Southern View: May 07, 2019

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Fire rages, homes at risk
Board submits Annual Plan priorities
• By Matt Slaughter
IMPROVING people’s “wellbeing”
was a major feature of the
Coastal-Burwood Community
Board’s Annual Plan submission.
The board asked the city
council to bring forward funding
for the Oram Ave extension,
build a new
community
facility in
Burwood and
install toilets
closer to the
hydrotherapy
pool at the QE
Kim Money
II Recreation
and Sport
Centre.
The submission also asked for
repairs to the New Brighton War
Memorial cenotaph steps to be
completed, and for roads and
footpaths to be fixed.
The board also wants
stopbanks at the South New
Brighton and Southshore estuary
edges to be made permanent.
A decision should be made by
June on whether these projects
will go ahead.
Chairwoman Kim Money
and member Linda Stewart
presented the board’s submission
to Mayor Lianne Dalziel and city
councillors last week.
NEEDS: The Coastal-Burwood Community Board wants
funding to be made available sooner for the Oram Ave
extension and work on the New Brighton War Memorial
cenotaph to be completed.
Ms Money added some colour
to her opening address with
several rhymes.
“We’ve been hard-hit as
you know, but we need the
opportunity to grow,” she
said.
Ms Money said the projects
proposed to the city council are
important because they have the
potential to improve the mental
health of residents in the Coastal
and Burwood wards.
“Everything is connected to
well-being. It has been for many
years, but it’s even more so now.
Things are compounding and
the longer we leave these things
undone, the more it’s affecting
our community’s well-being,”
she said.
“We’re so far behind – we just
need to still have that budget
injection to do these things to
catch us up, really.”
All of the projects would help
the wards reach their potential,
she said.
“There are two wards here and
what’s important in Burwood
is different to what’s important
in Coastal . . . so, for us as a
community board, we’re pitching
for those all together.
“We’re behind in earthquake
repairs and we’re behind in
regeneration and so, therefore,
I think they’re all equally
important.”
“We have so much to offer the
city with our natural play areas
and beautiful scenery. It could
just really help the whole city
recover if they could put some
more injection of capital into our
area.”