Selwyn Times: February 14, 2018

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Residents set to meet
with Woods, Sage about quarry
• By Emily O’Connell
WIGRAM MP Megan Woods
and the Green Party’s Eugenie
Sage will meet with residents
on Saturday to talk about
quarrying issues in Templeton
and Weedons.
This follows news that Fulton
Hogan is considering developing
another site, 115ha in size,
on Dawsons,
Maddisons and
Jones Rds.
The firm has a
licence to carry
out exploratory
work on the city
Megan
Woods
council-owned
land.
Fulton Hogan
already has plans to quarry for
up to 40 years on a 170ha section
of land next door. It also
has a proposal for a third site of
21ha on Curraghs Rd.
Templeton and Weedons
residents have expressed their
concerns about the health risks,
water issues and the devaluing
of properties at public meetings
in the past couple of months.
Dr Woods said residents
are doing a “really good job”
and she is looking forward to
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FRUSTRATED: Templeton Residents’ Association members
will discuss Fulton Hogan’s plans to develop more land at a
meeting with Megan Woods and Eugenie Sage on Saturday.
meeting with them.
“My advice to them will
be to encourage them to do
what they’re doing and that is
continuing to make contact and
bring the issue before decisionmakers,”
she said.
When asked whether she will
be an advocate for residents, Dr
Woods said she is going to listen,
see what the issues are and
try and find a solution.
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Although the 115ha section of
land is owned by the city council,
head of resource consents
John Higgins said it did not
know a minerals exploration
licence had been granted.
He said the city council didn’t
issue the licence – New Zealand
Petroleum and Minerals did.
NZPM issued the licence as
part of the Ministry of Business,
Innovation and Employment.
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“The city council has only
granted a grazing licence as
landowner. While Fulton Hogan
has been granted the licence,
it cannot exercise it without
landowner approval. The city
council has not given any such
approval,” Mr Higgins said.
He said the city council will
be following up with Fulton
Hogan.
A MBIE spokesman said
Fulton Hogan was granted the
five-year permit in September
2016.
He said “exploration activities
include surveys, sampling,
aeromagnetic surveys, exploratory
drilling, geological studies,
compiling reports and analysing
data.”
“Any discoveries are then
evaluated for their commercial
feasibility. But before any mining
or extraction can take place
a mining permit is required
from NZPM,” the spokesman
said. However, he said before
work can begin on land, a
resource consent is generally
required. Fulton Hogan were
unable to respond to questions
from Selwyn Times before
deadline.
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LAKE LYNDON FIRE CAUSE
Tracer ammunition may have
been the cause of a scrub fire
near Lake Lyndon last week. The
Springfield and Sheffield volunteer
fire brigades and Department of
Conservation attended the incident
on Lyndon Rd. Springfield chief
fire officer Grant Williams said
it spread over about 2ha. He said
while it is not certain what caused
the blaze, people may have been
shooting with tracer ammunition
in the area.
LINCOLN SKATE PARK
The new skate park in Lincoln is
planned to open at the end of the
month. The skate park is sited next
to the children’s playground outside
the Lincoln Event Centre. District
council community projects
and facilities manager Cameron
Warr said the retaining walls
around the site have been installed.
Contractors are currently pouring
concrete to form the skate park.
NEW SCHOOL PRINCIPAL
Former Broadfield School principal
Mike Molloy has been appointed
as principal of Halswell’s newest
primary school in Knights Stream
Park. The new school will open
early next year and is yet to be
named.
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