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4 Tuesday July 16 2019 Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi News SOUTHERN VIEW Southworth to stand in south seat • By Jess Gibson A FOURTH candidate will contest Environment Canterbury’s Owhanga – South seat. Geologist Vicky Southworth, of Sumner, has announced she will stand for a seat which covers Canterbury’s bays, inlets and harbours in October’s local body elections. Mrs Southworth will be standing as an independent against Labour-aligned People’s Choice candidate’s James Dann and Phil Clearwater and one other independent, Hamish Keown. Mrs Southworth has a Master of Water Resource Management from Canterbury University which ties into 15 years of scientific and planning skills experience. She is trained as a geologist and has regularly helped and lead restoration planting and maintenance projects like Sumner School’s planting day at Sumnervale Reserve on June 22. Vicky Southworth As a community representative on the Canterbury water management strategy regional committee, she has been involved in the complex issue of freshwater management. “I’ve seen how ECan works and have got a good sense of what’s working and what isn’t, at least in the water space,” Mrs Southworth said. Within the boundary that the south seat covers, Mrs Southworth wants to see habitat expansion in the Port Hills and Banks Peninsula. “Linking up the bits we have so that species can migrate and repopulate areas is an efficient way to build resilience. Akaroa has a reintroduced tui population that’s doing well now,” she said. She would also like to work more closely with central Government to e xplore options for planting native trees as climate change mitigation, which could bring in revenue. “I like to talk to people, listen and then mull over what I hear,’’ she said. •To stay up to date with Mrs Southworth’s campaign, visit the Facebook page @ VickyforEcanChchSouth. Community board member could put hand up for council • By Georgia O’Connor-Harding MORE NAMES are beginning to emerge in the race for the city council Riccarton Ward October local body elections. Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton Community Board member Debbie Mora is considering putting her name forward to contest against Catherine Chu and Peter Laloli in Riccarton. “That fact Vicki Buck has stood down has opened up that opportunity in Riccarton but I am also weighing up Halswell,” she said. Ms Mora is planning to make a decision over the next coming weeks. Her reason for considering the city council was because she did not feel she could make a huge difference on the community board. “You want to be making decisions for the whole of the city,” Ms Mora said. If she runs for the city council, her goal will be to not only cap rates but lower them by “nipping in the bud” excess expenditure. “We want to repair our city but not at the cost of it being goldplated.” Ms Mora is also concerned Debbie Mora cycleways are taking away far too many car parks and businesses and wants to ensure the city’s water supply is not chlorinated. Although, Ms Mora was elected as a board member under the Halswell Ward in the 2016 elections with 3414 votes, she said she has been making decisions not only for Halswell, but the Hornby and Riccarton Wards for the last six years. In 2013, she was elected to represent all three wards before the representation boundaries changed in 2016. COPPER RIDGE OffERs COMMUNIty AND LIfEstyLE IN HALsWELL stAGEs 1 AND 2 ARE NEARLy sOLD OUt, stAGE 3 jUst RELEAsED. tItLEs HAvE BEEN IssUED, AND CONstRUCtION HAs stARtED. family friendly community right across the brand new Knights stream school (years 1-8), bike track, skate park, green fields. www.generation.co.nz/christchurch MAKING BUILDING easy Like us on Facebook: Generation Homes Christchurch
SOUTHERN VIEW Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi 5 Kyle Park could be safely built on – report • By Georgia O’Connor-Harding “WE EITHER say now yes let’s go ahead and finally get this Hornby facility up and running or, for some amazing reason, stuff around even further and that in my view would be completely unforgivable”. That was Vicki Buck’s final argument in supporting the reclassifying part of Kyle Park to allow the Hornby Vicki Buck Mike Mora Library, Service Centre and South West Pool to be built. The Halswell- Hornby- Riccarton Community Board gave the final approval for the reclassification and changes to the Kyle Park Management Plan 1993 last night. It was after a hearings panel led by Papanui-Innes Community Board deputy chairwoman Emma Norrish made a recommendation for the changes to go ahead after considering 181 submissions. Concerns had been raised in the past due to Kyle Park being a former landfill which closed in 1981. At the meeting, Ms Buck argued a geotechnical and ground assessment report by Tonkin + Taylor on Kyle Park outweighed elected members, given ground security and land stability is what they do every day. The report confirmed Kyle Park could be safely and successfully built on. “When we started this six years ago, Linwood Pool was behind Hornby. Linwood is now designed and ready to start building and those kids are going to get a pool.” Board chairman Mike Mora, deputy chairwoman Helen Broughton, city councillors Anne Galloway, Jimmy Chen, Vicki Buck, board members Catherine Chu and Natalie Bryden voted in support. But the decision didn’t go ACTION: The Halswell- Hornby- Riccarton Community Board has approved reclassifying part of Kyle Park to allow the Hornby Library, Service Centre and South West Pool to go ahead. Tuesday July 16 2019 Local News Now Fire rages, homes at risk through without meeting opposition from some, with Ross McFarlane and Debbie Mora voting against the changes. Ms Mora said she is passionate about getting a pool in the south-west and she would have no qualms if the facility was not being built on a landfill. Last night she read out a statement made by a former project manager for the Hornby facility at a city council meeting on the facility in August 2017. At the time he said: “No matter how much site investigation we completed we’d never know all the risks, that’s the reality . . . we do see people building on landfill, it’s definitely possible but it definitely offers a high-risk proposition to the council.” Ms Mora said she was also concerned the Tonkin + Taylor report did not cover the effects of landfill leachate. She said she has since had her concerns “reasonably satisfied” following a seminar with city council staff after the meeting, but could not comment further due to it being publiclyexcluded. Mr McFarlane also voted against the changes. “No other sites we have built something on is on 11 metres of rubbish, that is the risk we take,” he said. Board member Catherine Chu said the decision on using Kyle Park for the facility had already been made and the issue at hand was the reclassification. “Let’s just focus on getting the facility to the people of Hornby because they have been waiting a long, long time.” In the coming weeks, the city council will be asking the community to share their ideas on the planned facility. It is our pleasure to invite you to our... Landlord Information Breakfast “Navigating the rapidly changing legislation” This week’s Join the Ray White Morris & Co Property Management Team for breakfast and find out what your new obligations are as a landlord, and what the upcoming Healthy Homes Act means for you. Cost $29 for a full buffet breakfast, tea and coffee. Wednesday 24 July 2019 | 7.00am - 8.30am (speakers start 7.15am) At The Poppy Room, Christchurch RSA, 74 Armagh Street, Christchurch Please RSVP at https://canterburypm.co.nz/events/landlords We would love to see you there! We are local experts with Canterbury-wide knowledge providing professional Property Management services with a personal approach Ray White Morris & Co Property Management Limited 03 331 6755 morrispm.nz@raywhite.com canterburypm.co.nz Want to be elected? • Local Council • Community Board • Ecan • CDHB Star Media can help you. Talk to us today about your campaign. imagination station Monday 15th July to Saturday 20th July, 10am - 4pm Build whatever you want - a car, a plane, a flower... wherever your imagination takes you! Contact: Mark Sinclair 03 364 7461 021 913 566 mark.sinclair@starmedia.kiwi
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