The Star: April 04, 2019
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Dur<br />
Caledonian Rd<br />
Colombo St<br />
Sherborne St<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>April</strong> 4 <strong>2019</strong><br />
• By Julia Evans<br />
CITY COUNCILLORS want<br />
more rent from the Court<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre for its future home in the<br />
$31.5 million Performing Arts<br />
Precinct.<br />
Design work is now beginning<br />
on the delayed precinct after<br />
its business case was approved<br />
behind closed doors at the last<br />
city council meeting.<br />
However, as part of the<br />
resolution, city council staff have<br />
been asked to negotiate the level<br />
of rent with the Court <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
to “better<br />
contribute”<br />
to the overall<br />
operating costs<br />
of the facility.<br />
<strong>The</strong> precinct,<br />
which will<br />
include a<br />
360-seat main<br />
theatre, studio<br />
theatre for<br />
150, rehearsal<br />
rooms and an<br />
educational space, is planned for<br />
the block bound by Armargh,<br />
Colombo, Gloucester and New<br />
Regent Sts.<br />
But planned operational<br />
costs and amount of rent from<br />
the Court were redacted from<br />
the business case report due to<br />
commercial sensitivity.<br />
Court <strong>The</strong>atre chief executive<br />
Barbara George said it will<br />
continue to work in partnership<br />
with the city. However, she said<br />
it was too early in the process to<br />
reveal costs.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Court is open to<br />
negotiating rent costs with the<br />
city council once we get further<br />
down the track in realising<br />
our new home. At this stage it<br />
is too early to share any of the<br />
specifics.”<br />
She said it was looking forward<br />
to being back in the central<br />
city in a “few years’ time” as<br />
the theatre has been based in<br />
Addington since 2011.<br />
City councillor Deon Swiggs<br />
news online at www.star.kiwi<br />
Court asked to stump up for precinct<br />
Barbara<br />
George<br />
said an increase was needed to<br />
reduce the impact of the facility<br />
on ratepayers.<br />
“It’s about finding ways to<br />
minimise the cost to the city. I’m<br />
not keen to see the process stop,<br />
we need to get something done,<br />
but we can’t keep racking up<br />
costs,” he said.<br />
City councillor Yani<br />
Johanson said it needed to ensure<br />
the precinct was financially<br />
stable.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re’s a huge cost associated<br />
to it. <strong>The</strong> model must make sense<br />
to a ratepayer,” he said.<br />
COST: City<br />
council staff will<br />
work with the<br />
Court <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
on how much<br />
rent it will pay<br />
for the new<br />
Performing Arts<br />
Precinct<br />
<strong>The</strong> city council is developing<br />
the facilities – with its<br />
contribution capped at $30<br />
million – and the Crown is<br />
providing the land, as well as<br />
$1.5 million toward the cost<br />
of developing the public realm<br />
spaces. <strong>The</strong> Court will pay for the<br />
precinct’s fit out.<br />
Options for providing parking<br />
within the precinct are also being<br />
investigated.<br />
“I’m looking forward to the car<br />
parking outcome and whether<br />
that could go back into the<br />
revenue,” he said.<br />
NEWS 9<br />
Stability of hills<br />
may change<br />
District Plan<br />
SLOPE INSTABILITY risk in<br />
parts of the Port Hills could lead<br />
to changes to the District Plan.<br />
After the earthquakes, slope<br />
instability modelling was done in<br />
the Port Hills to identify which<br />
properties were affected by, or<br />
potentially at risk from, rockfall,<br />
cliff collapse or mass movement.<br />
As a result of that modelling,<br />
mapped hazard areas, called<br />
slope instability overlays, were<br />
included within the District Plan.<br />
In the slope instability overlays,<br />
most development requires<br />
resource consent.<br />
However, hazard removal<br />
works done over the past few<br />
years, coupled with new technical<br />
information, means there is<br />
now a different or lower risk in<br />
some parts of the slope stability<br />
overlays.<br />
Yesterday, the regulatory<br />
performance committee voted<br />
to recommend the city council<br />
ask Minister for Greater<br />
Christchurch Regeneration<br />
Megan Woods to use Section<br />
71 of the Greater Christchurch<br />
Regeneration Act to update<br />
District Plan to reflect the<br />
changed risk profile.<br />
Without an amendment,<br />
affected property owners would<br />
continue to have unnecessary<br />
restrictions, costs and<br />
uncertainty imposed on them.<br />
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