Bay Harbour: January 22, 2020
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Wednesday <strong>January</strong> <strong>22</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
News<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
BAY HARBOUR<br />
PAGE 5<br />
Majority of views in favour of<br />
controversial Collett’s Corner<br />
• By Jess Gibson<br />
A RESOURCE consent<br />
application for Lyttelton’s<br />
Collett’s Corner has attracted<br />
the views of 167 groups and<br />
individuals.<br />
The bulk of submissions<br />
recieved by the city council<br />
during public consultation for<br />
the residential and commercial<br />
development planned for Oxford<br />
St were behind the project.<br />
However while 133 voiced their<br />
support, 31 opposed the application<br />
and three were neutral.<br />
Ohu Development, the group<br />
behind the project, was the first<br />
in New Zealand to run a crowdfunding<br />
campaign to help pay<br />
for a commercial development.<br />
Lyttelton resident Greer<br />
Swindard was in support, and<br />
said: “I live close to the development<br />
and really want to see this<br />
succeed as I believe it will be<br />
great for the town and Whakaraupo<br />
as a whole.”<br />
Port Hills MP Ruth Dyson<br />
was also in favour.<br />
“This is an uplifting design<br />
which will be a positive statement<br />
on entering Lyttelton<br />
from Sumner Rd and contribute<br />
greatly to the life in Lyttelton,”<br />
said Ms Dyson’s submission.<br />
Some reasons submitters<br />
FEEDBACK: Some of the reasons people were opposed to<br />
Lyttelton’s Collett’s Corner were related to the building’s<br />
height, site coverage, limited parking and designs. <br />
gave for opposing the application<br />
included the height of the<br />
complex, site coverage, limited<br />
parking and the building not<br />
fitting in with the character of<br />
Lyttelton.<br />
There were a number of comments<br />
objecting to the application<br />
relating to the alteration of<br />
initial designs, including from<br />
Lyttelton Community Association<br />
chairman Ken Maynard.<br />
Mr Maynard made a submission<br />
on behalf of its members<br />
opposing the application.<br />
“The original emphasis was<br />
totally on a community facility<br />
with some accommodation.<br />
The current one is for a block of<br />
flats with a private roof-garden,<br />
effectively creating a vertical<br />
gated community, which is the<br />
antithesis of community and not<br />
wanted in Lyttelton,” said the<br />
submission.<br />
City council head of resource<br />
consenting John Higgins said<br />
staff will now prepare a report<br />
which will be presented at a<br />
submission hearing, which is<br />
ballparked for February.<br />
“There will also be an evidence<br />
exchange of experts closer to the<br />
hearing date.”<br />
To read the submissions,<br />
you can request them through<br />
the city councils customer call<br />
centre on 0800 800 169.<br />
NICE DREAM:<br />
Ice Cream Charlie<br />
employee Lenny Lennard set<br />
up on the esplanade.<br />
Ice Cream Charlie<br />
expands into Sumner<br />
• By Louis Day<br />
AN ICONIC ice cream brand is<br />
now being sold in Sumner.<br />
The more than 100-year-old<br />
business Ice Cream Charlie was<br />
sold before Christmas and its new<br />
owners say it is in expansion mode.<br />
Ice Cream Charlie, also known<br />
as Vanilla Ices, which operates<br />
out of Victoria Square, now has<br />
stands at the weekends in Sumner<br />
as well as the Christchurch Farmers’<br />
Market at Riccarton Bush.<br />
New general manager Tim<br />
McIsaac, who is a part owner of<br />
the business with his family, said<br />
they were looking at other locations<br />
in New Zealand.<br />
“We are hoping to move it past<br />
being a Christchurch brand and<br />
we hope the rest of New Zealand<br />
will love it as much as people do<br />
here,” he said.<br />
“How that looks and how we<br />
implement that is what we are<br />
still working on.”<br />
Mr McIsaac owns and operates<br />
a finance company in Sydney. His<br />
family runs a farm in the <strong>Bay</strong> of<br />
Plenty.<br />
They bought the business<br />
before Christmas and have increased<br />
the number of employees<br />
from three to nine, which will<br />
soon increase to 11.<br />
The stands in Sumner and the<br />
farmers’ market, are effectivelty<br />
freezers on bikes, said Mr<br />
McIsaac. They have been named<br />
Agatha and Betty, with the plan<br />
to work their way through the<br />
alphabet in naming all their new<br />
stands after women’s names from<br />
yesteryear.<br />
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