The Star: September 08, 2016

10 Thursday September 8 2016
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Council does
U-turn on
Victoria St plan
• By Bridget Rutherford
A REVISED plan to retain
vehicle access on Victoria St has
jumped its first hurdle, in spite
of a petition pushing for the
original plan to make the area
car-free.
On Tuesday, the Hagley-
Ferrymead Community Board
approved a watered-down
version of the city council’s plan
to transform the street into an
“inner-city destination area”.
However, a petition organised
by climate change group,
Generation Zero, calling for the
original plan to be implemented,
has gained more than 720
signatures.
In May, the city council
announced plans to transform
the street as part of its Accessible
City chapter of the Christchurch
Central Recovery Plan to make it
pedestrian friendly.
It involved closing the street
to vehicles, with the exception
of buses and bicycles, from
Christchurch Casino to the clock
tower, and removing 50 car
parks. Shop owners in the area
opposed the plan because they
said it would kill their business.
After public consultation,
the city council proposed the
watered-down version, which
would see vehicle access retained,
and only 31 car parks removed.
The plan is scheduled to be
discussed at the Infrastructure,
Transport and Environment
Committee meeting next
Thursday. It would then make
a recommendation to the city
council.
Generation Zero
representatives would speak
at the committee meeting and
present their petition.
Hagley-Ferrymead
Community Board chairwoman
Sara Templeton said the board
had a “long, robust” discussion
before recommending the new
plan.
However, she said there were
concerns the opportunity to
make a pedestrian-friendly street
could be lost.
Robbery arrests after
armed police swoop
• By Andrew King
TWO 18-YEAR-OLDS have
been arrested in connection
with an armed robbery of a
dairy on Monday.
Properties on Butterfield
Ave, Linwood, and Barton Ave,
Woolston, were targeted by police
yesterday. They were looking
for the suspects who robbed the
Kirk Rd Dairy, Templeton, with
a pistol and metal bar at about
noon.
Reuben Banks, of Linwood,
was arrested and appeared in
court yesterday charged with
aggravated robbery. He was remanded
in custody without plea
until September 22.
Another man arrested at a different
address will appear today
also charged with aggravated
robbery.
Three disguised offenders entered
the dairy. One “manhandled”
the employee from behind
the counter while the other two
targeted cash and cigarettes.
Detective Senior Sergeant Michael
Ford confirmed the search
warrants were in relation to the
Kirk Rd armed robbery.
He said reports of shots being
fired during the Linwood warrant
were false, but a diversion
device was used when entering
the address in Butterfield Ave.
A witness, who did not want
to be named, said the Armed
Offenders Squad used what
looked like a “flash-bang”
grenade before entering the
property.
The Kirk Rd Dairy is just the
latest in a long line of armed
robberies to plague the city in
recent months.
On August 29, a man entered
the Curletts Rd Dairy brandishing
a hatchet and demanding
money and cigarettes around
1pm. It is alleged the same offender
then robbed the Campus
Corner Dairy on Ilam Rd
at about 3pm with the same
hatchet.
On August 25, three men, one
armed with a pistol, entered the
Kendal Food Centre. Two of the
men took the owner into a back
room and punched him, while
the third took cigarettes and
searched for cash.
On August 15, two bars were
targeted by masked men.
The Embankment Tavern on
Ferry Rd and O’Sheas Public
House on Marshland Rd were
robbed by offenders with a
firearm.
They fled empty handed from
the Embankment but allegedly
stole more than $20,000 from
O’Sheas.
On August 9, three balaclavaclad
men entered 24/7 Buns
Bakery, Waltham, armed with a
rifle, a hammer and a bat. One
man threatened staff with the
rifle while another with a hammer
tried to open the till.
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