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WESTERN NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>February</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 3<br />
<strong>News</strong><br />
Skate park delays for Halswell<br />
• By Emily O’Connell<br />
TWO PROPOSED Halswell<br />
skate parks have been delayed<br />
again.<br />
The Halswell Domain and<br />
Knights Stream skate parks are<br />
now expected to be ready by<br />
November and June this year,<br />
respectively.<br />
Initially, the facilities were<br />
supposed to be skate-ready by<br />
January.<br />
But in<br />
December,<br />
city council<br />
head of parks<br />
Brent Smith<br />
said the<br />
“main skate<br />
facilities will<br />
David Hawke<br />
be completed<br />
April, with<br />
landscaping<br />
completed in May.”<br />
This was because the resource<br />
consent process for the domain<br />
skate park took longer than<br />
expected.<br />
Mr Smith said the further<br />
delay is because “city council<br />
staff requested more information<br />
after the resource consent<br />
application.”<br />
“City council staff will<br />
also need to factor in the<br />
HOLD-UP: The Halswell Domain and Knights Stream skate parks have been delayed for a<br />
second time. <br />
existing work commitments of<br />
the preferred contractors<br />
before setting a start date,” he<br />
said.<br />
Halswell Residents’<br />
Association secretary<br />
David Hawke is “extremely<br />
disappointed” with the delay.<br />
Mr Hawke had hoped both<br />
skate parks would have been<br />
completed by the end of the<br />
city council’s financial year on<br />
June 30. He said the delay will<br />
mean “there’s virtually a whole<br />
year of children who will miss<br />
out.”<br />
“Young people are valued parts<br />
of the community, and every<br />
time you delay them you’re sort<br />
of disadvantaging them,” Mr<br />
Hawke said.<br />
Mr Smith said the sites have<br />
been tendered since going out<br />
on November 16, but “start<br />
dates are yet to be set.”<br />
He said the city council does<br />
have “preferred contractors<br />
for each site” and it’s allowing<br />
three months to construct each<br />
facility.<br />
Mr Hawke said that when the<br />
skate parks are built they will be<br />
“fantastic,” especially for helping<br />
to solve youth issues in the<br />
community.<br />
“An ounce of prevention is<br />
worth a pound of cure, my<br />
grandmother would have<br />
said.”<br />
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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
QUAKE CEMETERY SERVICE<br />
The Friends of Avonhead<br />
Cemetery will hold a memorial<br />
service at the cemetery to<br />
commemorate the anniversary<br />
of the <strong>February</strong> 22, 2011,<br />
earthquake. The ceremony<br />
will start at 12.15pm. Flowers<br />
will be provided for visitors to<br />
lay at the memorial. A minute<br />
silence will be observed at<br />
12.51pm to mark the time the<br />
quake struck. A video of the<br />
commemoration can be viewed<br />
at friendsofavonheadcommunity.<br />
com<br />
ROAD NAME DECISIONS<br />
The Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton<br />
Community Board will decide<br />
tonight whether to approve 10<br />
names for roads in the Riccarton<br />
Park, Quarry View and Country<br />
Palms subdivisions. The names to<br />
approve are Manakura St, Grey<br />
Way Rd, Horoeka St, Leyland<br />
Lane, Gammack Drive, Sheehan<br />
St, Billington Drive, Flynn Lane,<br />
Saxby Lane and Fairbairn Close.<br />
AYR ST PARKING CHANGE<br />
A decision on changing car parks<br />
along Ayr St, Riccarton, to 90<br />
degree spaces is set to be made<br />
tonight. The Halswell-Hornby-<br />
Riccarton Community Board<br />
will decide whether the proposed<br />
changes, which would cost $3000,<br />
will go ahead.<br />
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