Pegasus Post: October 16, 2018
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PEGASUS POST Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>October</strong> <strong>16</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 5<br />
News<br />
Residents’ quake isolation issues<br />
Funding call<br />
for disaster<br />
psychologist<br />
• By Julia Evans<br />
A DISASTER psychologist could<br />
investigate post-quake issues for<br />
one of the hardest hit suburbs<br />
from the February 22, 2011,<br />
event.<br />
The Dallington Community<br />
Trust has asked for funding<br />
from the Coastal-Burwood<br />
Community Board for a disaster<br />
psychologist to look into the ongoing<br />
effects of social isolation<br />
in the area.<br />
Trustee and long-term<br />
resident David Collins said<br />
a large number of people on<br />
the edge of the residential red<br />
zone feel very isolated as a<br />
result of the February 22, 2011,<br />
earthquake.<br />
“We lost 50 per cent of our<br />
population,” he said.<br />
“We also lost St Paul’s School<br />
and church, a rest home, the<br />
Orbiter bus route, the medical<br />
centre and chemist and we’re<br />
about to lose Banks Ave School.”<br />
Mr Collins said some residents<br />
have to travel through red zone<br />
just to get to their property.<br />
“Everyday they’re constantly<br />
reminded of what they’ve lost,<br />
the long-term residents really<br />
find it difficult.”<br />
Mr Collins said the group<br />
wants a disaster psychologist to<br />
investigate the extent of the issue.<br />
“We want to find out how big<br />
the issue is and then turn that<br />
around into a wellness programme.”<br />
Board member and trust<br />
chairwoman Linda Stewart said<br />
the issues stem in suburbs on the<br />
fringe of the residential red zone<br />
from the loss of housing and<br />
people in the communities.<br />
“There are pockets in the east<br />
that are so isolated and totally<br />
unable to move on,” Ms Stewart<br />
said.<br />
“The area has become meaningless,<br />
the meaning of community<br />
is gone.”<br />
Ms Stewart said the social<br />
isolation has become so extreme,<br />
in some people it is a “low<br />
level of post traumatic stress<br />
disorder.”<br />
“There not in disaster<br />
DIFFICULTY:<br />
Long-term<br />
Dallington<br />
resident<br />
David Collins<br />
said a large<br />
number of<br />
people on<br />
the edge<br />
of the<br />
residential<br />
red zone<br />
are feeling<br />
isolated.<br />
mode anymore but they’re<br />
stuck and they can’t moved on.”<br />
Ms Stewart said the board<br />
had signalled it could be wellness<br />
plans could be rolled out<br />
in some of those other suburbs<br />
if the Dallington model was a<br />
success.<br />
“It’s not just in Dallington.<br />
It’s all those suburbs on the<br />
residential red zone fringe, like<br />
Burwood, Avondale, Redcliffs<br />
and Heathcote. This is going to<br />
be bigger than Dallington,” she<br />
said.<br />
Local<br />
News<br />
Now<br />
Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
Social media<br />
complaints<br />
decrease<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
COMPLAINTS MADE to New<br />
Brighton police over social media<br />
spats have decreased.<br />
Last month <strong>Pegasus</strong> <strong>Post</strong><br />
reported police had enough of<br />
the complaints taking up their<br />
resources.<br />
They said any non-threatening<br />
complaints needed to be directed<br />
to Netsafe.<br />
Police noticed an increase in<br />
complaints involving Facebook<br />
arguments between August and<br />
September.<br />
Sergeant Jim Currie said the<br />
message must have got through<br />
because social media-related complaints<br />
had dropped off by half.<br />
They are now only getting about<br />
one complaint a week, he said.<br />
But he said police are still getting<br />
several neighbour dispute<br />
call outs about two to three times<br />
a week.<br />
Sergeant Currie said a common<br />
problem is neighbours pruning<br />
trees that are overhanging onto<br />
another’s property without talking<br />
to each other.<br />
He said it can get to the point<br />
where serious threats are made<br />
but “nine times out of 10 it is just<br />
hot-headedness.”<br />
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