Nor'West News: May 08, 2018

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8 Tuesday May 8 2018 Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi NOR’WEST NEWS News Bid to get funding for a Belfast library in LTP BELFAST MAY get it’s own library and service centre if the Papanui-Innes Community Board gets its way. The community board has requested $150,000 to progress the project in the city council’s Long Term Plan 2018-2028. The project was deferred in the 2015-2025 LTP and was completely removed from the draft 2018-2028 LTP. “The board requests this project is reinstated urgently for the year 2019-2020,” said community board deputy chairwoman Emma Norrish at a LTP submission hearing last week. “We note a huge population growth in the north of Christchurch and the need for city council staff to identify suitable sites for potential community facilities.” Belfast is now home to about 7600 residents – and this number is predicted to double by 2041 to about 15,000. The board hopes city council will explore partnership opportunities and notes that there a new school is planned for Belfast. Langdon connection to Papanui Papanui Heritage Group chairman Murray Williams writes about the development of Langdons Rd which is the second part of last month’s column THOMAS LANGDON died in 1904 and, at this time, the blind street named after him was little more than a sleepy rural track flanked by a few houses. However, over the next 115 years Langdons Rd has been notable for continually changing land use patterns. In 1911, a group of enterprising citizens purchased a block of land on Langdons Rd between North Rd and Restell St. The Papanui bowling, tennis and croquet club was formed and it prevailed until the late 1960s on a site now dominated by retail outlets. In 1926, the Education Department acquired 6.2ha of agricultural land fronting on Langdons Rd alongside the northern railway. However, it took the government another 10 years to approve, plan and complete the school first known as the Papanui branch of the Christchurch Technical College. In 1953, the school became Papanui High School to acknowledge its change to a modern multi-course high school. In 1948, the American Firestone Tire and Rubber Company purchased and developed a block of orcharding land to the northwest of the railway and eventually became Papanui’s largest employer. On the opposite side of the street, Sanitarium, with an even longer history in the area, was also a major employer, although it is now undergoing a phased withdrawal from Papanui. Currently, the former Firestone site is undergoing a further change in land use, as some of the industrial buildings have been demolished to allow for the development of the Northfield Business Park, which includes new facilities for a range of enterprises, such as a pre-school, a gym and the Trade Union Centre. Prior to this in 2001, further to the north, Langstone Lane was developed as a site for warehouses. However, the northern end of Langdons Rd is still dominated by residential properties, many of which were built as part of an extensive government housing project in the early and mid- 1950s. Other forms of land use included the development of a corner site on the Main North Rd by the local branch of the RSA. After World War 1, surplus army buildings were combined into one structure and in the mid-1940s a new art deco façade HISTORY: Papanui Technical College from Langdons Rd in the 1940s. The view of the original buildings has since been obscured by subsequent development. PHOTO: PAPANUI HIGH SCHOOL ARCHIVES was added as part of a general refurbishment. Eventually this building was demolished and, since 1995, the Westpac Bank has occupied the site. The Papanui Library and Community Service Centre on the corner of Restell St was established in 1995. However, the dominant feature of the southern end of Langdons Road is the Northlands Shopping Centre. Its growth continues today with the provision of further restaurant and bar facilities, a development which is to be named Langdons Quarter, a further connection to Thomas Langdon and the street to which he gave his name. •References: Wises Directories, Papers Past, Christine Grant for extra research Men “The question of the power of men has been very topical in the past year with changes in political leadership, #MeToo and other associated movements. In images used in the media of significant male politicians or male professional leaders these men more often than not wear a suit albeit maybe without a tie these days. The suits these men wear convey power. Do these men wear suits because they are a symbol of power? Do corporate woman feel they have to emulate men in the way they dress to achieve power? Why in fact is there such a historical difference in the clothes of men and woman? Do men have an advantage in society because there exists this type of uniform that gives them an unspoken air of authority that there is not something equivalent of for woman? The history of menswear suits, over-coats, trousers, shirts and ties can be traced back several centuries and remain very traditional and recognisable in the 21st century. The shape of the lapel, the size of the tie, the quality of the material and the way they are produced may have changed but the form and its associations are immediately identifiable. Sombre colours of greys and black suits still dominate. These suits are trans-seasonal. It is a code of dress that is universally recognisable. By its continued widespread use it isn’t likely to change. These suits are not necessarily worn for comfort so are they still in such dominant use because of the symbols they convey? Here seventy men are dressed in traditional suits then they deviate playing with shape and form, eccentricity, personality and individualism also drawing at times on more feminine influences of colour and pattern. It is an unresolved exploration of menswear and its implications in contemporary society.” Gill Hay. Gill attended Canterbury University School of Fine Arts in the early 1980s and has been exhibiting widely in New Zealand and overseas for the past 20 years. She lives in Lyttelton where she has a studio in her home overlooking the inner harbour. 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NOR’WEST NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Tuesday May 8 2018 9 Your Local Views Local News Now Call for community facility grows Fire rages, homes at risk Joanna Gould is pushing for a new community facility at 10 Shirley Rd and puts forward some of her ideas for the site I ATTENDED an antenatal class at the Shirley Community Centre 11 years ago and have been a local Shirley resident for the past 10 years. I have a passion for research, learning and community spaces. The former Shirley Community Centre at 10 Shirley Rd was an iconic focal point of our community since 1915. It was originally Shirley Primary School, and later on our Shirley Community Centre, a place for cultural, educational and recreational activities. It was seriously damaged in the February 22, 2011, earthquake, and was demolished in 2012. Since the earthquakes, our community has been struggling DAMAGED: The former Shirley Community Centre site before it was demolished in 2012. to get our homes repaired and rebuilt. Two primary schools have closed, our roads are still damaged, there are detours and closures in place, and sucker trucks run throughout the night due to sewer system failures when it rains. The Dudley Creek flood remediation is overdue by a year, and the ‘temporary depot/storage yard’ sites at 10 Shirley Rd and 40 Guild St are having a negative impact on residents lives. Recently we learnt that the new QE II campus, built to relocate Avonside Girls’ and Shirley Boys’ High Schools, may change ‘our school’ zones, which will deny our children access to ‘our schools’. And now, after years of waiting for the rebuild to start for our community centre, we have been dealt another blow. We find out that the funding granted by the city council has not been included in the draft Long Term Plan. The 10 Shirley Rd site is a constant visual reminder to me, and the locals/road users of Shirley Rd, that our community has been left behind; we haven’t rebuilt from the earthquakes. What message are we sending to the children at Shirley Primary School and the children from other schools that travel past this area? That it’s okay to treat your community spaces like this? Do our children matter to the city council? Are they not future Christchurch ratepayers? Our community’s health is at stake. We can not wait 10 years. We need our community centre rebuilt now. My suggestion is to combine city council resources with funding and donations to create a new Shirley Library, service centre, learning space and playground, with the existing Shirley Playcentre. That would lift up our community and give us a meeting place for all cultural, educational and recreational activities. I created the website www.10shirleyroad.org.nz to collate my research and ideas for my submission to the city council’s Long Term Plan. Feel free to take a look Readers respond to a story about the Main North Rd speed limit potentially being lowered Heather Wilkins – Commonsense needs to prevail. In places like where it’s motorway, it should be 80km/h or 100km/h. 50km/h or 60km/h is good, but the problem is if you make it 60km/h, cars will do 70km/h. I have seen it on Carmen Rd from Main South Rd. Down Carmen Rd, they do 60km/h when it’s 50km/h. Past the Carmen and Buchanans Rds intersection it’s 60km/h but people do 70km/h if not faster. Scotty Ogilvie – It should be 60km/h . . . most Christchurch locals drive at 60km/h everywhere. Sarah Spencer Smith – I’m confused, isn’t this a motorway? Rob E Wilton – 55km/h, directly the middle number. Neil Hawker – Very rarely do you ever get to 60km/h, most of the time people do 50km/h in 60km/h areas. So, if reduced to 50km/h, you will end up doing 40km/h and simply add to the normal frustrations of driving in Christchurch, and still you will get the normal incompetent drivers crashing as usual. Just leave it as is, I can’t see any advantage to once again catering for stupid drivers at the expense and frustration of the normal ones. But I guess it’s going to happen anyway, so waste of time even complaining. UNCLEAR: Part of Main North Rd could have its speed limit dropped to 50km/h. PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER Hagley Junior Open Night Looking at high school options for 2019? Join us for our Junior College Open Evening and discover more about what Hagley can offer you! TUESDAY, MAY 8TH | Please join us at either 4.30pm or 5.30pm A maximum of 125 places available in Year 9 for 2019. Currently no places available in Year 10 for 2019 Phone us on (03) 379 3090 ext 884 or visit www.hagley.school.nz for more information about Junior Enrolments.
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