Pegasus Post: August 28, 2018
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6 Tuesday <strong>August</strong> <strong>28</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
Readers respond to the<br />
<strong>Pegasus</strong> <strong>Post</strong> article on<br />
city councillors David East<br />
and Glenn Livingstone<br />
pledging to help keep the<br />
New Brighton Guy Fawkes<br />
fireworks event at the pier<br />
Karen Hibberd – Ban all<br />
fireworks.<br />
Taina Kahutia Tawhitopou<br />
Connell – Ban it.<br />
Amanda White – Stay!<br />
They can’t do the big bangers in<br />
the city and Brighton has lost<br />
enough.<br />
Heather Knox – Get rid of<br />
it and replace with a Matariki or<br />
Parihaka event, more relevant to<br />
New Zealand.<br />
Ryan Nield – I think the<br />
current council needs to go.<br />
Sam Stoner – Keep it. It’s<br />
one of the few events we have in<br />
Christchurch.<br />
Christine Weston – Keep it<br />
in Brighton.<br />
We said:<br />
Eighteen families in<br />
Shirley have received free<br />
firewood as a result of a<br />
large community effort<br />
You said:<br />
Ryan Baker – Brilliant idea<br />
of city council and Environment<br />
Canterbury to try and push people<br />
into heat pumps and electric<br />
heating. Fastest way to cripple<br />
vulnerable people’s health and<br />
financial security.<br />
Brian Tones – I wish they<br />
would do more for pensioners, as<br />
most of our power bills in winter<br />
get up around the $400 a month<br />
mark.<br />
Stef Fagan – I’m really<br />
confused. A big load if firewood<br />
costs way less than $700 and<br />
would last longer than a month.<br />
I’m not saying they don’t struggle<br />
but it seems they attack it<br />
from the wrong end?<br />
Traci Leigh – This is<br />
great. But loads of families in<br />
Christchurch don’t have a fire as<br />
we’re not allowed them. Where<br />
is the help for them?<br />
Karen Drummond – Great<br />
to know families won’t be going<br />
cold.<br />
Stephan Lance Gardiner<br />
– Power is what you want it to<br />
be.<br />
Board gets help<br />
to understand<br />
flooding issues<br />
• By Sarla Donovan<br />
THE Linwood-Central-<br />
Heathcote Community Board<br />
has requested an “outside<br />
support person” to<br />
help it understand<br />
Higher Flood Hazard<br />
Management Areas<br />
and Restricted Unit<br />
Overlays.<br />
Christchurch<br />
Coastal Residents<br />
United deputy<br />
chairman Warwick<br />
Schaffer attended a<br />
public-excluded city<br />
council seminar about the topics<br />
last week after the city council<br />
agreed to the request.<br />
The outside adviser was to<br />
help the board “interpret the<br />
information and ask questions,”<br />
said member Darrell Latham.<br />
He said there were<br />
“incongruities” in city council<br />
policy related to HFHMA which<br />
had serious implications for<br />
residents.<br />
“We need clarification and<br />
answers now,” Dr Latham said.<br />
Darrell Latham<br />
The Coastal-Burwood<br />
Community Board was also at<br />
the seminar.<br />
CCRU is a group made up of<br />
coastal residents and experts<br />
who have recently flagged<br />
concerns about how 1486<br />
sites in a Restricted Unit<br />
Overlay within the HF-<br />
HMA are being treated<br />
by city council planners.<br />
It recently held a public<br />
meeting, which attracted<br />
more than 100 residents,<br />
to discuss the concerns.<br />
The CCRU believes a<br />
restricted discretionary<br />
activity rule, recommended by<br />
the replacement District Plan<br />
independent hearings panel,<br />
was left out when the plan was<br />
finalised last year.<br />
Without the discretionary<br />
rule, under the District Plan new<br />
developments or intensification<br />
of land use in the HFHMA is to<br />
be avoided.<br />
Dr Latham said the seminar<br />
was for information sharing<br />
rather than decision-making<br />
purposes.<br />
Pupils haul in accolades at Bandquest<br />
• By Matt Salmons<br />
PUPILS FROM schools in<br />
the <strong>Pegasus</strong> <strong>Post</strong> area have<br />
claimed a number of titles<br />
at the Canterbury Rockshop<br />
Bandquest, with Chisnallwood<br />
Intermediate hauling in the<br />
awards.<br />
Bandquest is a national music<br />
contest for intermediate and<br />
primary pupils to compete in<br />
bands of three to 10 members.<br />
Each band plays a short set of<br />
covers or originals with a focus<br />
on performance skills.<br />
Last week, 46 bands competed<br />
at St Margaret’s College over<br />
three nights. Rāwhiti School’s<br />
Molly Seal won the rock-solid<br />
bassist award and Waitakiri<br />
Primary School’s Minori Naoi<br />
took out best keyboardist on the<br />
first night.<br />
On night two, South New<br />
Brighton School band Beach<br />
Break secured two awards, best<br />
original song and the rocking<br />
drummer award to Braithan<br />
Bailey.<br />
Chisnallwood Intermediate<br />
dominated the final night,<br />
with four of the school’s bands<br />
receiving awards.<br />
Jandal Smack took out first<br />
place and a killer guitarist<br />
award for Jacob Carey. Heinrich<br />
Muller won best vocalist with<br />
Chisnallwood’s TCP while<br />
Ricochet won best original song.<br />
The Radio Wreckers’ Hiromu<br />
Crosado took home best<br />
keyboardist and Niko Tudor-<br />
Oakley the rocking drummer<br />
award.<br />
WINNERS: Chisnallwood Intermediate’s Jandal Smack at<br />
Bandquest.<br />
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9am – 9:40am - Bromley – Outside the Bromley<br />
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9:50am – 10:30am - Aranui, Aranui Library,<br />
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