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Tuesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
PEGASUS POST<br />
News<br />
Last chance<br />
on bus<br />
route battle<br />
• By Ashleigh Monk<br />
RESIDENTS OF a Mairehau<br />
retirement village will have<br />
one last chance to convince<br />
Environment Canterbury to<br />
change the No 44 bus route.<br />
ECan announced last month<br />
it would not re-route the bus<br />
through some residential streets,<br />
leaving residents of Diana Isaac<br />
Retirement Village having to<br />
travel 1km to the nearest bus<br />
stop.<br />
But ECan will meet again with<br />
residents tomorrow to hear their<br />
concerns.<br />
The proposed extension of the<br />
44 route was intended to make<br />
up for the loss of the Orbiter due<br />
to roading changes as part of the<br />
Northern Corridor project.<br />
Retirement village resident<br />
Graham Tate said he was surprised<br />
when ECan announced<br />
the route would not change, as it<br />
had given a “strong indication”<br />
that it would.<br />
“We believe that access to<br />
public transport for such a large<br />
group of elderly and disabled<br />
should be a prime consideration<br />
of an effective bus transport<br />
coordinator.”<br />
Hot pool decision pleases residents, businesses<br />
•From page 1<br />
Mr Hughes said it was hard to<br />
say if New Brighton’s commercial<br />
area was struggling because<br />
the whole country’s retail sector<br />
is suffering due to increases in<br />
the cost of living, petrol and<br />
food prices.<br />
Uncertainty still lies over<br />
whether the hot pools will have<br />
a flow-on effect for reviving the<br />
commercial centre of the suburb.<br />
Eastern Vision spokesman<br />
Evan Smith said it is a step in<br />
the right direction but he would<br />
like to see more priority given to<br />
the regeneration of the business<br />
district.<br />
<strong>Pegasus</strong> <strong>Post</strong> previously reported<br />
businesses were lacking<br />
confidence the city council was<br />
going to follow through on its<br />
approved New Brighton Centre<br />
Master Plan.<br />
Three years ago the city council<br />
approved the plan which was<br />
to extend Oram Ave through to<br />
the main thoroughfare of Hawke<br />
St.<br />
This was to create a new<br />
north-south shopping and entertainment<br />
precinct.<br />
“It is all very well bringing<br />
this into the area but unless the<br />
issues in the business district are<br />
dealt with as proposing the master<br />
plan then the regeneration of<br />
New Brighton is still going<br />
to remain stalled,” Mr Smith<br />
said.<br />
He said the business area in<br />
New Brighton has not reached<br />
its potential because the plan has<br />
not yet been implemented.<br />
Northshore Residents’ Association<br />
chairwoman Jayne Mark<br />
said the hot pools are a good<br />
thing that will improve and<br />
bring more people the area and<br />
make it more attractive.<br />
She said currently the business<br />
area in general looks “bad and<br />
derelict” and it was understandable<br />
why people didn’t want to<br />
go to the area.<br />
GREEN LIGHT:<br />
An artist’s<br />
impression<br />
showing what<br />
the New Brighton<br />
hot pools will<br />
look like when<br />
it is completed.<br />
Resource<br />
consents have<br />
been secured<br />
to allow work<br />
to begin on<br />
the facility next<br />
month.<br />
•HAVE YOUR SAY: Do you think the New Brighton hot pools<br />
will help recover the suburb’s commercial centre? Email your<br />
views to georgia.oconnor@starmedia.kiwi<br />
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