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Wednesday <strong>February</strong> <strong>28</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
News<br />
Push to get pathway funding<br />
• By Sarla Donovan<br />
THE COASTAL pathway has<br />
been put into the city council’s<br />
draft Long Term Plan.<br />
Heathcote Ward city<br />
councillor Sara Templeton<br />
last week pushed through an<br />
amendment to the draft LTP to<br />
try and prioritise what she said<br />
was a “key piece of community<br />
infrastructure.”<br />
The fourth<br />
and final<br />
stage of the<br />
Christchurch<br />
Coastal<br />
Pathway<br />
between the<br />
Sara<br />
Templeton<br />
Moncks <strong>Bay</strong><br />
tram stop<br />
and Shag<br />
Rock corner<br />
– expected to cost between<br />
$10 million and $12 million –<br />
currently has no funding.<br />
The pathway is being jointly<br />
funded by the city council and<br />
the Coastal Pathway Group.<br />
The third section from Shag<br />
Rock to the Sumner Surf Life<br />
Saving Club has funding and<br />
an anticipated start date of<br />
April.<br />
However, there is no money<br />
at present for the final section.<br />
Ms Templeton’s amendment<br />
means a report with an<br />
estimate of the costs for the<br />
section and a time frame for<br />
delivery will be included in<br />
the draft Long Term Plan and<br />
the community will be able to<br />
make submissions on it.<br />
There was a lack of<br />
understanding about the<br />
coastal pathway, with some<br />
city councillors viewing it as<br />
purely a “recreational nice-tohave,”<br />
she said.<br />
“This report, and<br />
community submissions, will<br />
enable the project to have the<br />
best chance at success.”<br />
Ms Templeton said the<br />
original footpath on the other<br />
side of the road was removed<br />
during rockfall remediation<br />
work and not replaced.<br />
Moncks <strong>Bay</strong> pathway<br />
is currently a “dangerous<br />
informal path” with a drop<br />
down to the rock or sea below.<br />
“Footpaths are a core council<br />
function, but this section is<br />
currently not funded at all,”<br />
she said.<br />
SHORTFALL: The Moncks<br />
<strong>Bay</strong> section of the coastal<br />
pathway has no funding at<br />
present.<br />
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VOLUNTEER RESIGNS<br />
Long time Lyttelton Information<br />
Centre volunteer Wendy<br />
Everingham has resigned after<br />
15 years service, including 12 as<br />
chairwoman. Ms Everingham<br />
said she had been there a long<br />
time and the centre was ready<br />
for “some new energy.” Her<br />
involvement in community<br />
initiatives including the<br />
Timebank, Project Lyttelton<br />
and the Lyttelton Reserve<br />
Management Committee will be<br />
ongoing.<br />
HARMANS TRACK SIGNAGE<br />
Signage on Harmans Track will<br />
be reviewed after community<br />
concerns it is being used by<br />
unsuitable vehicles. The rough,<br />
four-wheel-drive track provides<br />
an alternative route to SH75 from<br />
Cooptown to the Hilltop Tavern,<br />
but it is unsealed, narrow and<br />
winding. The Banks Peninsula<br />
Community Board has asked the<br />
city council to review signage at<br />
either end and ensure signs make<br />
travellers aware the route is not<br />
suitable for non-4WD vehicles.<br />
SHUTTLE MEETING<br />
A community meeting to discuss<br />
the Diamond <strong>Harbour</strong> shuttle<br />
project will be held on Tuesday<br />
at 7pm in the Diamond <strong>Harbour</strong><br />
Community Hall.<br />
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