Southern View: July 25, 2017

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Panels may be removed
RSA claims
council
wasted
$25,000
• By Gabrielle Stuart
CONTROVERSIAL $25,000
glass graffiti protection panels
around the New Brighton War
Memorial may be removed,
sparking calls they have been a
waste of money.
The panels
were installed
around the
memorial last
month, but were
criticised by the
New Brighton
RSA and by
Kim Money
people in the
community who
said they were
“horribly ugly”.
The Coastal-Burwood
Community Board is now
considering taking them down
and using lighting, security
cameras and more open
Megan
WOODS
Member of Parliament for WIGRAM
LOOKING AHEAD: The graffiti protection panels around the
New Brighton War Memorial may be removed, sparking New
Brighton RSA executive manager Garry House to say they
have been a waste of money. PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER
landscaping to discourage
vandalism instead.
Board chairwoman Kim
Money has met with New
Brighton RSA representatives to
discuss the idea.
Ms Money said the options
included removing the low walls
your one stop shop!
in the area to open it to the
street, making it less attractive
to vandals.
But Ms Money said there was
no funding currently set aside
for the work, and having it
approved could take months.
New Brighton RSA executive
We welcome you to come along and have a look
manager Garry House said that
was not good enough.
He said the city council had
wasted money on the panels
without properly consulting the
community.
“If you’ve blown the money on
doing something stupid, that’s
no excuse. You’ve just got to find
the money somewhere else,” he
said.
The memorial was vandalised
in 2015, and he said the idea
of protective panels had been
briefly mentioned then, but
there had been no discussion of
it since.
“I understand the council was
trying to do the right thing by
protecting the cenotaph, so I
applaud them for that, but they
went about it very badly,” he
said.
He said the association would
be happy to see the panels left
up as a temporary measure, but
only for a few months.
But Ms Money said the
plan was likely to take some
time to approve, as it would
need to be put to both city
council staff and Development
Christchurch Ltd, the city
council subsidiary responsible
for revitalising the New
Brighton foreshore.
150 comment
on beachside
playground
PUBLIC consultation on New
Brighton’s new $8 million
beachside playground closed
on Sunday, with more than 150
people commenting on the plans.
Work on upgrading the whale
pool playground is due to begin
next month, following the feedback
process run by Development
Christchurch Ltd.
Seating, shading, grassed areas,
and accessibility were key themes
in the feedback.
DCL chief executive Rob Hall
said the feedback would allow
it to build the best playground
possible.
Halswell school
to open ahead
of schedule
•From page 1
The funding for Halswell West
Primary School comes from the
$1.137 billion Christchurch School
Rebuild programme, which aims
to rebuild or renew 115 schools by
2022.
As part of the programme,
11 schools have been completed
in Christchurch, 27 are under
construction and 19 will start
construction this year.
Constituents needing
assistance or wanting an
appointment are invited
to contact me on:
Phone 338 6347
Email: megan.woods@
wigram.org.nz
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