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NOR’WEST NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>June</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 3<br />
<strong>News</strong><br />
Bid to further lower speed limit<br />
• By Sophie Cornish<br />
Julie<br />
Greenwood<br />
RELIEF MAY be in sight for<br />
those with concerns about the<br />
speed limit outside Harewood<br />
School.<br />
Last week, the Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood<br />
Community<br />
Board approved several speed<br />
limit changes to the Harewood<br />
and Yaldhurst area.<br />
However, it recommended city<br />
council review<br />
the change to the<br />
speed outside<br />
of the school<br />
and consider<br />
lowering it again<br />
from 60km/h to<br />
50km/h. Currently<br />
it is 70km/h.<br />
Harewood<br />
School principal<br />
Julie Greenwood spoke at the<br />
last board meeting, calling for it<br />
to reconsider lowering the speed<br />
to 50km/h, a cause she has been<br />
supporting for many years.<br />
“The community board has<br />
been fantastic at listening to our<br />
concerns as a school, which has<br />
been great.”<br />
“We are delighted that the<br />
speed will be lowered to 60km/h<br />
but we would like them to consider<br />
if it can be 50km/h to make<br />
it consistent with Harewood Rd<br />
. . . this will assist in the safety<br />
of children and parents crossing<br />
the road in the vicinity of the<br />
school,” said Ms Greenwood.<br />
Lower speed limits will aim<br />
to address the changing nature<br />
of post-earthquake, north-west<br />
Christchurch, with its recent and<br />
proposed residential developments.<br />
The changes seek to mitigate<br />
the effects of increased traffic<br />
flows along previously rural<br />
roads and reduce the risk and<br />
severity of accidents to residents<br />
and users of these roads.<br />
City council received 144<br />
public submissions about the<br />
changes, with most supporting<br />
the lowering of speed limits.<br />
The changes will come into<br />
affect in July, following final<br />
approval from city council and<br />
the installing of appropriate<br />
ADJUSTMENTS:<br />
Speed limits<br />
will change<br />
on several<br />
Harewood and<br />
Yaldhurst roads<br />
next month after<br />
the Fendalton-<br />
Waimairi-<br />
Harewood<br />
Community<br />
Board approved<br />
new changes<br />
last week.<br />
speed signs.<br />
Under the plan, parts of Sawyers<br />
Arms, Waimakariri, Harewood,<br />
Styx Mill, Watsons and<br />
Gardiners Rds will all become<br />
60km/h while parts of Highstead,<br />
Claridges, Hussey and<br />
Harewood Rds will be reduced<br />
to 50km/h.<br />
Sections of Guys, Coringa,<br />
Savills, Conservators and Ryans<br />
Rd will become 60km/h.<br />
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In Brief<br />
OLD MITRE 10 SITE PLANS<br />
Plans for the former Mitre 10 site<br />
in the Bishopdale Village Mall are<br />
still unclear. Last week Nor’West<br />
<strong>News</strong> reported businessman Doug<br />
Spence had purchased the site.<br />
Bishopdale Centre Association<br />
for Bishopdale Village Businesses<br />
chairwoman Amanda Nuttall<br />
said the organisation is looking<br />
forward to seeing the site, which<br />
has sat empty for two years, be redeveloped.<br />
“Hopefully it will help<br />
re-invigorate the area and draw<br />
more people here. Mr Spence has<br />
some concept plans being drawn<br />
up at the moment which I am<br />
sure he will share with us as soon<br />
as he can”. Mr Spence owns the<br />
Bishopdale New World site and is<br />
currently looking to build a retail<br />
complex in Church Bay.<br />
SHIRLEY SITE CLEAN-UP<br />
Remediation work on the former<br />
Shirley Community Centre site<br />
will begin soon. The site at 10<br />
Shirley Rd will be cleared of all<br />
cabins, stockpiled materials and<br />
stones. Maintenance of the site will<br />
then be handed back to the city<br />
council.<br />
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