Southern View: March 13, 2018
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4 Tuesday <strong>March</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
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SOUTHERN VIEW<br />
News<br />
Council seeks future use for Banks<br />
• By Sarla Donovan<br />
IDEAS ARE being sought for<br />
the future use of four heritage<br />
buildings on Banks Peninsula.<br />
They are the Lyttelton Borough<br />
Council stables in Lyttelton; Yew<br />
Cottage in Akaroa; the Little<br />
River Coronation Library and<br />
Kukupa Hostel in Pigeon Bay.<br />
Individuals, groups and<br />
organisations interested in using<br />
or helping to fund the buildings’<br />
restoration have until <strong>March</strong><br />
29 to submit ideas to the city<br />
council.<br />
Most sustained damage in the<br />
September 2010, and February<br />
2011, Canterbury earthquakes<br />
and are yet to be repaired.<br />
“Unfortunately, we don’t have<br />
enough money right now to<br />
repair all our heritage buildings<br />
within the next few years, so<br />
we need to prioritise how these<br />
funds should be spent,’’ city<br />
council acting head of parks<br />
Brent Smith said.<br />
Lyttelton resident and former<br />
property manager at The<br />
Tannery, Ian Knewstubb, said<br />
the former stables should be<br />
retained and eventually restored,<br />
in spite of the cost.<br />
“My oath – there’s so little left.<br />
They don’t have to happen that<br />
fast. The main thing is to hold on<br />
to them.”<br />
He said the building should<br />
be made weather-tight and a<br />
working party should be set up.<br />
“In Italy, they just make sure<br />
nothing happens to the (old)<br />
buildings. If it takes 10, 20,<br />
30, 40 years – that’s what it<br />
takes. The major thing is to<br />
hold on to them and establish<br />
a working party to look at how<br />
to maintain them as they are,<br />
how to fund raise, and also to<br />
establish what purpose they<br />
should be put to.”<br />
The stables were built in<br />
1914 for councillors to lodge<br />
their steeds; the horses were<br />
replaced by motor vehicles<br />
in 1939.<br />
Estimates put the cost of<br />
restoration at around $2.2<br />
million.<br />
AT LEAST $750,000 TO RESTORE: The Little River Coronation Library building sits in the Awa-Iti<br />
Domain near the War Memorial Gates. <br />
LANDMARK: Yew Cottage is known by Akaroa locals as Jeannie’s<br />
Cottage in honour of long-term resident Jeannie Wendelborn.<br />
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