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2 Tuesday August 27 2019 Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi get in touch GENERAL INQUIRIES Ph 379 7100 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Ph 379 1100 Star Media, a division of Allied Press Ltd PO box 1467, Christchurch starmedia.kiwi sport Cashmere High underdogs Intensity is what Cashmere High School basketball coach Paul Conner wants to see in the Thomson Trophy final tonight. Page 8 community events Learn to play music Mainly Music will be held on Wednesday at St Johns Anglican Church, Woolston, from 10-11.30am. SOUTHERN VIEW NEWS Georgia O’Connor-Harding Ph: 021 910 730 georgia.oconnor@starmedia.kiwi ADVERTISING Mark Sinclair Ph: 364 7461 mark.sinclair@starmedia.kiwi The best-read local newspaper, delivered to 15,600 homes every Tuesday Spreydon, Hoon Hay, Hillmorton, Cracroft, Cashmere, St Martins, Somerfield, Sydenham, Addington, Waltham, Opawa, Beckenham, Huntsbury, Woolston. Page 12 tasty bites Healthy chicken a hit Scotch eggs using chicken mince and cooked in an air fryer is a tasty breakfast dish. Page 15 • The Star • North Canterbury News • Selwyn Times • Ashburton Courier also publishing: • Bay Harbour News • Western News • Pegasus Post • Western News Fall in love with your favourite furniture all over again! before Come play Find a club near you! www.lovetennis.kiwi *Times may vary by club. Please check website for details. First club visitors receive a All welcome it's free Sat 7 & Sun 8 Sept 1-4pm RACQUETS SUPPLIED. BBQ. PRIZES. GIVEAWAYS. Tennis clubs from Oxford to Ashburton are opening their doors for a fun, FREE event for all ages. YOU COULD WIN A TRIP FOR TWO TO THE ASB CLASSIC IN AUCKLAND THIS JANUARY 200 FREE snack pizza • Recover your chairs and couches and save money! • Excellent range of fabrics • Quality workmanship guaranteed • Free quotes available • Over 30 years experience Somerfield Upholstery Ltd FURNITURE RECOVERY SPECIALIST Looking for a Check out our fabric glass cases. Four beautiful designs and colours to choose from. Don’t miss out! great buy? ONly $12 eACH after 6/47 Sonter Road, Wigram | Ph 021 251 6200 | 349 0456 BARRINGTON, 256 Barrington Street PH 332 1730 | www.suckling.co.nz
SOUTHERN VIEW Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Tuesday August 27 2019 3 News Reassurance for village residents • By Georgia O’Connor-Harding LONG-SUFFERING retirement village residents putting up with noisy vehicles driving past their homes have been reassured they have not been forgotten. Lady Wigram Retirement Village residents battling to have heavy vehicle restrictions placed on Lodestar Ave were left “disappointed” when the road was left out of a major speed limit review for Halswell and Anne Galloway Hornby. The Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton Community Board recently recommended a raft of changes to speed limits, which will go to the city council for final approval. However, city councillor Anne Galloway said residents should not feel forgotten as the issue of the lowering the speed limit on the road is being dealt with. Lodestar Ave will instead be included in a review of the speed limits around the Wigram Skies area. City council transport operations manager Steffan Thomas said any proposed changes to Lodestar Ave’s speed limit will COMFORT: Lodestar Ave residents have been reassured they have not been forgotten after their road was left out of a major speed limit review for Halswell and Hornby. be brought to the community board in the next 12 months. Said Cr Galloway: “It has not been forgotten at all, it is just not happening as quickly as I would have liked and perhaps what I have expected.” She said she has been told by city council staff the consultation is likely to happen sooner than 12 months. For the past four years, noisy trucks on Lodestar Ave has been a long-standing issue for Buy pre-loved & spread the love Clothing | furniture | household goods residents living at the retirement village. The matter came to a head in 2017 when prominent rest home owner and businessman John Tooby verbally abused his tenants when they put up a sign complaining about noisy trucks. In spite of pleas from residents, heavy vehicle restrictions have not been placed on the road. This is after city council staff discovered through an assessment a significant decrease of heavy vehicles between 2017- 2018, Mr Thomas said. A Lady Wigram resident, who did not wish to be named, said while she was disappointed Lodestar Ave wasn’t included in the last review, she was pleased it was still on the table. Resident Chris Havill said it is a good thing the speed limit will be looked at but he thought it was “strange” it wasn’t included in the last review. “The only one everyone has been talking about and it is the one that was left off . . . once the hospital and the dementia unit are built you don’t want cars whizzing up and down there at a fair rate of knots,” he said. A hospital, dementia unit and rest home are planned to be built along the residential street as part of the village’s ongoing developments. Bob Rush, who lives at the village, said lowering the speed limit would help, but not solve, the issues with the road. “The original problem is basically the speed of vehicles coming down here, plus the trucks using the road as a bypass – it was never designed to have trucks down here,” he said. •Ensign St crossing, p4 •Halswell Rd safety, p4 In Brief WESTLAKE PARK A spruce up of Halswell’s Westlake Park is on the horizon. The Hurutini Student Council, which is made up of Halswell primary schools, has been working with city council staff to create a clean-up event for the park. The clean-up is planned to be held on September 11 from 10am. It will involve a litter sweep of the entire area, seed planting, educational talks on the bird and aquatic life and tips on how to reduce plastic waste. NGA PUNA WAI LEASE Sport Canterbury will manage and operate the Nga Puna Wai Sports Hub. The Halswell- Hornby-Riccarton Community Board granted a lease of 20 years to the organisation at its recent meeting. CHOPPER RIDE ON OFFER The Greater Hornby Residents’ Association is celebrating a growth in membership over the past year, as its Facebook page heads towards 3000 likes. To celebrate the milestone, the person who becomes its 3000th member will receive a helicopter flight from Christchurch Helicopters. The only condition of the prize is the winner must take aerial photos of Hornby for the association to use. Free 50+ walks Corner Gasson & Carlyle Streets, Sydenham | ph (03) 332 3378277 2843 Open Monday–Friday 9am–4:30pm & Saturday 9:30am–1:30pm. The revolution in heat pumps is here now! The revolution in heat pumps is here now! 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