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Wednesday <strong>May</strong> <strong>16</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />

Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />

BAY HARBOUR<br />

PAGE 5<br />

News<br />

School decision fuels debate<br />

• By Sarla Donovan<br />

THE ARM-WRESTLE over a<br />

new site for Redcliffs School has<br />

heated up again.<br />

Last Wednesday Greater<br />

Christchurch Regeneration<br />

Minister Megan Woods has<br />

given approval for changes to<br />

the District Plan, allowing the<br />

school to be built on Redcliffs<br />

Park.<br />

Friends of<br />

Redcliffs Park<br />

spokesman<br />

Chris Doudney<br />

said the minister<br />

had got it<br />

wrong.<br />

Kate<br />

McClelland<br />

Darren<br />

Fidler<br />

“I suspect the<br />

information she<br />

was given was<br />

limited and<br />

she would have<br />

been limited<br />

as to what she<br />

could base her<br />

decision on.<br />

Very much<br />

the same as<br />

the community<br />

board hearing<br />

last August where our own<br />

submission couldn’t be received<br />

or discussed because the scope<br />

of the argument was limited to<br />

considering the school on the<br />

park.”<br />

He said they wanted to get<br />

more information about the<br />

basis for the minister’s decision.<br />

For seven years the school has<br />

been operating from the Van<br />

Asch campus in Sumner, after<br />

earthquake-generated rockfall<br />

at its former site.<br />

In March 2015 the Government<br />

proposed the school’s closure<br />

but following community<br />

outcry, it agreed in June 20<strong>16</strong> to<br />

return the school to Redcliffs –<br />

provided it be established on a<br />

different site.<br />

Deputy principal Kate McClelland<br />

was “thrilled” the school<br />

will be rebuilt at Redcliffs Park.<br />

Said Ms McClelland: “After<br />

seven years we’re very excited to<br />

be finally able to return to our<br />

home in Redcliffs. After all the<br />

work that’s been done working<br />

towards this day, we’re thrilled.”<br />

Families and pupils were<br />

notified yesterday morning,<br />

shortly after the decision was<br />

announced.<br />

Board of trustees chairman<br />

Darren Fidler was “happy and<br />

CHANGE:<br />

Greater<br />

Regeneration<br />

Minister Megan<br />

Woods has<br />

approved the<br />

rezoning of<br />

Redcliffs Park<br />

as a school.<br />

relieved” at the news.<br />

“We can finally get back. It’s<br />

been a long seven years.”<br />

He said it had been an open<br />

and transparent process.<br />

“The minister put out all the<br />

information that she used to<br />

inform her decision so the due<br />

process has been followed . . .<br />

we’re looking forward to getting<br />

back to the core business of<br />

educating kids. That’s all we’ve<br />

ever wanted to do and this has<br />

been a massive distraction from<br />

that.”<br />

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“The weather was great and<br />

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