from the experts Start a career in organics. Reduce your footprint and produce a regular supply of your own fruit and vegetables. Programme Information college@bhu.org.nz www.bhu.org.nz | 03 3253684 Courses • Organic Distance Programme Part time 1 year, enrol anytime • Year 1 Introduction to Organics 44 weeks, starts August 2016 (Lincoln Campus) • Year 2 Applied Organics 46 weeks, starts August 2016 (Lincoln Campus) All fees under $500 Adjustable Bed Sleepmaker Adjustable Frame with Memory Foam Mattress • Head tilt • Foot tilt • Built in night light • Floating • Wall saver • Massage Conditions Apply 111-115 Milton Street | Phone 332-6056 as local as you are www.challenge.net.nz CLEARANCE • Wireless remote • Lumbar support Long Single $2999 SAVE $2650 Queen $3499 SAVE $3400 Open 7 Days Mon - Fri 9 - 5.30pm Sat - Sun 10 - 4pm 242 Ferry Rd Along From Old Ami Stadium | Phone 377 8887 | www.bedworld.co.nz
SOUTHERN VIEW Tuesday August 16 2016 9 Mixed views on second tunnel • By Annabelle Dick THE IDEA of creating a second tunnel between Christchurch and Lyttelton has a community board leader happy but frustrated. A report showed a second road tunnel between Christchurch and Lyttelton will be needed in about 20 years due to growth in freight transport. Lyttelton-Mt Herbert Community Board chairwoman Paula Smith said it was about time a second tunnel was looked at. “There’s been a constant increase in traffic as freight volume increases and it creates safety issues for people moving through the town,” Ms Smith said. Lyttelton Port of Christchurch chief executive Peter Davie said a “guestimate” from an engineer had put the cost of a second tunnel in the region of $500 million and funding it would probably fall to road control authorities. Mr Davie said the logical thing would be for one tunnel to serve port traffic, possibly bypassing Norwich Quay in Lyttelton and connecting directly to the port. “We need it as soon as possible because for years the Lyttelton residents have been asking to get the heavy traffic off Norwich Quay,” Ms Smith said. Ms Smith was upset that a second tunnel is only being considered now as Sumner Rd is being reopened to accommodate freight traffic. “They’re spending between $40 and $60 million dollars to reopen Sumner Rd as a freight route which will only be used by a few trucks and about less than 300 cars a day. We couldn’t believe it was approved because it’s so shortsighted – it’s never going to be a residential route,” she said. “Now it’s approved and underway and they’re going to stuff the landscape on this side . . . only now they’re talking about a freight tunnel? I can’t believe it. Bring it on, we welcome it – but why didn’t someone say this earlier?,” Ms Smith said. She said the Sumner Rd reopening will help in the Lyttelton Port’s reclamation at Te Awaparahi Bay. She said the excavation of material on Sumner Rd will be added to the extension the company is doing to facilitate ROADING NEED: A second tunnel from Christchurch to Lyttelton will be needed in the next 20 years due to growing freight going in and out of the port. increased trade. “They have managed to get the ratepayer and taxpayer to underwrite work that they would’ve had to have done anyway to achieve their long-term goal,” she said. New Zealand Transport Agency director southern region Jim Harland said the tunnel still had significant capacity to accommodate further growth in traffic volumes before a solution would be needed. Increasing the use of rail to the port would also help. NZTA is expected to install a deluge system in the tunnel by the end of next year, involving sprinklers which could be activated in response to a vehicle fire. YOUR VIEWS Spreydon resident Michael J. Brathwaite writes in response of Lyttelton Port Company chief executive Peter Davie’s call for overpasses on Brougham St to tackle congestion issues. Regarding Peter Davie’s suggestion of overpasses on Brougham St, I think it is a good idea as long as it doesn’t become impossible to turn into it from at least some of the side streets, Durham St in particular. However, when travelling towards the port, the congestion starts at the Collins St intersection, where three lanes merge into two, and an overpass will not resolve that problem. Nor will such ridiculous ideas as banning left turns into Collins St or lowering the speed limit there. I notice the only sensible suggestions about resolving the congestion on Brougham St are coming from people like Mr Davie. The traffic engineers have obviously put it in the too hard basket, and motorists like myself are constantly having to protest against the ludicrous suggestions put forward by some of our local body politicians. HAVE YOUR SAY: Do you have a view you would like to share a local issue? Email tom.doudney@starmedia.kiwi 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 • The Durham Street overbridge repairs in Sydenham are scheduled to be completed this month. • Our work in Hoon Hay is now winding up. • Repairs to the wastewater network in Spreydon are now complete. • Fresh water, storm water and wastewater repairs in Cashmere are three-quarters of the way through and are due to finish next month. • Your support is helping us to get the job done, thank you from the SCIRT team. Want more info? Email: info@scirt.co.nz Phone: 941 8999 Find out about work in your area: www.scirt.co.nz Email us on: info@scirt.co.nz to get our: Weekly Traffic Update Monthly e-Newsletter Follow us on Twitter: @SCIRT_info #chchtraffic • Anna McAlpine, Traffic Manager working with SCIRT’s Fletcher team. Programme funded by
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