Selwyn Times: August 22, 2017

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Joint developer/council
car park plan given okay
Fashion
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding
A PLAN for joint developerdistrict
council funding for
commercial car parking has
been endorsed by Selwyn
businesses.
The district council is
considering to
Gardening
partially support the
cost of constructing
car parks for new
businesses.
A report on the
funding was put to
the property committee
earlier this
month.
Pat
McEvedy
Motoring
It comes after the district
council was approached by a
developer in Lincoln asking if it
would consider developing car
parks in conjunction with them.
This was because their development
would use the entire site
leaving no room for car parking.
The district council would
not provide the name of the
Tasty Bites
developer to the Selwyn Times.
The standard approach is for
the developer to provide their
own car parking.
But the report said there are
Money
financial benefits to a joint
approach.
Car-parking between The
Laboratory and the Lincoln
Library and Service Centre is a
good example of this.
The Laboratory owner Martin
Bennett said sharing the car
park has worked well.
“The district council provides
the land, we pay for construction.
They are not exclusively
ours but we get to use them,” he
said.
Mr Bennett said district council
funding car parks is essential.
There is no time line on when
the district council will make
a decision or on how much
funding it will allocate.
But councillor Pat McEvedy
said he hopes a decision will be
made as soon as possible.
At a recent district council
meeting, Mr McEvedy called for
a district-wide policy to ensure
businesses across Selwyn were
treated the same.
In September, Selwyn Times
reported a petition from Lincoln
business owners was presented
to the district council to stop
cycleways on either side of
What’s being done
about Canterbury’s
water quality?
Gerald St from being installed.
Lincoln Club president Lynn
Townsend, who organised a
petition, said he welcomed the
idea to have the district council
partially fund businesses’ new
car parks.
“Sense may be finally starting
to prevail . . . the very fact they
are considering some form of
contribution towards provision
of car parking in Lincoln is
definitely step in the right
direction,” he said.
The Lincoln Pantry
owner Phillippa Boa was also in
support of the funding.
She said her business on
Robert St shares about nine car
parks with four other shops.
But Mrs Boa said the planned
cycleway through Lincoln is the
biggest threat to businesses and
owners have a united front an
alternative route needs to be put
in place.
• HAVE YOUR SAY: Do you
think the district council
needs to fund commercial
car parks? Email your
views to georgia.oconnor@
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