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Tuesday <strong>February</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2019</strong> 5<br />
News<br />
Woolston village upgrade criticised<br />
• By Matt Slaughter<br />
CONTENTIOUS: Business owners are concerned a plan to upgrade the Woolston Village<br />
Centre will result in the loss of 14 on-street car parks along Ferry Rd.<br />
BUSINESSES AND a<br />
community board member are<br />
concerned after a proposal to<br />
upgrade the Woolston Village<br />
Centre was green-lighted.<br />
The decision was made at a<br />
Linwood-Central-Heathcote<br />
Community Board meeting last<br />
week and the project will now be<br />
brought to city council for final<br />
sign-off. The project to transform<br />
the centre, which runs down<br />
Ferry Rd, will result in the loss of<br />
14 on-street car parks.<br />
The original 2016 Woolston<br />
Village Centre upgrade proposal,<br />
which did not go ahead, would<br />
have resulted in the removal of<br />
48 on-street car parks.<br />
In spite of the new plan reducing<br />
this number, Woolston<br />
Pharmacy owner Simon Payne<br />
said business owners and shoppers<br />
will still be worse off if these<br />
parks are lost.<br />
“It is definitely negative for our<br />
customers. It will be negative for<br />
the whole shopping area, really.”<br />
“If you don’t have car parks<br />
that are convenient, then people<br />
are just going to drive on by.”<br />
From a pharmacy’s point of view,<br />
we get a lot of people who are<br />
injured, immobile, or have low<br />
mobility due to long-term health<br />
conditions . . . it is very inconvenient<br />
if they can’t park nearby<br />
where they want to go.”<br />
Mr Payne said a petition to keep<br />
the car parks, started by the pharmacy<br />
late last year, received more<br />
than 1000 signatures in one week.<br />
Around Again Cycles workshop<br />
manager Josh Boot said<br />
parking in the area was already<br />
difficult and losing more parks<br />
would make things even harder.<br />
“That’s a pretty substantial loss,<br />
I mean we already struggle for<br />
car parking as it is.”<br />
Woolston Bakery owner Min<br />
Che was also worried about losing<br />
business if the proposal went<br />
ahead.<br />
“We don’t want it to happen . . .<br />
because we are going to lose customers<br />
if there are no car parks<br />
on the street.”<br />
The project will also involve<br />
the planting of trees and plants<br />
around the village, and new footpaths<br />
and street furniture.<br />
Linwood-Central-Heathcote<br />
Community Board member<br />
Brenda Lowe-Johnson said she<br />
has concerns about the kauri<br />
trees which would be planted.<br />
“Kauris are a North Island tree,<br />
they don’t belong to the South<br />
Island and they don’t grow here<br />
very well. I’m not very happy<br />
about that either because it’s a<br />
waste of money having something<br />
that’s not going to grow properly.”<br />
The proposal will be presented<br />
to city council on Thursday and<br />
a decision is expected in the<br />
next six weeks as to whether the<br />
project will go ahead.<br />
If it does, construction is<br />
anticipated to start in January.<br />
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Ice skaters<br />
raise $10k for<br />
Cure Kids<br />
HUNDREDS OF ice skaters have<br />
helped raise more than $10,000<br />
for Cure Kids.<br />
The Alpine Ice Sports Centre<br />
donated an entire day’s takings<br />
and donations from customers to<br />
the child health research charity.<br />
The money will go towards<br />
medical research to help improve,<br />
extend and save the lives of Kiwi<br />
kids living with serious illnesses<br />
and conditions.<br />
Alpine Ice manager Finn<br />
O’Leary said the team was<br />
thrilled to raise so much for Cure<br />
Kids research and felt the day had<br />
been an amazing team-building<br />
exercise for staff.<br />
The event saw a record number<br />
of customers visit the ice rink<br />
– the highest in one day since it<br />
first opened 33 years ago.<br />
Cure Kids chief executive<br />
Frances Benge said the generosity<br />
of the Alpine Ice team was<br />
overwhelming.<br />
“To think Alpine Ice donated<br />
their entire day’s takings to Cure<br />
Kids . . . is just so heart-warming.<br />
The money they raised will help<br />
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health research we are supporting<br />
to find preventative strategies,<br />
treatments and, one day, cures<br />
our children need, “ he said.<br />
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