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SOUTHERN VIEW Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>July</strong> 4 <strong>2017</strong> 3<br />
News<br />
Council’s $25m property buy-up<br />
• By Bridget Rutherford<br />
MORE THAN $25 million has<br />
been spent on buying properties<br />
for cycleways, roading projects<br />
and flood remediation in the last<br />
two years.<br />
Figures released under the<br />
Local Government Official<br />
Information and Meetings Act<br />
show since November 2015,<br />
the city council has bought 42<br />
properties and pieces of land,<br />
costing $25.1 million.<br />
Two of the latest purchases,<br />
finalised last month, were<br />
properties in Somerfield that<br />
needed to be bought to make<br />
way for the Quarryman’s Trail<br />
cycleway.<br />
The $915,000 purchase of<br />
the properties, on Roker and<br />
Barrington Sts, was contentious<br />
as the owners were not keen to<br />
sell.<br />
It spent just over $2 million<br />
buying land parcels and properties<br />
as part of the Northern Arterial<br />
project.<br />
They included some on<br />
Winters Rd, and others on<br />
Cranford St and Innes Rd to<br />
make room for Cranford St to<br />
become four-laned as part of the<br />
work.<br />
Some properties were bought<br />
for flood remediation plans for<br />
the upper Heathcote storage<br />
project, the Styx stormwater<br />
management plan, and Bells<br />
Creek.<br />
On top of that 13 houses<br />
and properties were bought in<br />
Flockton Basin at a cost of<br />
$3 million. Some were bought<br />
so the property could be used<br />
for the Dudley Creek Flood<br />
Remediation Scheme.<br />
Seven were properties the city<br />
council had to buy because they<br />
could not be protected from<br />
flooding, even after the $48<br />
COSTLY:<br />
The city<br />
council<br />
bought this<br />
$545,000<br />
Barrington<br />
St property<br />
to demolish<br />
and make<br />
way for a<br />
cycleway.<br />
million scheme is completed.<br />
Two street frontages along Lincoln<br />
Rd were bought last month<br />
for its road widening project,<br />
costing $24,240. From 2011 to<br />
November 2015, the city council<br />
spent $65.1 million on property<br />
purchases.<br />
In Brief<br />
GRANT FOR CENTRE<br />
The Pūkeko Centre development<br />
has been awarded a $400,000<br />
grant from the lottery community<br />
facilities fund. The joint venture<br />
between two sports clubs has seen<br />
the relocation of two buildings<br />
from the now closed Freeville<br />
School on to the Parklands<br />
Bowling Club site. The money will<br />
go towards setting up the former<br />
school hall to provide a venue for<br />
indoor sports, performances and<br />
events.<br />
FUMES CAUSE INJURY<br />
A man was taken to Christchurch<br />
Hospital after fumes from a<br />
generator filled the building he<br />
was in. St John were called to the<br />
scene on Travis Country Drive,<br />
Burwood, at about 7.40am last<br />
Wednesday and found a man<br />
feeling dizzy from the fumes.<br />
Firefighters were called to assist<br />
ambulance staff and he was taken<br />
to hospital with moderate injuries.<br />
QEII DRIVE EXPANSION<br />
Steel safety barriers are being<br />
installed on QE II Drive this<br />
week, from Grimseys to Innes Rd.<br />
There will also be site clearance<br />
work involving tree felling and<br />
vegetation removal along QE II<br />
Drive, allowing work to start on<br />
building two new traffic lanes.<br />
Work is due to finish on <strong>July</strong> 24.<br />
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