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Wednesday <strong>August</strong> <strong>28</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
BAY HARBOUR<br />
PAGE 5<br />
Crime cameras meeting<br />
• By Jess Gibson<br />
A MEETING will be held with<br />
police and city council staff on<br />
Tuesday to clarify issues over<br />
Sumner’s crime prevention<br />
cameras.<br />
There has been ongoing<br />
confusion over information<br />
from police as to who can<br />
fund the $20,000 cameras, as<br />
community-funded equipment<br />
is not an option.<br />
City council head of<br />
community support,<br />
governance and partnerships<br />
John Filsell said the meeting<br />
will address the “resourcing,<br />
provision and operation of<br />
crime prevention cameras.”<br />
Following this, a briefing with<br />
the Linwood-Central-Heathcote<br />
Community Board will be arranged<br />
to provide it with the<br />
information needed to inform<br />
decision-making going forward.<br />
Security company October<br />
Protection chief executive and<br />
Sumner resident Matt Wood<br />
was ready to supply Safer Sumner<br />
with security cameras in<br />
2018 after they raised $4000.<br />
However, he had to approach<br />
the community board for funding<br />
after the cost of the cameras<br />
skyrocketed to $20,000 when<br />
police requested they be aligned<br />
with its system.<br />
However, a report requesting<br />
CAMERAS:<br />
Darrell<br />
Latham<br />
hopes for<br />
a positive<br />
outcome.<br />
funding for the cameras was<br />
removed from the community<br />
board agenda in July at the last<br />
minute by city council staff.<br />
•HAVE YOUR SAY: What<br />
do you think about the<br />
process to get crime<br />
prevention cameras in<br />
Sumner? Email your views<br />
to jess.gibson@starmedia.<br />
kiwi<br />
Board members were meant<br />
to decide on a recommendation<br />
to decline all funding towards<br />
cameras which would help to<br />
prevent crime in Sumner. The<br />
amount requested by Safer<br />
Sumner was $16,187.<br />
However, the application was<br />
withdrawn due to confusion<br />
over how Safer Sumner was expected<br />
to meet the discretionary<br />
response fund criteria.<br />
Said community board member<br />
Darrell Latham, who has<br />
been pushing for the cameras:<br />
“Safer Sumner and the community<br />
have been proactive in<br />
wanting to discourage crime<br />
and have worked hard at raising<br />
funds towards the installation<br />
of the crime cameras. However,<br />
it has been very difficult<br />
for them to progress matters<br />
through no fault of their own.<br />
“I was disappointed that<br />
the item was pulled from the<br />
agenda at an earlier meeting.<br />
There has been too much<br />
confusion over this matter<br />
and it is to be hoped that<br />
proposed meetings between<br />
city council staff and the police<br />
will result in a positive outcome<br />
with a recommendation to the<br />
board.’’<br />
Akaroa apartment block takes<br />
action over bus parking<br />
• By Jess Gibson<br />
COMPLAINTS about noisy<br />
buses outside an Akaroa<br />
apartment block continue to fall<br />
on deaf ears.<br />
The Bruce Waterfront<br />
Apartments body<br />
corporate initially<br />
threatened legal action<br />
against the city council<br />
over the number of<br />
buses gathering outside<br />
the apartments on Beach<br />
Rd during the cruise<br />
ship season. But the city<br />
council said at the time<br />
it had no concerns over<br />
the placement of the<br />
buses.<br />
Now a letter has been sent<br />
to the city council and Banks<br />
Peninsula Community Board<br />
by the body corporate’s lawyer<br />
Prudence Steven.<br />
The letter outlines issues with<br />
the buses, including noise, visual<br />
impact and diesel fumes, and<br />
Prudence<br />
Steven<br />
ACTION: A lawyer for<br />
the Bruce Waterfront<br />
Apartments body<br />
corporate has sent<br />
the city council a<br />
letter about the<br />
number of buses<br />
which park outside<br />
the complex during<br />
cruise ship season.<br />
requests information on the<br />
legality of parking them there<br />
without consultation with the<br />
affected residents.<br />
It also requests body corporate<br />
representatives be given the<br />
opportunity to consult with<br />
the city council or<br />
community board<br />
members over parking<br />
activities before the<br />
commencement of the<br />
cruise ship season.<br />
Ms Steven said she is<br />
now waiting to hear back<br />
from the city council.<br />
It is not the first run-in<br />
the body corporate has<br />
had with the city council.<br />
It also threatened to<br />
take legal action after the city<br />
council failed to gain resource<br />
consent for the placement of<br />
portacom toilets on Britomart<br />
Reserve near the apartments.<br />
However, the toilets were<br />
removed after the cruise ship<br />
season ended.<br />
(2-3 day service. Until 6th September)<br />
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