Selwyn Times: May 30, 2017

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Parking problem at busy pie shop
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding
OVERCROWDED car parking
at Sheffield’s popular pie shop
has created a spate of roading
issues.
Growing numbers of cars and
trucks parking “dangerously”
outside The Famous
Sheffield
Pie Shop has
the community
calling out for
the district
council and the
New Zealand
Transport
David Ward
Agency to
change the
layout of State
Highway 73, Duke and Vogel
Sts, before an accident happens.
Vehicles backing out from the
pie shop onto SH73, customers
parking on neighbour’s berms
and speeding have all raised
concern.
“We understand we have created
this busy business . . . but
we have never had any help as
far as the district council goes,”
owner Loretta Paterson said.
She said a group of district
councillors visited the area
about four years ago to assess
the car parking issue but nothing
eventuated.
In the past financial year
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DANGER: Trucks parking outside The Famous Sheffield Pie
Shop has raised concerns over traffic having limited visibility
when exiting Duke St onto State Highway 73.
the bakery has an increase of
3000 sales and is planning to
renovate.
Costings are under way for the
bakery to be turned into a cafe
with more seating, customer
toilets, a breakfast menu and
children’s play area.
Following a recent meeting
with Mrs Paterson, the Sheffield/Waddington
Community
Committee sent a submission to
the district council asking it to
improve the roading.
It asked for there to be “no
parking” on the left side of SH73
travelling west between Malvern
Hills Rd and the pie shop.
In the submission, committee
chairwoman Val MacKenzie
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said vehicles are parking dangerously
on the highway and it
needed urgent attention.
Other suggestions included
lowering the speed limit from
70km/h to 50km/h and making
adjacent street, Duke St, oneway
with vehicles exiting via
Vogel St.
This would help stop customers
parking on neighbour’s
lawns on Duke St as well addressing
problems around the
lack of visibility drivers have
exiting the street onto the main
highway due to vehicles parked
outside the business.
Mrs Paterson said the shop
would also like to see Duke St
widened with parallel parking
put on the bakery side, curbing
put in place and 10min parks on
the main road.
The bakery currently has 10
car parks located behind the
building.
But the district council’s chief
executive David Ward said
following an on-site meeting
earlier this month, it was agreed
the community committee
would formally request Duke St
is upgraded.
“That request has not yet been
received, and no decisions on or
commitments on further work
has been made,” he said.
As for lowering the speed
limit, the outcome is unlikely.
A NZTA safety team spokesman
said while it is looking to
improve parking on State Highway
73, the current speed limit
is seen as appropriate.
“However, the transport
agency will investigate installing
larger signs at the entrances of
the township,” he said.
It is estimated by NZTA nearly
1800 vehicles travel through
the township each day.
•HAVE YOUR SAY: Do you
find car parking at The
Famous Sheffield Pie Shop
dangerous? Email your
views to georgia.oconnor@
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ALLEGED SEX ATTACK
Detectives are investigating an
alleged sex attack at Lincoln
University’s halls of residence.
A female student says she was
attacked overnight on Sunday of
last week. Police say the student
and the alleged attacker are
known to each other. Police are
refusing to release further details.
SHEEP SHOT
Police are calling for anyone
who has information on three
sheep shot and left to die near
Wyndon Aviation, Maddisons
Rd, on Friday night. Sergeant
Dan Harker said the sheep were
shot in the paddock with a lowpowered
rifle. Phone Rolleston
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43 per cent more broadband
data than last year. The increase
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