The Star: May 10, 2018

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Santa Parade could return to city
• By Bridget Rutherford
THE 72ND Christchurch
Santa Parade could return to
the central city this year for the
first time since the February 22,
2011, earthquake.
In its submission on the
city council’s draft Long
Term Plan yesterday the
Christchurch Children’s
Christmas Parade Trust asked
for $35,000 in funding.
Long-time volunteer
Squadron Leader Shane Cole
presented the submission to
city councillors alongside trust
chairwoman Anne Jamieson.
Squadron Leader Cole said
they hoped to run the parade
along Madras St with it to finish
at the Margaret Mahy Family
Playground.
He said the parade would
help reinvigorate the central
city, and finishing at the playground
would be perfect for the
children.
The trust is currently working
with the city council on making
this happen.
Squadron Leader Cole said
they hoped to include Latimer
Square in the plans, where food
vendors could set up.
Since the earthquakes the
parade has travelled along Riccarton
Rd.
The parade’s future had been
uncertain after struggling
financially. But last year, the
city council put $35,000 into
it.
MultiMedia Communications
agreed to sponsor the
event, taking up the naming
rights for this year’s parade and
next.
School decision fuels debate
• By Sarla Donovan
THE ARM-WRESTLE over
a new site for Redcliffs School
heated up again yesterday.
Greater Christchurch Regeneration
Minister Megan Woods
has given approval for changes
to the District Plan, allowing the
school to be built on Redcliffs
Park.
Friends of
Redcliffs Park
spokesman
Chris Doudney
said the minister
had got it
wrong.
“I suspect the
Kate
McClelland
Darren
Fidler
information
she was given
was limited and
she would have
been limited
as to what she
could base her
decision on.
Very much the
same as the
community
board hearing
last August
where our own submission
couldn’t be received or discussed
because the scope of the
argument was limited to considering
the school on the park.”
He said they wanted to get
more information about the
basis for the minister’s decision.
For seven years the school has
CHANGE: Greater Regeneration Minister Megan Woods has approved the rezoning of
Redcliffs Park as a school.
been operating from the Van
Asch campus in Sumner, after
earthquake-generated rockfall
at its former site.
In March 2015 the Government
proposed the school’s closure
but following community
outcry, it agreed in June 2016 to
return the school to Redcliffs –
provided it be established on a
different site.
Deputy principal Kate Mc-
Clelland was “thrilled” the
school will be rebuilt at Redcliffs
Park.
Said Ms McClelland: “After
seven years we’re very excited to
be finally able to return to our
home in Redcliffs. After all the
work that’s been done working
towards this day, we’re thrilled.”
Families and pupils were
notified yesterday morning,
shortly after the decision was
announced.
Board of trustees chairman
Darren Fidler was “happy and
relieved” at the news.
“We can finally get back. It’s
been a long seven years.”
He said it had been an open
and transparent process.
“The minister put out all the
information that she used to
inform her decision so the due
process has been followed . . .
we’re looking forward to getting
back to the core business of
educating kids. That’s all we’ve
ever wanted to do and this has
been a massive distraction from
that.”
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in brief
Chch gets 2020
tourism expo
Christchurch will host the 2020
New Zealand tourism expo,
TRENZ. ChristchurchNZ chief
executive Joanna Norris said
the announcement was a welldeserved
endorsement for the
future of tourism in the city. The
last time Christchurch hosted the
tourism showcase was in 2006.
The event will bring together
leading providers of accommodation,
transport and activities to
showcase their products to more
than 350 international travel and
tourism buyers from major and
emerging visitor markets.
North-bound lane
opens on Durham St
A new north-bound lane was
opened on Durham St yesterday
between Tuam and Lichfield Sts. It
is part of an upgrade of the street
aimed at making it easier for
motorists, cyclists and pedestrians
to get around the city. The work
has cost about $13 million. The
upgrade, from Kilmore to Tuam
Sts, is set to be finished by the
end of the month and is being
undertaken by Ōtākaro Ltd.
International interest
in CHDB work
New resources developed by
Canterbury District Health
Board psychiatrist Susan Gee
to help prevent delirium have
attracted interest from the United
Kingdom, Ireland, Canada
and Spain. Dr Gee began the
THINKdelirium Prevention
Project, which include a tip
book, poster, pens and a family
brochure. Delirium is a rapid
decline in brain function, usually
the result of an acute illness,
injury or surgery, and develops
over hours or days.
Big river clean up
on Saturday
The Mother of All Clean Ups will
take place on Saturday. Volunteers
from about 40 community,
iwi, sports and corporate
organisations are set to clean up
the Avon and Heathcote rivers.
There’s
much more
to come
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