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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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