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4 Wednesday <strong>May</strong> 8 <strong>2019</strong><br />

Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />

SELWYN TIMES<br />

News<br />

<strong>May</strong>or says no to funding new stadium<br />

•From page 1<br />

Mr Broughton revealed his<br />

U-turn on funding the stadium<br />

after he was put on the spot about<br />

the topic last week.<br />

He was asked by city councillor<br />

Yani Johanson about the issue at<br />

an Annual Plan submission in<br />

Christchurch.<br />

Cr Johanson<br />

asked if both<br />

councils should<br />

work together<br />

on the proposed<br />

stadium.<br />

“So you’re<br />

Bruce<br />

Russell<br />

happy for us<br />

[Christchurch] to<br />

pay for the whole<br />

stadium?” Cr Johanson asked.<br />

In response, Mr Broughton<br />

said he could not answer the<br />

question as the district hasn’t<br />

been asked to pay.<br />

Said Mr Broughton: “At the<br />

moment Christchurch and the<br />

[central] Government can pay<br />

for what they are wanting to<br />

build, so there’s no need for extra<br />

discussion.”<br />

He said his viewpoint was<br />

based on a number of factors.<br />

“It’s based on discussions<br />

with ratepayers and also on the<br />

idea that while many things are<br />

better done locally by a town or<br />

a district, other things can be<br />

achieved better by working as a<br />

region,” Mr Broughton said.<br />

“I think the multi-use stadium<br />

has the interest of the region<br />

and is of the scale that a regional<br />

discussion should have been<br />

had.”<br />

<strong>Selwyn</strong> <strong>Times</strong> canvassed<br />

residents’ group members from<br />

across the district about the<br />

stadium debate.<br />

West Melton Residents’<br />

Association member Bruce<br />

Russell welcomed Mr<br />

Broughton’s new direction.<br />

“I believe we should have a<br />

stadium, there’s no question<br />

about that,” he said.<br />

“I would have some<br />

reservations, though, if we as a<br />

council should be levied a rate<br />

for it. I think that it’s individual.<br />

If they [Christchurch] want it<br />

desperately, they should be the<br />

ones who are contributing.”<br />

NO GO:<br />

<strong>May</strong>or Sam<br />

Broughton<br />

no longer<br />

believes<br />

the district<br />

should help<br />

fund a new<br />

stadium in<br />

Christchurch.<br />

Rolleston Residents’<br />

Association chairwoman Leonie<br />

MacLachlan said, in her opinion,<br />

the district should not pay for the<br />

stadium.<br />

“I don’t want to pay for a<br />

stadium in Christchurch out<br />

of anything from the district<br />

council. I believe if it was the<br />

other way around, Christchurch<br />

City Council would not help us<br />

in anyway,” she said.<br />

Leeston Community<br />

Committee chairman Lloyd<br />

Clausen said, in his personal<br />

view, he agreed with Mr<br />

Broughton’s change of tune.<br />

Mr Broughton hoped the<br />

stadium would meet whichever<br />

standards may be demanded by<br />

the rest of Canterbury.<br />

“If the region of Canterbury<br />

had been involved from the start,<br />

I think that would have been a<br />

better process,” he said.<br />

Environment Canterbury was<br />

the only local body that could<br />

set a regional rate to fund the<br />

stadium, Mr Broughton said.<br />

But ECan has previously stated<br />

it did not include the stadium in<br />

its 2018-2028 Long Term Plan as<br />

it was never asked for funding<br />

by the city council and central<br />

Government. Its next Long Term<br />

Plan review is in 2021.<br />

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