Western News: April 16, 2019

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More time to save Yaldhurst hall
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding
THE PRESSURE on Yaldhurst
residents to come up with a
business case to save their hall
has been lifted.
The city council has not made
a decision on the Yaldhurst
Memorial Hall’s future, so no
timeline is in place as to when
it will be demolished. Residents
were given
until this
month to come
up the business
case to save the
building.
City council
head of
community
John Filsell
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John Filsell said funding is still
available for the demolition if it
is required.
The city council has put aside
about $80,000 for the demolition
the 64-year-old memorial hall on
Pound Rd.
The Yaldhurst Memorial
Committee previously asked the
city council if the funding could
be used to instead strengthen the
hall.
Mr Filsell said the funding
is part of a wider programme
budget but could be repurposed
HOPE: No timeline is in place to demolish the Yaldhurst
Memorial Hall.
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN ​
over time if the city council has
more pressing needs.
Committee member Michelle
Clark said it still wants to move
quickly on repairing the hall.
She said the committee has
done a substantial amount of
work on the business case but
it needs to finalise some of the
costs to determine how the
strengthening of the hall can be
funded.
The committee’s key priorities
are to repair the hall’s roof and to
bring it up to 67 per cent of the
New Building Standard.
The roof repairs are estimated
to cost about $5000, while the
cost of strengthening the hall is
still being finalised.
“We want to establish the
building is over 37 per cent (of
the New Building Standard),
which means we can get in (and)
clean it up,” Miss Clark said.
The committee’s engineer
believes the hall is above 37
per cent of the New Building
Standard.
However, an agreement needs
to be established between the
city council’s engineer and the
committee’s engineer over the
building’s current rating.​
The committee has made
a funding application to the
city council draft Annual Plan
2019/2020 to make the hall
watertight and for strengthening
work.
The next step is for the
committee to put forward a new
engineering assessment on the
hall to the city council.
Miss Clark said the most
disappointing thing was most of
the damage happened before the
earthquakes. The main damage
is to the spouting on the roof,
which was caused when the
copper was ripped off and stolen
before the February 22, 2011,
earthquake.
Because the roof wasn’t fixed,
part of the ceiling collapsed,
which caused the carpet and area
underneath the floorboards to
rot as a result of water damage.
The hall also sustained cosmetic
cracks in the February 22, 2011,
earthquake.
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They were selected along
with four other students from
across the city to take part in
the week-long programme
which finishes on Thursday.
Fifty-six year 11-13 students
are in the Waikato learning
about environmental issues.
They are studying climate
change, marine ecology,
freshwater health and
biodiversity decline.
The programme is run by
the Sir Peter Blake Trust.​
The students are developing
their leadership skills and
learning about environmental
innovation.
They are also being exposed
to career paths in their fields
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