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PEGASUS POST Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>April</strong> <strong>17</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 5<br />
News<br />
Safety to be addressed by<br />
removing Westhaven trees<br />
• By Sophie Cornish<br />
A NEW report has found fewer<br />
trees in the Westhaven area need<br />
to be removed than originally<br />
thought.<br />
In October, a city council assessed<br />
314 trees in the area and<br />
found 168 which were recommended<br />
for removal.<br />
Of the 168, 138 could be replaced<br />
and 30 could not.<br />
However, a new report by city<br />
council has found that 90 trees<br />
of the original 168 can be<br />
retained for around five to 10<br />
years.<br />
The trees have become oversized<br />
and the roots are causing<br />
damage to infrastructure including<br />
footpaths, kerbs, vehicle<br />
crossings, driveways, walls,<br />
fences and letterboxes.<br />
The issue is causing public<br />
safety issues and involves 24<br />
streets.<br />
City council arborist Dieter<br />
Steinnegg said only 78 need to be<br />
removed at this stage.<br />
“This will lessen the immediate<br />
impact to the community and the<br />
environment in terms of loss of<br />
trees.”<br />
Of those 78, 39 can be replaced<br />
in the same location and 39<br />
potentially elsewhere within<br />
Westhaven.<br />
“The repairs to city council<br />
owned infrastructure will still be<br />
able to progress at the same level.”<br />
LINWOOD AVENUE School pupils<br />
have voiced their support for the<br />
proposed Linwood-Woolston Pool site in<br />
Smith St.<br />
They even delivered their submissions<br />
directly to local community board members.<br />
Accompanied by their teacher, Jane<br />
Thomson and deputy principal Trevor<br />
Proctor, the 26 pupils walked to the<br />
favoured pool site on the corner of<br />
Linwood Ave and Smith St to hand over<br />
their individual feedback to Linwood-<br />
Central-Heathcote Community Board<br />
CRACKED: Trees causing damage in Westhaven will be removed,<br />
however less now than originally thought.<br />
The majority of the trees within<br />
the Westhaven area were planted<br />
in 1998 and 50 per cent of those<br />
trees are now considered to be in<br />
poor condition.<br />
The tree species involved are<br />
chairwoman Sally Buck and deputy<br />
chairman Jake McLellan.<br />
Several youngsters read their project<br />
submissions to the board members, making<br />
their case for the indoor pool site in<br />
Smith St.<br />
The year 5 and 6 students delivered<br />
their plea on the final day of site submissions,<br />
saying they had included several<br />
facility suggestions.<br />
Year 6 pupil Reine Pene, 10, strongly<br />
supports “the plan of putting the new<br />
pool on the corner of Smith St.”<br />
“It is important to know how to<br />
plane, elm, birch and liriodendron<br />
trees.<br />
Species being considered for<br />
the replacement include nyssa<br />
sylvatica, acer rubrum and magnolia<br />
grandiflora.<br />
SPOTTED: A rare white heron at Bottle Lake Forest.<br />
Rare heron swoops into<br />
Bottle Lake Forest Park<br />
A RARE white heron has made a<br />
surprise visit to ponds near Bottle<br />
Lake Forest.<br />
The bird, which is endangered<br />
and one of a population of about<br />
150 around New Zealand, has<br />
been spotted in the area by city<br />
council park ranger Jason Roberts.<br />
City council ornithologist<br />
Andrew Crossland says it’s the<br />
first time he has heard of a white<br />
heron visiting the ponds.<br />
Work that has been carried<br />
out by city council rangers in<br />
recent years to create wetland<br />
habitats and attract native birds<br />
seems to have been effective, he<br />
says.<br />
“It’s a bit of a coup to get an<br />
iconic native bird like this one in<br />
the area. White herons are found<br />
in the estuary, at Lake Ellesmere<br />
and at Travis Wetland but not<br />
swim,” she said.<br />
“If we are lucky enough to have the<br />
pool in Smith St, I would also like a diving<br />
board to encourage people to conquer<br />
their fear. I would also like a pool for<br />
swimming lessons so people know how<br />
to survive,” she said.<br />
Ms Buck said the youngsters have<br />
highlighted their support for an indoor<br />
pool in Smith Street.<br />
“We want the children to come to the<br />
community board meeting and present<br />
their case for the new pool site, underlining<br />
its importance for the area,” she said.<br />
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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
usually in these dune lakes near<br />
Bottle Lake Forest.<br />
“What we’re trying to do is<br />
create a chain of wetlands that go<br />
along the coastline and link up<br />
the Avon-Heathcote Estuary and<br />
the Brooklands Lagoon. We’d<br />
like to get birds that are passing<br />
through to stop and spend time<br />
here.”<br />
“Before the city council started<br />
this work there was nothing but<br />
seagulls around there, but now<br />
there are pukeko, native ducks,<br />
pied stilts and other water birds<br />
that have colonised these ponds.<br />
This heron is the rarest and most<br />
impressive of the new species that<br />
have been attracted to the area.”<br />
Mr Crossland says the heron is<br />
an adult in non-breeding plumage<br />
and is likely to have come<br />
here from breeding grounds on<br />
the West Coast to feed.<br />
Pupils back idea of pool for Linwood-Woolston<br />
SUPPORT: Chairwoman Sally Buck accepts<br />
a pool site submission from Linwood<br />
Avenue School pupil Reine Pene, 10. <br />
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