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THURSDAY, JANUARY <strong>28</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
Connecting Your Local Community<br />
starnews.co.nz<br />
New cycle<br />
route should<br />
improve safety<br />
Page 3 Page 6<br />
Muscles put to<br />
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Plans released for new<br />
St Albans housing complex<br />
A NEW housing complex<br />
is planned for St Albans,<br />
replacing 20 old and cold<br />
units that were demolished to<br />
make way for the development<br />
in December.<br />
The Ōtautahi Community<br />
Housing Trust plans to build<br />
33 modern, green buildingrated<br />
homes on Coles Pl<br />
as part of its continued<br />
drive to improve the city’s<br />
community housing stock.<br />
ŌCHT has applied to the city<br />
council for resource consent,<br />
and an application for building<br />
consent will follow.<br />
Neighbours will be kept<br />
up-to-date with progress as the<br />
proposal develops, the trust<br />
says.<br />
All tenants from the old<br />
units were rehoused in<br />
other ŌCHT communities in<br />
November, well before work<br />
to prepare the site for the construction<br />
of the new one, two,<br />
three and four-bedroom units<br />
began.<br />
Some of the relocated tenants<br />
lived in their community for<br />
many years. Where possible,<br />
long-term tenants may have<br />
the option of returning to<br />
Coles Pl.<br />
• Turn to page 4<br />
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Wā Pēpi: Babytimes<br />
Thursday, 10.30-11am<br />
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Encourage learning through<br />
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programme including music, movement,<br />
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Knit ‘n’ Yarn<br />
Friday, 10am-noon, at Papanui,<br />
Tuesday, 1-3pm, at Bishopdale,<br />
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Saturday, 10am-noon, at Fendalton,<br />
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New cycle route should improve safety<br />
A MAJOR new cycleway that<br />
will provide a safe cycling route<br />
for people travelling through<br />
Papanui, Bishopdale, Harewood<br />
and the airport area will also<br />
bring benefits for other road<br />
users, the city council says.<br />
Design plans for the Wheels to<br />
Wings – Papanui ki Waiwhetū<br />
cycleway, which will form part<br />
of the network of 13 major cycleways<br />
criss-crossing Christchurch<br />
have been released this<br />
week. Included in the cycleway<br />
plans are a number of intersection<br />
upgrades and roading layout<br />
changes that should improve<br />
safety for everyone, said city<br />
council head of transport Richard<br />
Osborne.<br />
“On Harewood Rd, for example,<br />
we are proposing to reduce<br />
the four-lane section of the road<br />
to two lanes to make space for<br />
the cycleway while retaining onstreet<br />
parking. This will encourage<br />
lower speeds and make the<br />
road safer for turning drivers and<br />
pedestrians to cross,” he said.<br />
“We will be installing traffic<br />
lights at the Harewood, Gardiners<br />
and Breens intersection and<br />
partially signalising the Bishopdale<br />
roundabout. Traffic lights<br />
are planned for the Harewood<br />
Rd and Woolridge Rd intersection,<br />
and the Greers Rd and<br />
BENEFITS: The Wheels to Wings – Papanui ki Waiwhetū<br />
cycleway also includes upgrades to roading layout which<br />
will improve safety.<br />
Harewood Rd intersection will<br />
also be upgraded,’’ Osborne said.<br />
Other proposed roading layout<br />
changes include:<br />
• Turning Wilmot St at<br />
Harewood Rd into a cul-de-sac.<br />
• Making Sails St exit only<br />
onto Harewood Rd.<br />
• Making Chapel St entry only<br />
from Harewood Rd.<br />
• Installing a new signalised<br />
crossing outside Harewood Primary<br />
School and extending the<br />
school speed zone.<br />
“We have tried to minimise<br />
the removal of on-street parking,<br />
however, the competing<br />
demands for road space means<br />
that some on-street parking will<br />
be removed along the route,’’<br />
Osborne said.<br />
“In those areas where there<br />
is high parking demand we are<br />
proposing to put in time-restricted<br />
parking to help ensure that<br />
convenient parking is available<br />
About the Wheels to Wings cycleway<br />
It will provide a<br />
connection for local<br />
cycling trips in the<br />
Harewood, Bishopdale,<br />
and Papanui suburbs<br />
to destinations<br />
including schools,<br />
shops, businesses and<br />
recreational facilities.<br />
It will also connect to<br />
cycling facilities further<br />
afield.<br />
At its western end,<br />
the cycleway will<br />
connect with the<br />
Johns Rd cycle and<br />
pedestrian underpass,<br />
for people.’’<br />
Twenty-one trees will also<br />
need to be removed along the<br />
route of the cycleway, but the<br />
city council is proposing to plant<br />
a total of 56 new trees. It is also<br />
proposing to upgrade the street<br />
lighting along the route to make<br />
the cycleway safer and more<br />
comfortable to user after dark.<br />
“Our monitoring of cycling<br />
numbers across the city show<br />
that more people are opting to<br />
travel by bike so we are keen<br />
to get the Wheels to Wings<br />
linking through to<br />
the commercial areas<br />
surrounding the<br />
airport, and to McLeans<br />
Island Rd via the Johns<br />
Rd shared path. This<br />
will be a connection<br />
route for the roughly<br />
7000 people who work<br />
in the airport area.<br />
At its eastern end,<br />
Wheels to Wings<br />
connects directly to<br />
the Northern Line<br />
cycleway and the<br />
planned Nor’West Arc<br />
cycleway.<br />
cycleway route finalised and<br />
construction underway so that<br />
we extend our cycleway network<br />
and link up more parts of the<br />
city,’’ Osborne said.<br />
Public feedback is currently<br />
being sought on the plans for<br />
the Wheels to Wings cycleway.<br />
People can share their views<br />
between now and February 22.<br />
The city council will consider<br />
the submissions and finalise<br />
the route later this year, ahead<br />
of construction starting in the<br />
middle of the year.<br />
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1000 applicants waiting for housing in city<br />
• From page 1<br />
ŌCHT chief executive Cate<br />
Kearney said the trust aims to<br />
reduce homelessness in Christchurch<br />
with new homes that blend<br />
in with other modern, developments.<br />
“We’d really<br />
hope that<br />
communities<br />
understand<br />
that social and<br />
community<br />
housing is<br />
Cate Kearney<br />
needed more<br />
now than<br />
ever, and in all<br />
suburbs, especially as we see the<br />
impact of the housing shortage,<br />
high rentals and the lingering effects<br />
of the Covid-19 response on<br />
the number of people in need of a<br />
home,” she said.<br />
The Ministry of Social Development’s<br />
Social Housing Register<br />
routinely has more than 1000<br />
applicants waiting for housing in<br />
the Christchurch city area.<br />
ŌCHT commercial and development<br />
manager Ed Leeson said<br />
the new, two-storey units will be<br />
a home for a range of tenants,<br />
from single people to families.<br />
They will be designed to<br />
achieve the New Zealand Green<br />
Building Council’s Homestar 6<br />
rating, at a standard that is at or<br />
above those set in New Zealand<br />
building code.<br />
Modern materials, passive solar<br />
design and high-spec insulation<br />
will help make them homes that<br />
are environmentally sound and<br />
MODERN: The new housing<br />
complex will incorporate<br />
high-spec insulation<br />
that will make the units<br />
environmentally sound.<br />
Below – The former complex<br />
in Coles Pl that has now<br />
been demolished.<br />
cheaper to run, Leeson said.<br />
Outside the homes, the surrounding<br />
area includes landscaped<br />
communal green areas<br />
and gardens, roading and parking<br />
are designed for safety and<br />
people-friendly spaces.<br />
“This is going to be a<br />
lovely site with very attractive<br />
landscaping, green spaces, communal<br />
areas and fruit trees,” said<br />
Leeson.<br />
“It used to be home to old<br />
units that were past their usedby<br />
date. We plan to deliver new<br />
homes that enhance the best use<br />
of our land and wider community.”<br />
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Brougham St development is<br />
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Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>28</strong> <strong>2021</strong> 5<br />
Traffic mitigation a community board priority<br />
• By Bea Gooding<br />
DRAFTING THE long term<br />
plan and advocating for the<br />
community on traffic mitigation<br />
in congested areas will be<br />
prioritised by the Papanui-Innes<br />
Community Board in the next<br />
few months.<br />
Ahead of its first meeting of<br />
the year on Friday, the board<br />
identified a number of priorities<br />
it wanted to initially address.<br />
Board<br />
chairwoman<br />
Emma Norrish<br />
was feeling<br />
positive for<br />
the year to<br />
come in spite<br />
Emma<br />
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of the major<br />
disruptions<br />
caused by<br />
the Covid-19<br />
pandemic.<br />
“I’m feeling really positive,<br />
we had a tough time last year<br />
but people are ready to move<br />
forward and get things done.<br />
Our board is too,” she said.<br />
On the topic of getting things<br />
done, the board will be working<br />
to complete its draft long term<br />
plan, which is due next month.<br />
The following month will see<br />
the plan put through public<br />
consultation. Once finalised,<br />
it will determine how the city<br />
PRIORITY: Mitigating traffic on Cranford St is on top of the list for the community board.<br />
council should allocate budgets<br />
for the area.<br />
Another priority was the<br />
mitigation of safety and<br />
visibility issues outside<br />
Northlink shopping centre, and<br />
congestion brought about by<br />
the new Christchurch Northern<br />
Corridor.<br />
“One of the big ones is the<br />
traffic issues along Langdons Rd<br />
and looking at how we can deal<br />
with those issues, and mitigating<br />
traffic on Cranford St from the<br />
new motorway,” said Norrish.<br />
Increased traffic and unsafe<br />
driver behaviour in both of<br />
these areas posed safety risks<br />
for residents accessing their<br />
properties and for pedestrians<br />
walking nearby.<br />
Beginning next month, a peak<br />
hour bus lane is being trialled for<br />
three months on Cranford St.<br />
Residents wanted a bus lane<br />
to encourage people to get out<br />
of their cars, and the trial will<br />
determine a need for it as a<br />
means to manage the increased<br />
traffic.<br />
They feared the new motorway<br />
put “cars over the community,”<br />
facilitating more vehicles into<br />
their quiet neighbourhoods, and<br />
put public transport options on<br />
the backburner.<br />
Last week, Nor’West <strong>News</strong><br />
revealed what plans the<br />
Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood<br />
Community Board had up its<br />
sleeve for the first half of the<br />
year.<br />
Chairman David Cartwright<br />
said this included installing<br />
bigger rubbish bins at high<br />
usage parks, addressing derelict<br />
buildings and improving<br />
pedestrian safety.<br />
Norrish was looking forward<br />
to working with the community<br />
this year towards the activation<br />
of 10 Shirley Rd.<br />
“We as a board have ringfenced<br />
$15,000 from the<br />
Discretionary Response Fund for<br />
activation of 10 Shirley Road,”<br />
she said.<br />
“We’re looking to partner with<br />
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Children at the Kelly Sports holiday<br />
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CHANGE IS AS GOOD<br />
AS A HOLIDAY.<br />
2020 was a year like no other for many businesses, and for the travel<br />
industry in particular. Despite the challenges presented by COVID,<br />
House of Travel Northlink (previously Northlands) owner operator,<br />
Stacey Mullinger, says she is looking to the future and excited about<br />
what it holds for her business, her team and her customers.<br />
Q. House of Travel Northlands has moved – where to and why?<br />
A. We’ve been in our current location, at Northlands Mall, for more than 25 years,<br />
and in that time, our neighbourhood has changed significantly. The new Northlink<br />
development is an exciting shopping precinct and with our lease at Northlands<br />
Mall being up we decided it was time to make the move. We’re very excited about<br />
the opportunities this new location offers us.<br />
Q. What do you see as the benefits of your new location?<br />
A. Our new location at Northlink (148 Langdons Road, Papanui) means we are easy to find – just head for Kmart and you can’t miss us! This makes it simple for customers<br />
to pop in and see us when they’re out and about – whether it’s just for a quick chat or for a more thorough consultation. There is parking at the door!<br />
Q. How has COVID affected the way you operate as a business?<br />
A. I think we can all agree that COVID has messed up 2020 and <strong>2021</strong> is very unknown. We’ve had more than 4,000 holidays to unravel since March 2020, and in general,<br />
the process of undoing is a lot more complicated than that of planning and booking the holidays in the first place. What a lot of people don’t realise is that it’s an ongoing<br />
process – each month that borders remain closed, there are more holidays to cancel or postpone. We’re also available for anyone who needs help using airline credits that<br />
have been received as a result of cancelled bookings. It doesn’t matter if they’re not an existing House of Travel customer – we’re happy to help.<br />
Q. What’s happening in the world of travel at the moment?<br />
A. While we wait for boarders and bubbles to open the great opportunity for New Zealanders at the moment is to get out and see more of our own beautiful country and<br />
support local businesses.<br />
Q. What about Domestic travel?<br />
A. Domestic travel is definitely a key part of our business at the moment. Customers have realised that we can connect them with holiday experiences and packages they<br />
may not otherwise be able to access. Booking their holiday with us also means they have our 24/7 support, so if something goes wrong or we enter another lockdown<br />
they can rely on us to sort everything on their behalf. Many suppliers have introduced ‘book with confidence’ policies, and we are masters at ensuring our customers are<br />
protected – both financially and personally.<br />
Q. What does the future look like for House of Travel Northlink?<br />
A. With our new name, new location but the same team of highly experienced travel consultants we are feeling positive about the future. We’re still excited to continue<br />
talking travel, and in our new location we’re looking forward to finding out whether a change really is as good as a holiday!<br />
For now, we are open Monday to Friday each week and we’re looking forward to showing off our new location to our customers - whether they’re arranging an amazing<br />
domestic holiday, starting to plan an epic overseas adventure for after the borders have reopened, or just popping in to say hello.<br />
OUR TEAM<br />
Stacey Mullinger<br />
Owner Operator<br />
Contact: staceym@hot.co.nz<br />
Brigid Murphy<br />
Travel Consultant<br />
Contact: brigidm@hot.co.nz<br />
Vicky Baker<br />
Domestic Consultant<br />
Contact: vickyb@hot.co.nz<br />
Brigitta Moore<br />
Travel Consultant<br />
Contact: brigittam@hot.co.nz<br />
Sarah Bright<br />
Travel Consultant<br />
Contact: sbright@hot.co.nz<br />
Stacey has been the owner<br />
operator of House of Travel<br />
Northlink for 7 years, with 20+<br />
years in the business she has<br />
experienced many disasters in the<br />
travel industry which steads her<br />
well to lead this team through the<br />
COVID Pandemic.<br />
Brigid is the longest standing<br />
member of the team, after 22 years<br />
she is well known and respected<br />
by her clients. Brigid specialises<br />
in off the beaten track experiences<br />
– over the last few years she<br />
has explored many parts of New<br />
Zealand but loved her recent<br />
trip to the North Island where her<br />
highlights were the WaioTapu<br />
Thermal Reserve in Rotorua and<br />
watching the kayakers at NZ’s<br />
highest waterfall - Wairere Falls.<br />
Vicky Baker is our domestic<br />
queen, Vicky has been a travel<br />
consultant and sales support<br />
with House of Travel for the<br />
past 14 years. With changes in<br />
the business Vicky is embracing<br />
her new role as a Domestic<br />
Consultant. She loved her<br />
recent trip to the Coromandel<br />
with her family.<br />
Brigitta is celebrating her 20th<br />
year at House of Travel this week.<br />
During her time at HOT Brigitta has<br />
had many achievements, including<br />
TOP House of Travel consultant and<br />
being named in the elite House<br />
of Travel Legends group. Brigitta<br />
loves travelling and has made the<br />
most of the opportunity to see<br />
our own country with her husband<br />
Mike. Their recent trip took them<br />
to the beautiful Bay of Islands, her<br />
favourite spot was Russell with its<br />
history and stunning scenery.<br />
Sarah loves sharing her own travel<br />
experiences with her clients. With<br />
3 children and husband in tow<br />
Sarah has seen many parts of New<br />
Zealand in the last few months and<br />
has just returned from a trip to the<br />
stunning Golden Bay area. Sarah<br />
has been part of the team for 7<br />
years and has been with House<br />
of Travel for 20 years, she is well<br />
known for her bright and bubbly<br />
positive attitude.<br />
BETTER TOGETHER<br />
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KIWIBANK LOCAL HERO AWARDS<br />
Work with music therapy earns Wade medal<br />
• By Ella Somers<br />
KIMBERLEY WADE, founder<br />
and director of Southern Music<br />
Therapy, thought it was a hoax<br />
when she found out she had<br />
been made a Kiwibank Local<br />
Hero medallist for her work as<br />
a registered neurologic music<br />
therapist.<br />
However, she said it was “really<br />
lovely to be valued by someone<br />
other than my husband and my<br />
mum. Someone investigated<br />
and appreciated what I’ve done<br />
and thought it was cool, so that’s<br />
pretty special.”<br />
Wade grew up in Hawkes<br />
Bay in a musical family and<br />
studied psychology and classical<br />
singing at Victoria University.<br />
She considered becoming a<br />
clinical psychologist but<br />
“wanted to add the music in<br />
there somewhere.”<br />
After meeting a music therapist<br />
and learning about music therapy,<br />
Wade realised it was a career she<br />
wanted to pursue. She auditioned<br />
and got into Victoria University’s<br />
master of music therapy<br />
programme and, after graduating,<br />
moved to Christchurch.<br />
Wade describes musical therapy<br />
as a tool to help with a nonmusical<br />
goal, like finger dexterity<br />
or helping with emotional<br />
expression.<br />
“We’re also working on<br />
communication, physical<br />
VALUED: Providing musical therapy for people with<br />
disabilities has earned Kimberley Wade a Kiwibank Local<br />
Hero medal for <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
rehabilitation, cognitive,<br />
emotional and social goals,” she<br />
said.<br />
Music therapy is in “quite<br />
a medical field,” Wade said,<br />
something she wishes people<br />
were more aware of.<br />
“As musical therapists, we’re<br />
providing opportunities and we<br />
think outside the box as to how<br />
music can be accessible to people<br />
with disabilities.<br />
“I love music because<br />
it’s a non-verbal way of<br />
communicating with people. It<br />
bypasses everything and gets right<br />
into your soul and provides this<br />
universal connection to people.”<br />
Wade has more than14 years<br />
experience as a neurologic<br />
music therapist and works<br />
primarily with people who have<br />
rehabilitation and neurological<br />
conditions.<br />
Said Wade: “I founded<br />
Southern Music Therapy<br />
because I liked working with<br />
people with neurological<br />
conditions. I wanted to work with<br />
stroke clients which was quite<br />
unheard of in New Zealand, not<br />
just Christchurch.”<br />
Southern Music Therapy<br />
provides a range of therapy<br />
services for people with<br />
disabilities from group work<br />
to individual sessions and<br />
now works within all the<br />
big neurological facilities in<br />
Christchurch such as Equitas, St<br />
John of God, Laura Fergusson<br />
and Burwood Hospital.<br />
As well as setting up the<br />
organisation, Wade co-founded<br />
the Cantabrainer Choir Trust<br />
with Therapy Professionals in<br />
February 2012 which is now run<br />
by the trust.<br />
The choir is for people with<br />
neurological conditions. Wade<br />
said she is really proud of what it’s<br />
done for so many people.<br />
“There was a real gap for people<br />
with neurological conditions<br />
who couldn’t afford private music<br />
therapy.<br />
“It’s a fabulous community<br />
space for people to come together<br />
and be able to do rehabilitation<br />
without it being super expensive.”<br />
A lot of Wade’s clients,<br />
especially her stroke clients, are<br />
not covered by ACC which means<br />
they have to pay privately for<br />
music therapy.<br />
“There’s never enough funding<br />
in the neurologic area and there’s<br />
never enough understanding of<br />
what musical therapy can offer,”<br />
Wade said.<br />
“I do have clients who sacrifice<br />
parts of their lifestyle in order to<br />
pay for the therapy because it’s so<br />
highly valued in their world.”<br />
It’s only after years of education<br />
and advocacy of music therapy<br />
that Wade feels more people are<br />
aware that music therapy is out<br />
there. Ideally, she wants people<br />
to know that music therapy is an<br />
option just like speech therapy or<br />
physiotherapy and to make sure<br />
it’s available to people if they need<br />
it.<br />
“In the last couple of years<br />
music therapy is becoming more<br />
recognised and more valued,” she<br />
said.<br />
“It’s definitely growing and<br />
keeping it as a quality service is<br />
very important.”<br />
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KIWIBANK LOCAL HERO AWARDS<br />
The Kiwibank Local Hero of the Year Award recognises 100 individuals across the country who strive to<br />
make their communities a better place through hard work and dedication. Included in the top 100 local<br />
hero medallists for 2020 were 12 Cantabrians. We profile those who live in Christchurch.<br />
• Abdul Aziz Wahabzadah<br />
Abdul Aziz Wahabzadah has<br />
been hailed as a hero by law<br />
enforcement, politicians and the<br />
public for his actions on March<br />
15, 2019, when he risked his<br />
life to chase down the terrorist<br />
behind the Christchurch<br />
mosque attacks. Wahabzadah<br />
was worshipping at Linwood<br />
Mosque when the killer entered<br />
the mosque and opened fire. In<br />
spite of the clear risk to his own<br />
life, he chased the offender from<br />
the room, while grabbing an<br />
Abdul Aziz Wahabzadah<br />
Eftpos machine to hurl at him.<br />
Wahabzadah’s quick thinking<br />
and bravery saved many lives<br />
and helped law enforcement to<br />
quickly identify the killer’s car<br />
and capture him.<br />
• Alice Andersen<br />
As executive director of<br />
Qtopia, Alice Andersen’s role<br />
is to celebrate, educate and<br />
advocate for New Zealand’s<br />
rainbow youth and their<br />
whānau. In the year alone she<br />
has designed, developed and<br />
Alice Andersen<br />
delivered Qtopia’s education<br />
programme to more than<br />
2000 people in Aotearoa and<br />
Australia and helped establish<br />
international best practice for<br />
how schools can support gender<br />
diverse students with her mahi<br />
alongside Christ’s College, as<br />
they supported their first out<br />
transgender student.<br />
• Erica Austin<br />
Erica Austin was nearing<br />
the end of her Masters of<br />
Architecture degree at the<br />
University of Auckland when<br />
the Christchurch earthquakes<br />
happened. She finished her<br />
degree and moved south,<br />
excited to participate in the<br />
city’s rebuild. She is interested<br />
in how cities can build ‘social<br />
architecture’ to ensure the<br />
physical environment is vibrant,<br />
inclusive, and unites and engages<br />
its inhabitants. Since arriving,<br />
Austin has thrown herself<br />
into a wide range of creative,<br />
community and entrepreneurial<br />
projects, and considers herself<br />
a “Christchurch ambassador.”<br />
She has been an invaluable<br />
member of the teams at FESTA<br />
(Festival Of Transitional<br />
Architecture), the Ministry<br />
of Awesome, Gapfiller, TEDx<br />
Christchurch, PechaKucha,<br />
the Christchurch Arts Festival,<br />
WORD Christchurch, and LINC<br />
(Leadership in Communities).<br />
• Nigel Hampton<br />
As a criminal lawyer with<br />
more than five decades of<br />
experience, Nigel Hampton has<br />
been involved with many highprofile<br />
cases, including the Pike<br />
River Royal Commission and the<br />
collapse of the CTV building.<br />
He has been chair of the New<br />
Zealand Law Practitioners<br />
Disciplinary Tribunal, was the<br />
first Disciplinary Commissioner<br />
of Counsel at the International<br />
Criminal Court at the Hague,<br />
and Chief Justice of the Kingdom<br />
of Tonga. He is a judicial officer<br />
for World Rugby and New<br />
Zealand Rugby, on the boards<br />
of charitable bodies, and is New<br />
Zealand patron of the Howard<br />
League for penal reform. He also<br />
helped establish the Criminal<br />
Cases Review Commission<br />
board, to redefine the way<br />
possible miscarriages of justice<br />
are identified.<br />
Nigel Hampton<br />
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• Kerryn Scott<br />
Youthline provides free phone<br />
counselling to thousands of<br />
young New Zealanders each year,<br />
and Kerryn Scott is one of the<br />
dedicated staff which allows this<br />
work to happen. Scott works in<br />
triage, ensuring the vulnerable<br />
youth that calls Youthline are<br />
taken care of and supporting the<br />
volunteers that answer the calls.<br />
In addition to her paid role, Scott<br />
spends many hours doing voluntary<br />
shifts, supporting the triage<br />
team at high-volume times, and<br />
is a volunteer mentor, training<br />
new Youthline volunteers. Scott<br />
constantly monitors the national<br />
roster for gaps, and regularly<br />
takes up extra shifts to ensure<br />
that young New Zealanders are<br />
able to access support when they<br />
most need it.<br />
• Mataio Brown<br />
Matt Brown’s chain of<br />
Christchurch barbershops, My<br />
Father’s Barber, are places for<br />
men to get their hair cut or beard<br />
trimmed, but also safe spaces for<br />
men to connect and unload without<br />
judgement and regularly have<br />
workshops with guest speakers,<br />
community and support, an<br />
antidote to toxic masculinity.<br />
Brown regularly offers haircuts<br />
at the Christchurch City Mission,<br />
is a mentor at Christchurch<br />
Men’s Prison, and partners with<br />
domestic-violence charities. In<br />
2018 Brown partnered with the<br />
Ministry of Social Development<br />
for the ‘It’s not OK campaign’ to<br />
increase awareness about the role<br />
of barbers in creating safe spaces<br />
for men, and recently he held a<br />
seminar at Koukourārata marae<br />
with a kaupapa of talking about<br />
men’s mental health, suicide, and<br />
family violence.<br />
Mataio Brown<br />
• Sabidah Gillespie<br />
Sabidah Gillespie is a longserving<br />
volunteer member of<br />
Shakti Ethnic Women’s Support<br />
Group in Christchurch which<br />
endeavours to raise awareness<br />
of family violence and supports<br />
women out of dangerous<br />
situations and into safety and<br />
self-reliance. After the March 15<br />
mosque attacks, Gillespie worked<br />
tirelessly with Shakti and other<br />
agencies supporting women,<br />
children and whānau who lost<br />
loved ones. She visited them,<br />
supplied them with food parcels,<br />
drove them to appointments, and<br />
connected them to agencies for<br />
necessary support. Gillespie is<br />
also a prominent member of the<br />
Canterbury Malaysian Society,<br />
an active member of Rotary Club<br />
and Multicultural Society, and<br />
is a very well-respected member<br />
of the Islamic community in<br />
Christchurch.<br />
Vicki-Anne Parker<br />
• Vicki-Anne Parker<br />
After Vicki-Anne Parker lost<br />
her house in the Christchurch<br />
earthquake, she remembers being<br />
touched by a hand-knitted redand-black<br />
scarf sent to her by a<br />
stranger living in Auckland. The<br />
effect of that small gift during<br />
a hard time was the motivation<br />
behind Parker’s charity, NZ<br />
Gifts of Love and Strength,<br />
which sources donations and<br />
provides care packages to<br />
victims of severe trauma. The<br />
organisation was established<br />
after the Christchurch mosque<br />
shootings in 2019 when Parker<br />
provided care packages and<br />
three meals a day to 31 families<br />
affected by the shootings. Since<br />
then Parker has supported New<br />
Brighton Primary pupils who lost<br />
their classrooms in a fire and a<br />
Christchurch family who suffered<br />
a fatal house fire.<br />
Online store next step for<br />
specialist footwear shop<br />
Just over a year since the doors first opened, The<br />
Shoe Room in Upper Riccarton is about to launch a<br />
new service for customers – an online store.<br />
Owned by podiatrist Charlotte Russell, who<br />
also owns and operates the podiatry clinic Feet<br />
First, The Shoe Room was part of the clinic before<br />
increasing demand for fashionable, functional<br />
footwear prompted her to open the specialist shop<br />
in December 2019.<br />
“The online store is the next ‘big thing’ for us,<br />
and it means that a much wider customer base<br />
will have access to our extensive range,” Charlotte<br />
says.<br />
Customers logging on to the online store will find<br />
photographs of the shoes taken from every angle<br />
as well as information on the designs and materials<br />
used to make them. A size guide on the website<br />
shows how to measure feet, which Charlotte<br />
encourages people to use so they can be sure of<br />
ordering the right size.<br />
The Shoe Room stocks a number of leading<br />
international footwear brands, and the range has<br />
recently been extended with the addition of the<br />
popular Ziera brand. Also, in addition to Propét, the<br />
store now stocks the Dr Comfort range of medical<br />
footwear.<br />
While The Shoe Room’s main focus is on<br />
women’s footwear, the men’s range is also being<br />
expanded, Charlotte says.<br />
Business has grown steadily over the last 12<br />
months, both through word of mouth and with<br />
customers returning to purchase second and third<br />
pairs of shoes, which Charlotte says is largely due<br />
to the service her staff provides.<br />
“That’s our point of difference. Shop manager<br />
Maxine and shop assistant Carol are very friendly<br />
and welcoming and are able to build a rapport with<br />
customers by providing that all-important personal<br />
service and making sure customers get shoes that<br />
fit correctly, are comfortable and look nice on their<br />
feet.”<br />
The Shoe Room’s online store will go live in<br />
February, a fitting complement to the physical<br />
store, which is located at Unit 3, 355 Riccarton<br />
Road, opposite the Lone Star.<br />
Opening hours are Monday 10am-5.30pm,<br />
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday 9.30am-5.30pm,<br />
Thursday 9.30am-5.30pm with late night Tuesday<br />
by appointment only, Saturday 10am-4pm.<br />
However, the online store will be open 24/7.<br />
The Shoe Room looks forward to meeting all of<br />
your footwear requirements.<br />
Carol, left, and Maxine provide the all-important<br />
personal service for The Shoe Room customers<br />
The Shoe Room is located at Unit 3, 355 Riccarton Road, opposite the Lone Star.<br />
Opening hours are Monday 10am-5.30pm, Tuesday to Friday 9.30am-5.30pm,<br />
Saturday 10am-4pm, Tuesday late night by arrangement. Off street parking available.<br />
P. (03) 929 0927 E. info@theshoeroom.co.nz www.theshoeroom.co.nz<br />
Fashionable • Functional • Footwear
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Struggling to find something to buy?<br />
If you want an opportunity to knock, it’s time to<br />
build a door…<br />
I appreciate right now trying to buy property<br />
here in Christchurch is challenging. Stock<br />
levels are low (or in non agent terms, there<br />
aren’t enough houses on the market to meet<br />
buyer demand) and the number of other<br />
buyers looking is high. I have recently met<br />
many buyers at the end of their wits trying to<br />
buy a property.<br />
What advice can I offer?<br />
1. Review your criteria<br />
Would you consider other areas or property<br />
types than what you have been looking for.<br />
For example is a unit a more realistic option<br />
than a 3 bedroom home on a full section. You<br />
might need to start a step back from what<br />
you were hoping too.<br />
2. Have you consulted a mortgage broker?<br />
A broker will be able to give you more lending<br />
options than your bank and you might find<br />
you are able to borrow more (on this I never<br />
condone maxing out your finances just to buy<br />
a house, but an extra $30-50,000 could widen<br />
your buying options greatly).<br />
3. Keep Going<br />
I know it’s frustrating and you’ve been to<br />
that many open homes agents are starting to<br />
know you by name but I can’t see the market<br />
getting any easier anytime soon. Keep in<br />
mind that once your in your in. You might not<br />
end up buying exactly what you wanted but<br />
once you have secured your first property<br />
then your journey gets easier from there.<br />
Every house on the market has to be<br />
purchased by someone and the one for you<br />
is out there, you might miss out on a few first<br />
but learn what you can as you go and keep<br />
positive. Share your experiences too so other<br />
home buyers can learn along with you.<br />
Vanessa Golightly,<br />
Business Owner<br />
and Licensee Agent<br />
Ray White Papanui<br />
027 664 9292<br />
Vanessa Golightly<br />
Licensee Agent &<br />
Business Owner<br />
027 664 9292<br />
Claire Morris<br />
Licensee Agent &<br />
Business Owner<br />
027 662 4822<br />
Property Management Update – Welcome to <strong>2021</strong><br />
This year has sure kicked off with a hiss and<br />
a roar in the world of property management!<br />
Not only are we all preparing and studying<br />
hard to ensure we have a full understanding<br />
of the new Residential Tenancies<br />
Amendments Act 2020 which comes<br />
into effect on 11th February, but we are<br />
experiencing a very high demand for rentals.<br />
Since the passing of the amendments last<br />
year landlords and property managers alike<br />
have been wondering how these changes<br />
along with the impending Healthy Homes<br />
standards deadlines all so close together<br />
were going to impact our market, and<br />
unfortunately it does appear that it will, to<br />
some degree, be to the detriment of people<br />
needing rental properties.<br />
There are of course several factors<br />
contributing to a short supply and high<br />
Feature Properties<br />
demand. From landlords deciding it is all<br />
getting too hard for them, the increase in<br />
sales prices pushing them towards selling, or<br />
of course, the influx of returning Kiwis who<br />
need their previously rented out property<br />
back to move into.<br />
Prior to Christmas rental demand was<br />
fairly good across the board in Canterbury,<br />
however in the past two weeks we have seen<br />
huge numbers of enquiries. In our North<br />
Canterbury office, if we did not put a limit of<br />
maximum attendees at each open home for<br />
security reasons and in order to best manage<br />
the situation, our viewing numbers would be<br />
in excess of 50 groups at some properties.<br />
So how can we get over this hurdle for our<br />
tenants? The banks increasing investor’s<br />
LVRs (from 20% equity currently, to 40%<br />
at the end of March) is certainly not going<br />
to help, however I was recently speaking<br />
with some mortgage advisors, and the good<br />
news is that second tier lenders (lenders<br />
other than banks) are not governed by the<br />
same rules, and they are offering some very<br />
competitive interest rates. In my opinion<br />
rental properties are still a more than viable<br />
investment, particularly with interest rates<br />
at the bank being so low – so… tongue in<br />
cheek, I encourage you all to purchase rental<br />
properties so we can house some more<br />
awesome tenants!<br />
Katrina Green,<br />
Operations Manager<br />
Property Management<br />
027 606 0030<br />
Stuart Morris<br />
Licensee Agent<br />
& Auctioneer<br />
027 422 6395<br />
Tracy Thomson<br />
Licensee Salesperson<br />
027 440 3035<br />
Katrina Green<br />
Operations Manager<br />
Property Management<br />
027 606 0030<br />
Ben McNab<br />
Auctioneer & Licensee<br />
Salesperson<br />
Olivia Hendry<br />
Executive Assistant<br />
Estelle Schuurman<br />
Property Manager<br />
52 John Campbell Crescent<br />
Vanessa Golightly<br />
8 Proctor Street, Papanui<br />
Tracy Thomson<br />
9 Weruweru Street, Marshland<br />
Tracy Thomson<br />
Allie McConnell<br />
Property Management<br />
Assistant<br />
Joy Coughlan<br />
Mortgage Broker<br />
027 223 3572<br />
40 Jutland Street, North New Brighton<br />
Tracy Thomson<br />
50 Glenfield Crescent, Mairehau<br />
Vanessa Golightly<br />
19 Mooray Avenue, Bishopdale<br />
Vanessa Golightly<br />
Level 1, 7 Winston Avenue, Papanui<br />
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