Western News: September 10, 2020

4 Thursday September 10 2020
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Disabled benefit from bowling club facelift
A SHOT at hosting the world
championships for disabled
bowling presented both an
opportunity and a dilemma to
the Burnside Bowling Club.
The largest club in the South
Island was no stranger to hosting
prominent events – but they
needed to upgrade their toilet facilities
to cater for more disabled
players.
Club president Brenda Turner
said her club jumped at the
chance to host the 2020 Internation
Bowls for the Disabled
World Bowls Championships but
lacked the funding to upgrade
the club’s facilities.
“The previous toilets were built
in 1975, so a facelift was well
overdue,” she said.
“When we found out we had
to upgrade the toilet area, we
A LANDSCAPED bund has been
pitched as part of a plan to stop
fly-tipping and boy racers blighting
the fringe of Hornby.
The shaped and planted bund
would be put across Roberts Rd,
about 50m to the west of the residential
area but before the Fulton
Hogan quarry.
The plan would ultimately
approached the council for a
grant, and Lisa Gregory from the
Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood
Community Board governance
team guided us through to the
correct fund.”
The club received $52,000 from
the city council’s Capital Endowment
Fund towards building
their new accessible toilets.
While the championships are
now on hold due to the Covid-19
pandemic, Turner hoped the
club, which began in 1963 and
currently has around 240 members,
will attract more wheelchair
users.
“It’s a great outdoor sport, you
meet lots of great people so it’s a
good social activity. You can be
as competitive as you want and
play as much you want – or just
come along for a chat,” she said.
expand to include a dog walking
facility to the west of the bund, in
the area between the bund and
the quarry.
The Greater Hornby Residents
Association told the Halswell-
Hornby-Riccarton Community
Board the work would ultimately
save public money.
Research and submissions officer
Ross Houliston said it would
stop the continual fly-tipping of
rubbish in the area and “ongoing
boy racer traffic.”
There had been innumerable
fires among trees beside the road,
perhaps linked to people illegally
burning dumped rubbish.
The land would remain designated
as a road reserve, so it
could be re-opened should the
surrounding land be opened for
residential development.
The association has already
pitched the idea to city council
staff, who told them it “sounded
like quite a feasible idea”, Houliston
told the board.
In an interview, Houliston said
the board referred the plan to
UPGRADE:
Burnside
Bowling Club
member
and former
New Zealand
representative
Snow Reardon
uses the newlyrefurbished
toilet facilities
which now
caters for
disabled players. ​
Bund idea to beat boy racers, fly-tippers
council staff – and he was sure it
was a workable option.
Closing the road from the city
end would continue to allow Fulton
Hogan a direct line between
its quarry and its Pound Rd site.
“Really, most of the traffic
on the road at the moment is
between the quarries. This would
still let that happen.”
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