Nor'West News: May 14, 2019

6 Tuesday May 14 2019
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Association
to remain
informal
• By Jess Gibson
THE REDWOOD Business
and Residents’ Association will
remain informal until it gains
more momentum.
There were 16 attendees at
the group’s second meeting last
week, including business owners,
residents and Papanui-Innes
Community Board members.
Donna Brenssell was involved
in starting the association up last
month.
She said members would like
more people to get involved and
for the group to decide on specific
issues or goals they would
like to work on before officiating
the association. One issue which
was discussed at the meeting was
the lack of proposed planning
for Redwood in the city council’s
Long Term Plan.
Mrs Brenssell said the group
also thought about focussing on
the impact that the Northern
Corridor will have.
She said the group will continue
to meet monthly and will
appoint members to roles once
the group strengthens.
The next meeting will be
held on June 11 at 7pm at the
Christchurch Function Centre,
Redwood Hotel.
Bid to get fee dropped unlikely
• By Jess Gibson
A HAREWOOD couple may
have failed in their bid to have
an $1800 resource consent
fee waived over troublesome
trees.
Graeme and Diane Barber
have asked the city council
to drop the $1800 fee, so they
can apply to have six 16m oak
trees in Pasadena Reserve cut
down.
The couple who live in Cam Pl
have been battling the city council
for 10 years over the trees,
which they say block the sun to
their property and impact their
wellbeing.
But a response, which Mr
Barber received from the city
council last week, indicated that
a waiver was unlikely because
the trees are more than 10m tall
and in good health.
“There’s nothing in there that
gives me any hope there would
be a fee waiver,” he said.
“I’m not feeling very good
about it.”
Mr Barber wanted the fees
waived as he believed that paying
for the application put the blame
on residents for something that
was not their fault.
“The decisions that the city
council has made in the past
hasn’t considered other people in
the long term,” Mr Barber said.
He said when he shared
the information with his
neighbours, who are also
affected, their reaction was
“horror.”
“At this point in time,
everything is lumped on
the applicant who had no
responsibility in the decisionmaking
process and is feeling
guilty by association,” Mr Barber
said.
He said he will figure out how
to move forward in the coming
months.
But Fendalton-Waimairi-
Harewood Community Board
chairman Sam MacDonald said
it was a “tricky situation” as the
waived fee would end up costing
ratepayers.
“We sympathise with Mr
Barber over the situation, but
the reality is that if there was
an exception to be made in
one case, ratepayers could end
up subsidising the removal of
trees right across the city,” Mr
BATTLE: Graeme
Barber asked the
city council to
drop a resource
consent fee so
he and his wife
Diane can apply
to have six oak
trees cut down.
MacDonald said.
“It’s not an easy situation at all.
“Down the line, there is
also paying for the actual trees
to be removed, which would
be bloody expensive,” Mr
MacDonald said.
The $1800 fee for resource
consent is only a deposit.
The final fees are the
actual costs of processing the
removal of the trees and there
may be a refund or a further
invoice.
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