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SOUTHERN VIEW Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Tuesday <strong>February</strong> <strong>18</strong> <strong>2020</strong> 3<br />
News<br />
Mystery odour causing a stink<br />
• By Matt Slaughter<br />
A MYSTERIOUS odour<br />
coming from a Cashmere<br />
retirement village was reported<br />
to Environment Canterbury 62<br />
times last year.<br />
The smell is believed to be<br />
coming from the laundry of<br />
Bupa Cashmere <strong>View</strong> Care<br />
Home and Retirement Village<br />
on Rose St.<br />
Nearby<br />
residents’<br />
have been<br />
concerned<br />
for some time<br />
about the<br />
odour and<br />
the issue was<br />
Lauren<br />
Hamilton<br />
raised at the<br />
Spreydon-<br />
Cashmere<br />
Community Board’s <strong>February</strong> 4<br />
meeting.<br />
Environment Canterbury<br />
zone delivery lead for<br />
Christchurch and West Melton<br />
Lauren Hamilton said ECan<br />
only received four reports of an<br />
odour people said was coming<br />
from the retirement village in<br />
2019.<br />
However, in the same year,<br />
ECan also trialled a web-based<br />
tool to report odours in the area<br />
and there were 58 reports.<br />
Ms Hamilton said the reporting<br />
method used in the trial<br />
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only captured where the user<br />
smelt the odour, and not what<br />
they thought the source of the<br />
odour was.<br />
Ms Hamilton said solutions<br />
to the smell are being looked<br />
into.<br />
“The retirement village<br />
management has been working<br />
with Environment Canterbury<br />
as part of a pilot project looking<br />
at new ways to manage odour.<br />
We have been working very<br />
closely with both the retirement<br />
village management and a<br />
group of Cashmere residents as<br />
part of this,” she said.<br />
Said Bupa Villages and Aged<br />
Care New Zealand head of<br />
corporate affairs Suzy Clarkson:<br />
“We continue to engage with<br />
Environment Canterbury and<br />
are adhering to their recommendations<br />
and requirements on<br />
this matter.”<br />
ECan also received five reports<br />
of an odour from retirement village<br />
residents throughout January<br />
and <strong>February</strong>. None said the<br />
odour was offensive based on<br />
MYSTERIOUS:<br />
Environment<br />
Canterbury<br />
is working to<br />
address an<br />
odour thought<br />
to be coming<br />
from Bupa<br />
Cashmere <strong>View</strong><br />
Care Home<br />
and Retirement<br />
Village.<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF<br />
SLOAN <br />
Ministry for the Environment<br />
guidelines.<br />
This is not the first time residents<br />
near the retirement village<br />
have raised concerns about the<br />
odour.<br />
Said Ms Hamilton: “In<br />
September 2014, an abatement<br />
notice was served requiring<br />
the retirement village to cease<br />
discharge of offensive and<br />
objectionable odours beyond the<br />
property boundary.’’<br />
She said there has been no<br />
breach of this notice since.<br />
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In Brief<br />
MENZSHED FINDS HOME<br />
The St Martins Menzshed plans<br />
to move into a former classroom<br />
that will be placed on the site<br />
of the St Martins Presbyterian<br />
Church. The Menzshed will<br />
bring men together to share<br />
their skills and work on<br />
practical tasks individually or<br />
as a group. A date is yet to be set<br />
for the move-in.<br />
GRANTS FOR YOUTH<br />
Isabella Zinzan-Dickie and<br />
Maria Gladys Laurie received<br />
grants of $100 towards the<br />
cost of participating in the<br />
Get2Go Finals in Great Barrier<br />
Island. A grant of $150 went to<br />
Josh Andrew Burgess towards<br />
his participation in the New<br />
Zealand Under <strong>18</strong> Touch<br />
Rugby Finals in Newcastle,<br />
Australia. The grants came<br />
from the Spreydon-Cashmere<br />
Community Board’s Youth<br />
Achievement and Development<br />
Scheme.<br />
CLUB’S STORAGE ISSUES<br />
Cashmere Technical Football<br />
Club is experiencing difficulties<br />
with storage of sports<br />
equipment at Centennial Park,<br />
Spreydon. The Spreydon-<br />
Cashmere Community Board<br />
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address the difficulties at its<br />
<strong>February</strong> 4 meeting.<br />
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