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Wednesday <strong>April</strong> <strong>11</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 5<br />
News<br />
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Board gets okay to fight quarry<br />
Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
• By Emily O’Connell<br />
THE HALSWELL-Hornby-<br />
Riccarton Community Board<br />
has been given the green light to<br />
oppose the planned quarry near<br />
Templeton.<br />
Mayor Lianne Dalziel told the<br />
board on Thursday it had the<br />
okay from the city council to<br />
make a submission<br />
if Fulton<br />
Hogan applies<br />
for a resource<br />
consent to create<br />
a quarry.<br />
Board chairman<br />
Mike Mora<br />
Mike Mora<br />
said the submission<br />
would likely<br />
oppose Fulton<br />
Hogan’s plan.<br />
“You can just about guarantee<br />
it . . . because we [the community<br />
board] don’t believe quarries<br />
should be so close to residential<br />
areas,” he said.<br />
Mr Mora said he wasn’t sure if<br />
the city council would endorse<br />
the board’s submission.<br />
“I’d like to think so because<br />
the city council has had their<br />
eyes open as well over recent<br />
years over the crystalline silica<br />
risk,” he said.<br />
Mr Mora said the community<br />
board will be “representing and<br />
advocating” for the Templeton<br />
community.<br />
There has been widespread<br />
opposition to the planned quarry<br />
on Dawsons, Curraghs and Jones<br />
Rds.<br />
Fulton Hogan says the quarry,<br />
which would be on a 170ha section<br />
of land, will be there for up<br />
to 40 years.<br />
Residents have voiced concerns<br />
about the potential health risks,<br />
water issues and devaluing of<br />
properties.<br />
OPPOSITION: Halswell-<br />
Hornby-Riccarton Community<br />
Board chairman Mike<br />
Mora took a ‘NO QUARRY’<br />
sign to the full city council<br />
meeting on Thursday. The<br />
city council has given the<br />
board the okay to make a<br />
submission if Fulton Hogan<br />
applies for resource consent<br />
for its planned quarry near<br />
Templeton.<br />
Meanwhile, Mr Mora took a<br />
‘NO QUARRY’ sign to the full<br />
city council meeting on Thursday.<br />
It came after the city council<br />
launched an investigation into<br />
the signs on properties in Templeton<br />
last week.<br />
City council head of regulatory<br />
compliance Tracey Weston<br />
said it’s investigating the size<br />
and placement of the signs and<br />
whether they breach city council<br />
bylaws.<br />
“A planning assessment is currently<br />
being undertaken against<br />
the District Plan and Public Places<br />
Bylaw to determine what size<br />
signage is permitted in the areas<br />
where the signs are displayed,”<br />
she said.<br />
Mr Mora said it was to show<br />
city councillors exactly what the<br />
signs look like and that “there<br />
shouldn’t be an issue.”<br />
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