Nor'West News: April 10, 2018

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Plans reveal indoor learner’s pool
• By Sophie Cornish and
Julia Evans
THE NEW Edgeware Pool
will not look anything like it’s
predecessor, new plans have
revealed.
Just-released designs for the
$4.5 million-$5 million project
show the complex will include
an indoor learner’s pool, which
will be a major source of income
for the facility.
Initially the
facility was set
to have two
heated outdoor
pools – but the
learner pool will
move indoors,
Pauline
Cotter
while the 25m
pool will remain
outside. The
new designs also include a small
gym, car park and outdoor area.
The St Albans Pool and Pavilion
group commissioned the
plans from Apollo Design, the
designers of QE II Park.
Group spokesman Stephen
Anderson said it is pleased with
the plans and pricing.
He said the indoor pool would
add a revenue stream, as well as
“mitigate any concerns” neighbours
had with noise.
The complex will have no
operating cost for the ratepayer
as it is an entirely community
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UPDATE: New designs for the Edegeware Pool include an
indoor learner area as well as a heated outdoor pool.
driven project.
However, some community involvement
in the form of volunteering
when it first opens may
be needed, Mr Anderson said.
He compared the pricing to
the proposed Linwood-Woolston
pool, which city council is estimating
will cost more than $20
million.
“We could build two of these
pools for less than half of what
they are proposing.”
Innes Ward city councillor
Pauline Cotter said the inclusion
of an indoor pool would
be a really important source of
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income as it could offer swimming
lessons in winter as well as
summer.
“To cover the indoor pool
means they can get revenue all
year round,” she said.
Cr Cotter said the model being
used in Edgeware should be used
in communities across the city.
The group gained resource
consent to build a complex on
the Edgeware Rd site after a
hearing last March. In 2016 the
city council sold the group the
land for $1.
It comes as Papanui’s Graham
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Centre is about to lose 25 per
cent of its patrons with the reopening
of the QE II Sport and
Recreation Centre.
The city council is forecasting
a decrease of about 220,000 users
to the Papanui centre once QE II
reopens its doors in June.
A city council briefing to the
Papanui-Innes Community
Board from manager operations
recreation and sports unit Nigel
Cox said in the 2016-17 financial
year there were 819,641 visitors
to Graham Condon.
But in 2018-19 that would
drop to about 600,000.
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STORMWATER FACILITY
Work has begun on construction
the Buller’s Stream Stormwater
facility on QEII Drive near
the intersection of Philpotts
Rd. The project includes the
construction of a wetland system
to provide better stormwater
quality treatment, a level of flood
storage and the construction
of a shared path between QEII
Drive and East Ellington Drive.
Work is set to be finished by the
end of September but is weather
dependant.
REPAIRS ON TRACK
The repair and refurbishment of
the Redwood Plunket Rooms is
ahead of schedule. The project
has been put out to tender and
the garden has been cleared.
Work repairing the building
should be completed and by the
end of June. The building is set
to be used as a base for a local
social worker.
ANZAC DAY SERVICE
The annual Papanui Anzac Day
service will be held from 9am
on April 25. St James Ave from
Dalriada St to Harewood Rd,
Main North Rd from Langdons
Rd to Harewood Rd, Papanui Rd
from Harewood Rd to Frank St
and Harewood Rd from St James
Ave to Papanui Rd will be closed
for the service from 9-10.15am.
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