Western News: April 23, 2019
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8 Tuesday <strong>April</strong> <strong>23</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
WESTERN NEWS<br />
Your Local Views<br />
Readers respond to the<br />
<strong>Western</strong> <strong>News</strong> article on<br />
dogs being let off the lead<br />
in areas at the Halswell<br />
Quarry where they are<br />
supposed to be leashed at<br />
all times<br />
Gary Knight - Given the<br />
vast expanse of the Halswell<br />
Quarry dog exercise area, it is<br />
unnecessary to allow dogs to<br />
be unleashed at any other point<br />
of the quarry park facility. The<br />
often steep incline, slippery<br />
surface and loose gravel of the<br />
quarry rim track makes for<br />
careful walking at all times. It<br />
is essential, therefore, that dogs<br />
are restrained through this<br />
walk to avoid them rushing at<br />
or encountering walkers often<br />
resultant in slips, falls and<br />
possible injury throughout this<br />
terrain. The responsible attitude<br />
of dog owners in adhering to this<br />
is paramount, to alleviate the<br />
continuous need for city council<br />
monitoring to ensure this.<br />
Don Robertson - When<br />
my older boy was young, we<br />
used to go to the quarry park<br />
regularly. We’d take him and<br />
his friends around the quarry<br />
rim track, have a picnic and<br />
so on. We also went to several<br />
of the planting days there and<br />
enjoyed seeing the trees we<br />
helped plant growing. Over the<br />
summer I took my youngest<br />
son – a two-year-old – to the<br />
ISSUES: Readers respond to the <strong>Western</strong> <strong>News</strong> article on dogs being let off the lead in areas at<br />
the Halswell Quarry where they are supposed to be leashed at all times.<br />
quarry park for a walk around<br />
the quarry rim track and we<br />
were going to have a picnic in<br />
the picnic area. Unfortunately,<br />
we had about a dozen<br />
dogs running up to us<br />
and jumping about us<br />
in the hour or so we<br />
spent there. As soon as<br />
one dog left, another<br />
one came up. As we<br />
gave up and started<br />
heading for home, I<br />
said to one owner that<br />
dogs should be on a lead in that<br />
area of the park. He said nobody<br />
cared what I thought. We haven’t<br />
been back. Irresponsible owners<br />
have always been a problem, but<br />
lately, it has been ridiculous. I<br />
did complain to the city council,<br />
and was told there are only<br />
two animal control officers<br />
covering Christchurch - from<br />
the Waimakariri to<br />
Akaroa - and there was<br />
nothing that could be<br />
done. (Abridged).<br />
Readers respond<br />
to the article<br />
on a resource<br />
application being<br />
made to the city<br />
council to open an eight<br />
cinema complex in Wigram<br />
Margaret Taylor - I would<br />
love to have a cinema at Wigram<br />
as its my local shopping centre, it<br />
certainly would pull the people<br />
in as nothing in Hornby.<br />
Barbara Tyson - I have lived<br />
in Wigram for the past 20-odd<br />
years and have seen so many<br />
changes. It’s great. I totally agree<br />
with the possibility of a cinema<br />
being built. It will also help the<br />
new businesses that have started<br />
up at The Landing.<br />
Nicki Howe - Well as a<br />
resident on The Runway this is<br />
the first we had heard about it.<br />
Do we want an eight cinema<br />
complex? No is my answer to<br />
this, so not all locals are happy<br />
or it seems informed. Eighteen<br />
months ago, we made a massive<br />
decision to sell our family<br />
home of 18 years and move<br />
to the quiet newly developed<br />
area of Wigram. We love the<br />
quaintness of the area, if it was<br />
to be one or two small cinemas<br />
like The Colombo or Hollywood<br />
in Sumner, then yes, okay but<br />
eight, seriously this is not the<br />
area for this, take it back to<br />
Hornby’s main centre, where<br />
the general public have easy<br />
access to this facility. This will<br />
bring more traffic into the area<br />
making the main roads in and<br />
out of The Landing more busy,<br />
idiots speeding up and down<br />
the straight stretches of road,<br />
littering because people who<br />
don’t live here give a damn,<br />
vandals, home robberies will<br />
increase and the list goes on. We<br />
really think the city council and<br />
Ngai Tahu have to think about<br />
the big picture and effect it will<br />
have on the local residents and<br />
not just their pockets. We have<br />
paid premium prices to own<br />
homes in this subdivision with<br />
many covenant restrictions<br />
imposed on us so why should<br />
such a large development be<br />
allowed. Anyway I guess at the<br />
end of the day our say doesn’t<br />
matter, it will happen no matter<br />
what and we will have to live<br />
with it. All be it when we say I<br />
told you so. Saddened if this goes<br />
ahead.<br />
Diane Richardson - What a<br />
great idea, about time.<br />
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