Selwyn Times: November 14, 2018

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Further concerns over shed
• By Karen Pasco
Kerry Pauling
A SHED on State Highway
73 which has the potential to
“cut someone in half,” is still
standing as the Springfield
township committee don’t want
to appear heavy-handed.
Concerns about the shed,
near the corner of Pocock Rd
and SH73, were highlighted at
a Malvern Community Board
meeting.
Malvern
Community
Board chairman
Kerry
Pauling said
the owner,
who was approached
by
a member of
the Springfield Township committee
last year, told them she
wanted to repair it. However, no
further repairs had been made.
“We’re not really going to
push the issue too hard. We
don’t want the township committee
to alienate themselves as
doing something to force the
issue much,” Mr Pauling said.
When asked if public safety
was more important than alienating
the committee, Mr Pauling
said the committee could
offer to help tidy up the shed
and get rid of the loose material.
“There has been a sheet of iron
come off already,” Mr Pauling said.
“It could just about cut someone
in half.”
The owners did not want
to pull the shed down as they
would have to get a building
consent to erect a new one on
the same site if the shed was
gone, he said.
Mr Pauling was going to
check with the council whether
this was the case. If a building
consent was needed, regardless
of whether the shed was there
or not, there was no point in the
shed staying.
A Selwyn District Council
spokesperson said the council
could do nothing “from a
Resource Management Act
standpoint,” to remove the current
shed.
New Zealand Transport
ISSUE: A shed
on Pocock
Rd has the
potential to
cause harm.
Agency media manager Frances
Adank said roading contractors
had not advised the organisation
of any shed thought to be
endangering motorists in that
location.
“We would be interested to
hear more from the community
board.”
NZTA would have to work
with the council to remove the
shed as it was on private land,
she said.
Local
News
Now
Have your say
on speed limits
Fire rages, homes at risk
SELWYN RESIDENTS can now
have their say on speeds in the
district.
The district council approved a
draft revised speed limit bylaw for
public consultation at its meeting
last week.
The revised bylaw will ensure
the district council meets its
legal obligations for setting speed
limits, and will bring the bylaw
up to date with best practice, New
Zealand Transport Agency and
legal requirements.
It also approved a range of
speed limit changes for public
consultation. These are mainly
around schools and follow a prior
round of speed limit changes late
last year.
Changes to some 70km/h zones
are also proposed, in line with
NZTA guidelines.
Consultation on both the bylaw
and the speed limit changes are
open until February.
The proposed speed limit
changes include reducing speed
limits around school frontages
to 40 km/h and a variable
40km/h school zone speed limit
on Weedons Ross Rd fronting
Weedons School and Robinsons
Rd fronting Broadfield School.
•For further information or
to make a submission visit
https://yoursay.selwyn.govt.
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