Western News: September 03, 2019

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$160m Halswell
retirement village
A NEW retirement village will
be built to match Halswell’s
rapidly expanding population.
City-based retirement village
developer and operator Qestral
Corporation is buying 12
hectares of land in Halswell, between
Milns and Sparks Rds, to
develop a new retirement village
called Banbury Park.
Banbury Park will have 60
large rest home and hospital
suites, 20 dementia suites, 40
serviced apartments and 200
independent and serviced houses
with a range of architectural
designs.
“This will be an exciting and
expansive concept, well suited
to the rural surroundings of the
area. The houses and common facilities
will be attractively designed
by award-winning architect Kerry
Mason with good spaces between
the units and no building more
than two storeys,” executive chairman
John Ryder said.
CEO Simon O’Dowd said
Halswell was rapidly expanding
and the retirement village would
fulfil a need for older residents
wanting to stay in the area or
GROWTH: A new $160 million retirment village will be built
between Milns and Sparks Rds to match Halswell’s expanding
population. ​
move there.
Between 2013 and 2018, the
Halswell ward’s population
increased by about 7000 people -
from 20,400 to 27,400.
“Increasing government funding
constraints are leading to
elderly people looking at extra
services in the private village
market,” Mr O’Dowd said.
Qestral owns Alpine View
Village in Burwood and is developing
the Burlington Village in
Redwood, with “new generation
concepts,” including electronic
healthcare monitoring and more
connectivity between residents.
Qestral is also developing
retirement villages in Nelson,
Hamilton and Northland.
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Oaklands School’s
rubbish-free goal
• By Kim Thomas
NEW PUPILS at Oaklands
School are being given rubbishfree
lunchboxes and information
about the importance of
minimising plastic waste in one
of the school’s eco-initiatives.
The ‘Eco-Warriors’ – the
school’s problem-solving group
has devised a range of initiatives
to encourage and educate
students how to be more environmentally-friendly
and, specifically,
to cut down on the plastic
waste at school.
Oaklands School deputy principal
Caroline Martin said all
students enrolling at the school
would now be given a rubbishfree
lunchbox.
The lunchboxes were paid for
by the Rotary Club of Cashmere
and subsidised by the Countdown
store at Hornby. They normally
cost more than $10 to buy.
The school has an aim to become
rubbish-free and the Eco-
Warriors plans were important in
working towards this, she said.
“We can’t expect people to
make a change unless they understand
the importance of what
they are doing and they have help
to do so,” Mrs Martin said.
She said if children were given
a rubbish-free lunchbox when
they started school, and given
information on how to keep them
free of rubbish, it would hopefully
make it easier for them and
their parents to form good habits.
The Eco-Warriors also ran
regular ‘rubbish-free lunchbox’
weeks where they record the
number of pupils with no plastic
waste in their lunchboxes. If the
percentage of students is more
than the last rubbish-free week’s
tally, all pupils get the opportunity
to wear mufti.
Mrs Martin said to be rubbishfree
the lunchboxes need to
contain only packaging that is
either reusable or recyclable, such
as beeswax wraps and reusable
plastic containers.
The last time the school had a
rubbish-free lunchbox week, in
term 2, more than 40 per cent of
the school left their plastic waste
at home.
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