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WESTERN NEWS Tuesday <strong>January</strong> <strong>31</strong> <strong>2017</strong> 3<br />
<strong>News</strong><br />
Complex debate rolls on<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
DENTON PARK, Kyle Park<br />
and Warren Park are the last<br />
location options left standing<br />
for where the new Hornby<br />
Library, service centre and<br />
south-west pool will be built.<br />
At an extraordinary public<br />
meeting today, the board will<br />
decide on whether to start or<br />
defer consultation to consider<br />
more options for the $13<br />
million project.<br />
THe Halswell-Hornby-<br />
Riccarton Community Board<br />
narrowed the location options<br />
down from 11 to three at a<br />
public-excluded briefing last<br />
Tuesday.<br />
It comes after community<br />
board member Debbie Mora<br />
questioned last week whether<br />
there was even a need for a new<br />
library in Hornby.<br />
She told <strong>Western</strong> <strong>News</strong> there<br />
is a perfectly adequate library<br />
in Hornby and it was unfair to<br />
the ratepayer to spend money<br />
lavishly.<br />
Statistics showed the current<br />
Hornby Library had 174,178<br />
visitors in the last year which<br />
averaged out to 3350 per week.<br />
Location options ruled out<br />
by the community board for<br />
the facility is the old Sockburn<br />
DECISION: Denton Park is one of three location options for<br />
the new Hornby Library, service centre and south-west pool.<br />
School site, the current Hornby<br />
Library site, the old Sockburn<br />
service centre site, Wigram<br />
Skies and Sockburn<br />
Park.<br />
Options considered<br />
that are no longer<br />
available were Hornby<br />
High School, the<br />
Branston Intermediate<br />
School site, 350 Main<br />
South Rd and the old<br />
bowling club site on<br />
Chalmers St.<br />
Deputy chairwoman Helen<br />
Broughton (below said the<br />
board has decided to go with<br />
options where the city council<br />
owns the land so there<br />
is no cost and no risk of<br />
delay for construction<br />
through lengthy<br />
property negotiations.<br />
She said the board<br />
will need to decide<br />
today on whether<br />
to recommend one<br />
preferred location<br />
option to the city council or<br />
openly consult on all three<br />
locations.<br />
“It is an important meeting<br />
but it is not the last step . . .<br />
anyone who has got concerns,<br />
ideas or suggestions will<br />
certainly be able to make a<br />
formal submission,” she said.<br />
Members from the Hornby<br />
Cricket Club and Hornby<br />
Rugby Football Club concerned<br />
about losing their sports<br />
grounds on Denton Park will<br />
attend the meeting.<br />
A city council report said<br />
Denton Park is a central<br />
location convenient for a wide<br />
cross-section of users and<br />
there are “potentially excellent”<br />
opportunities for integration<br />
into the park from the facility.<br />
Board chairman Mike Mora<br />
said he believes there are some<br />
locations that still need to be<br />
considered but they will emerge<br />
at the meeting today.<br />
THe meeting on the location<br />
options will be held at the<br />
Upper Riccarton Library at<br />
4.30pm<br />
•HAVE YOUR SAY: Where<br />
would you like to see<br />
the New Hornby Library,<br />
Service Centre and South<br />
West Pool placed? Email<br />
your views to georgia.<br />
oconnor@starmedia.kiwi<br />
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CTV, which ended as a television<br />
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“We are unashamedly local and<br />
www.star.kiwi, like our free print<br />
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Star Media chief executive Steve<br />
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