Pegasus Post: April 15, 2021
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Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Thursday <strong>April</strong> <strong>15</strong> <strong>2021</strong> 3<br />
Plan for natural play area approved<br />
• By Bea Gooding<br />
CHILDREN USING a new<br />
playground in New Brighton will<br />
have a direct connection to the<br />
natural world once it has been<br />
completed.<br />
A landscape plan for a natural<br />
play area at Rawhiti Domain<br />
was recently approved by the<br />
Coastal-Burwood Community<br />
Board.<br />
A Government shovel-ready<br />
grant of $580,000 will help<br />
Eastern Community Sport and<br />
Recreation and the Guardians<br />
of Rawhiti to develop their joint<br />
vision for the area.<br />
“Nature play is the perfect<br />
place for imagination, exploration<br />
and physical play,” a city<br />
council staff report read.<br />
“There is research to support<br />
the positive links between<br />
direct experiences in nature and<br />
children’s mental, emotional and<br />
physical health and well-being.”<br />
The existing playground beside<br />
the tennis court will reach the<br />
end of its life within the next five<br />
to 10 years and will be removed<br />
once the time has come.<br />
An opportunity rose to enhance<br />
the domain as the area<br />
already had natural materials<br />
which can be used as playground<br />
equipment.<br />
Lower limbs on trees will be<br />
GOOD TO GO: The landscape plan for a new natural play area at Rawhiti Domain was<br />
recently approved by the Coastal-Burwood Community Board. <br />
kept on trees suitable for climbing<br />
and branches will be left<br />
behind for children to move and<br />
build shelters.<br />
The existing wooded sand<br />
dunes between the athletics<br />
track and golf course provided<br />
an area with “wild and natural<br />
character.”<br />
Currently used for exploring,<br />
walking and biking, it will be<br />
retained and enhanced with additional<br />
native plantings which<br />
will encourage butterflies to the<br />
area.<br />
Logs, stumps and boulders<br />
already there will be used as a<br />
feature for play, including an<br />
accessible fort, tee-pee village,<br />
slide, timber merry-go-round,<br />
log steps, net nests and a woodland<br />
garden.<br />
The play surface will be made<br />
from recycled rubber tyres. The<br />
amount of plastic in the play area<br />
will be limited.<br />
Using recycled plastic for park<br />
furniture such as seating and tables<br />
were considered, but timber<br />
was chosen to keep in character<br />
of the play space.<br />
However, additional shade,<br />
CCTV cameras, lighting, rubbish<br />
bins, a park barbecue and an<br />
area for wet play were outside<br />
the budget and scope for the<br />
project.<br />
Construction is expected to be<br />
completed by October this year.<br />
Concern<br />
people could<br />
be hit by cars<br />
• From page 1<br />
Pets had already been hit by<br />
“boy racers” travelling too fast<br />
on Briarmont St. Residents<br />
were concerned that it would<br />
a person or child next – even<br />
Gibbs himself was nearly struck<br />
by a blue mini-van while on the<br />
footpath.<br />
Taking photos of offending<br />
vehicles in the act as evidence<br />
proved difficult as most incidents<br />
occurred when it was dark<br />
outside.<br />
But since the Burwood <strong>Pegasus</strong><br />
Community Watch stepped<br />
up its presence in Avondale,<br />
residents felt safer as incidents<br />
became less frequent.<br />
“We’re all concerned about<br />
this, hopefully, there will be action<br />
at some point,” Gibbs said.<br />
Community board chairman<br />
Kelly Barber understood the<br />
problem having witnessed it<br />
himself.<br />
But he was concerned that<br />
the issue may become another<br />
community’s problem when<br />
steps were taken to reduce it in<br />
Avondale.<br />
“The best thing we can do is<br />
identifying those vehicles, taking<br />
photos of cars and reporting<br />
incidents [to police].”<br />
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