Southern View: August 28, 2018

6 Tuesday August 28 2018
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Board gets help
to understand
flooding issues
• By Sarla Donovan
THE Linwood-Central-
Heathcote Community Board
has requested an “outside
support person” to
help it understand
Higher Flood Hazard
Management Areas
and Restricted Unit
Overlays.
Christchurch Coastal
Residents United
deputy chairman
Warwick Schaffer
attended a publicexcluded
city council
seminar about the
topics last week after the city
council agreed to the request.
The outside adviser was to
help the board “interpret the
information and ask questions,”
said member Darrell Latham.
He said there were
“incongruities” in city council
policy related to HFHMA which
had serious implications for
residents.
“We need clarification and
answers now,” Dr Latham said.
Darrell Latham
The Coastal-Burwood
Community Board was also at
the seminar.
CCRU is a group made up of
coastal residents and experts
who have recently flagged
concerns about how 1486
sites in a Restricted Unit
Overlay within the HF-
HMA are being treated
by city council planners.
It recently held a public
meeting, which attracted
more than 100 residents,
to discuss the concerns.
The CCRU believes a
restricted discretionary
activity rule, recommended by
the replacement District Plan
independent hearings panel, was
left out when the plan was finalised
last year.
Without the discretionary
rule, under the District Plan new
developments or intensification
of land use in the HFHMA is to
be avoided.
Dr Latham said the seminar
was for information sharing
rather than decision-making
purposes.
• By Sophie Cornish
A CASHMERE bowel cancer
surgeon and researcher
has received international
recognition from one of the
world’s largest surgical colleges
in Ireland.
Last month, Frank Frizelle
was awarded one of the highest
honours, an honourary fellowship
from the Royal College of
Surgeons in Ireland.
It recognises his global leadership
in surgery and comes on
the back of ground-breaking
research from Prof Frizelle and
his Otago University and Canterbury
District Health Board
research teams, who recently
identified a toxic bug they believe
may cause bowel cancer.
The team found a toxic form
of a bacteria called enterotoxic
bacteroides fragilis in the gut
of almost 80 per cent of people
with a pre-cancerous lesion – a
precursor to the disease, which
is one of the leading causes of
cancer death in New Zealand,
said Prof Frizelle.
It could lead to a life-saving
vaccine or early detection test for
the disease.
Prof Frizelle said he was
“delighted and privileged” to be
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HONOUR: Frank
Frizelle (right) after
receiving his honorary
fellowship from the
Royal College of
Surgeons in Ireland.
Dublin professor Paul
Burke researched and
presented a citation
on Prof Frizelle,
something all award
recipients received.
Bowel cancer surgeon recognised
Fire rages, homes at risk
recognised with the award which
came, “out of the blue.”
It was especially exciting for
his mother, Nanci, who has Irish
heritage. She was too frail to
travel but was able to watch her
son receive the award through a
live-stream video.
His team were also the first
to show differences in the gut
microbiome linked to different
types of bowel cancer.
Prof Frizelle is a surgeon at
Christchurch Colorectal in St
Albans, editor in chief of The
New Zealand Medical Journal
and head of the department of
surgery at Otago University.
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