The Star: April 15, 2021
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soon to be under way<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lancaster Park Memorial<br />
Gates will be protected during<br />
the works.<br />
City council staff are finalising<br />
the design for the repair and<br />
restoration of the gates, which is<br />
set to begin in spring. <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
reported in September this could<br />
cost $500,000.<br />
Monitors will be installed<br />
on the gates to check for any<br />
movement while the stadium<br />
foundations are removed.<br />
A spatial plan – developed in<br />
conjunction with community<br />
and sporting groups – will be<br />
used as a guide for this work.<br />
Further development will<br />
occur as funding becomes<br />
available.<br />
It is anticipated there will<br />
noise, vibrations and dust<br />
from heavy machinery during<br />
the preparation works and<br />
removal of the former stadium’s<br />
foundations.<br />
City council staff will<br />
attempt to minimise the<br />
impact of this work as much as<br />
possible.<br />
<strong>The</strong> decision to demolish<br />
Lancaster Park stadium<br />
followed a status report showing<br />
that recommissioning it as a<br />
venue capable of hosting top<br />
international rugby tests would<br />
cost between about $255 to $275<br />
million.<br />
HISTORY: Lancaster<br />
Park witnessed<br />
noteworthy sporting<br />
moments<br />
before being demolished<br />
in 2019,<br />
including Crusaders<br />
Super Rugby<br />
championships<br />
and the All Blacks’<br />
1965 loss to South<br />
Africa.<br />
Thursday <strong>April</strong> <strong>15</strong> <strong>2021</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
NEWS 9<br />
Self-flying<br />
air taxi goes<br />
on display<br />
AN ALL-ELECTRIC, self-flying<br />
air taxi that takes off like a<br />
helicopter and flies like a plane<br />
will be on display this weekend.<br />
Aviation company, Wisk’s air<br />
taxi will be on public display in<br />
New Zealand for the first time at<br />
Take Charge Christchurch at the<br />
central library, Tūranga.<br />
<strong>The</strong> country’s first battery<br />
electric aircraft, operated by<br />
ElectricAir, will also be at the<br />
event.<br />
Take Charge Christchurch will<br />
be held on the ground floor of<br />
Tūranga on Saturday and Sunday<br />
to showcase how emerging<br />
technologies could change the<br />
future of aviation and mobility.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re will be two public<br />
presentations at 11am and 1pm<br />
on Saturday from Wisk NZ and<br />
Christchurch-based company,<br />
ElectricAir, about how their zero<br />
exhaust emission aircraft could<br />
change the way we travel.<br />
Said city council resource<br />
efficiency manager Kevin<br />
Crutchley: “As well as viewing<br />
these exciting innovative zero<br />
exhaust emission aircraft, there<br />
is a chance for people at the<br />
presentations to hear first-hand<br />
about these aircraft and the<br />
contribution they will make<br />
to reducing greenhouse gas<br />
emissions.”<br />
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