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Wednesday <strong>April</strong> <strong>18</strong> 20<strong>18</strong><br />
News<br />
Urumau Reserve plan on hold<br />
Community<br />
board seeks<br />
more detail<br />
• By Sarla Donovan<br />
AN UPDATED development<br />
plan for Lyttelton’s Urumau<br />
Reserve has been put on hold.<br />
The Banks Peninsula<br />
Community Board rejected<br />
the city council staff<br />
recommendation to adopt the<br />
plan at a special meeting on<br />
Monday.<br />
Board<br />
chairwoman<br />
Pam Richardson<br />
said it wanted<br />
more background<br />
information on<br />
the work that<br />
Pam<br />
Richardson<br />
has been done<br />
on tracks, trails<br />
and other areas of<br />
development in the reserve.<br />
She would not specify what<br />
type of information the board<br />
is seeking, saying only that it<br />
needed “further clarification” on<br />
some issues.<br />
“All the work that’s been done<br />
in the reserve, we just wanted a<br />
bit more background on it.”<br />
The aim of the development<br />
plan, originally created in 2008,<br />
was to increase public access<br />
and use of the reserve, control<br />
pests and weeds, and enhance<br />
the township’s natural landscape<br />
and birdlife.<br />
Developments in the 10 years<br />
since then have included new<br />
mountain bike tracks, steps<br />
and signage, native plant revegetation,<br />
weed control and a<br />
developing pest management<br />
strategy.<br />
Ms Richardson said the<br />
board had raised a number of<br />
questions with city council staff<br />
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over historical development in<br />
the reserve, and it was now a<br />
matter of waiting for them to<br />
come back with answers.<br />
The plan would be approved<br />
when the board members had<br />
“enough information,” she said.<br />
There is no timeframe in place<br />
at the moment, Ms Richardson<br />
said, and “it might take some<br />
time to work through.”<br />
A city council report on<br />
the proposed plan said it had<br />
attracted an “unexpected” level<br />
of public interest, with 625<br />
UNDER<br />
SCRUTINY: More<br />
information is<br />
being sought on<br />
the development<br />
of mountain bike<br />
trails in Urumau<br />
Reserve.<br />
PHOTO: MARK<br />
BRIDGWATER<br />
submissions – 176 from the<br />
Lyttelton area.<br />
Four hundred and seventy<br />
three submissions supported the<br />
plan, 98 had concerns and 54<br />
did not support the plan.<br />
Key concerns raised included<br />
privacy, parking and traffic<br />
issues for neighbouring<br />
residents; environmental<br />
damage; limited access<br />
points; shared and unauthorised<br />
paths and general opposition<br />
to mountain biking in the<br />
reserve.<br />
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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
DYERS PASS CLOSURES<br />
Dyers Pass Rd will be closed<br />
tonight as double yellow lines,<br />
new 60km/h speed limit signs,<br />
and raised centre line pavement<br />
markers are installed. The road<br />
will be closed to traffic from the<br />
Sign of the Takahe to Governors<br />
<strong>Bay</strong> between 7pm and 6.30am.<br />
Further night closures are scheduled<br />
from Sunday to <strong>April</strong> 26, as<br />
well as <strong>April</strong> 29 and May 2.<br />
NEW BOARD CHAIR<br />
The Linwood-Central-Heathcote<br />
Community Board is expected<br />
to elect a new chairperson today.<br />
Current chairwoman Sally<br />
Buck is standing down but will<br />
remain on the board.<br />
LYTTELTON CLUB REVAMP<br />
The Lyttelton Club will launch<br />
its new sports bar on Saturday.<br />
The club has been renovating<br />
for the past six months and<br />
the formal opening of the new<br />
bar will take place from 4pm.<br />
Other renovations include a<br />
new entrance off Dublin St, new<br />
windows, floors and lighting.<br />
SKATE BOWL CONSENT<br />
Consent for the Governors<br />
<strong>Bay</strong> skate bowl is expected<br />
to be lodged within the next<br />
few weeks. The city council is<br />
looking to start building work in<br />
spring.<br />
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