Selwyn Times: March 06, 2019

8 Wednesday March 6 2019
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SELWYN TIMES
In Brief
STOLEN UTE
A stolen ute belonging to
the Prebbleton Veterinary
Hospital has been recovered by
police. The white Ford Ranger
was stolen on Friday. Police
found the vehicle abandoned
in Burnside on Saturday. A
police spokeswoman said it is
following strong lines of inquiry
to find those responsible.
MADDIE RECOVERING
West Melton teenager
Maddie Collins is recovering
back home after a health scare
last month. The 15-year-old
was dealing with kidney rejection
and norovirus – and was
flown to Auckland’s Starship
Hospital last month. She is now
back home in West Melton. Her
mother Sarah Manson-Collins
said Maddie’s kidney is still
struggling. Maddie, who suffers
from the kidney disease nephrotic
syndrome, underwent a
kidney transplant more than a
year ago.
ROAD REPAIRS
Work has been completed on
Ellesmere Junction Rd between
Shands Rd and Springston. The
district council said chip has
been laid on the recently
resealed stretch of the road.
While it may have a patchy appearance,
the chip will provide
a waterproof layer.
More time to explain quarry
Fulton Hogan
must respond
by Tuesday
• By Anan Zaki
FULTON HOGAN has been
given more time to respond
to requests for additional
information about its
controversial quarry plan near
Weedons.
Environment Canterbury
and the district council asked
Fulton Hogan in December
for additional details about its
plan to quarry
at a 170ha
site bordered
by Curraghs,
Dawsons, Jones
and Maddisons
Rds.
Fulton Hogan
Simon
Moore
told the two
councils in
January it would
respond to the requests by
Thursday last week.
But on Wednesday, ECan
said Fulton Hogan asked for
more time to provide the
most up-to-date information,
including a revised draft cleanfill
management plan and a visual
impact assessment.
ECan said Fulton Hogan’s
MORE TIME: Fulton Hogan has until Tuesday to respond to
requests for more information about its proposed quarry near
Weedons.
response is now expected by
Tuesday. Weedons Residents’
Association member Simon
Moore believed Fulton Hogan
has given itself an “optimistic”
time frame.
“It doesn’t matter, we’re ready,”
Mr Moore said.
Mr Moore was also
disappointed ECan and the
district council had not offered
generic submission writing help
sessions for Weedons residents.
The city council offered six
generic submission writing
sessions to Templeton residents.
A number of Weedons
residents attended the city
council event because the district
council and ECan did not offer
the sessions, Mr Moore said.
ECan consent and planning
manager Virginia Loughnan said
it and the district council will
not provide the sessions until the
resource consent application is
publicly notified.
“We are choosing to run these
during the notification period
as that is when the public can
make submissions and therefore
is more timely and can help
inform an actual submission as
the whole application will be
available then,” she said.
Said Mr Moore: “What’s the
point of that? Why?”
“Why do we have to wait? It’s
going to be a rush as it is. I just
don’t see any point,” he said.
Fulton Hogan submitted a
resource consent application
to quarry near Templeton and
Weedons in late November.
ECan requested more
information about the scope
of the application, Canterbury
air regional plan assessments,
effects on air quality, dust
management, groundwater
effects, well use, effects on water
races, aggregate washdown
water, truck washing, stormwater
discharges, land contamination,
hazardous substance storage,
clean-fill management and
site rehabilitation. The district
council requested more
information on transportation
matters, noise, landscape,
assessment of effects, mitigation
measures and planning and other
general information.
HAVE YOUR SAY: Should
ECan and the district council
have provided generic
submission writing sessions
to Weedons residents –
similar to Christchurch
City Council’s sessions
for Templeton? Send your
thoughts to anan.zaki@
starmedia.kiwi
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