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<strong>Ashburton</strong> <strong>Courier</strong>, <strong>April</strong> <strong>29</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
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Council signs on dotted line for new HQ<br />
Aplainlooking document 3cm thick<br />
itemises the $42,249,496 construction<br />
cost of <strong>Ashburton</strong>’s new civic and library<br />
centre.<br />
The total cost of the building is $56.75<br />
million, after adding costs for architects,<br />
building consents, aproject manager<br />
and $5m for contingencies.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> district Mayor Neil Brown<br />
has signed every page of the<br />
construction contract and said it was<br />
exciting to be under way after many<br />
years of planning.<br />
Naylor Love will construct the legacy<br />
building, which will include the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District Council’s<br />
administration headquarters and public<br />
library.<br />
The two parties met onsite last week,<br />
where 180 piles have already been<br />
screwed into the ground on the corner of<br />
Havelock Street and Baring Square<br />
East.<br />
Earthworks and reinforcing work will<br />
continue until July, when the timber<br />
frame of the new build will begin to rise.<br />
Naylor Love regional manager<br />
Graeme Earl said the company was<br />
thrilled to be delivering such amajor<br />
project for the district. The centre<br />
would serve residents for decades to<br />
come and use some of the latest<br />
technologies in modern construction.<br />
The official signing of the contract was<br />
abig occasion for council and the wider<br />
community. It has followed more than a<br />
decade of site consideration and<br />
consultation.<br />
Mr Brown said Naylor Love had a<br />
great track record and experience in<br />
timber frame builds, as well as in<br />
artesian well heating and cooling, which<br />
were key components of the new facility.<br />
Aunique part of the building was how<br />
it would incorporate historic Pioneer<br />
Hall on Havelock Street.<br />
The red brick hall will be swallowed<br />
by the new build. Walls and trusses will<br />
be strengthened, and the roof replaced<br />
with glass; it will be areading nook<br />
connected to the children’s library.<br />
Local subcontractor GDC has piled<br />
around the hall. Special vibration<br />
monitoring was undertaken to ensure<br />
the building would not be damaged.<br />
And so far, so good.<br />
Pioneer Hall was built in 1916 and is<br />
an important part of the town’s social<br />
history. It was built as abase for the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Hospital and Charitable Aid<br />
Board, then used as awomen’s rest<br />
rooms, ataxi office and then<br />
headquarters for Birthright.<br />
Some 200 people are expected to be<br />
working on the civic building when<br />
construction is in full swing.<br />
The threestorey building has been<br />
designed as three separate buildings<br />
and will link to Baring Square East. It<br />
will feature amodern library, council<br />
chambers and office space for staff.<br />
It has been designed to celebrate<br />
views of the alps with colours and<br />
materials inspired by the district’s<br />
rivers, farm land and high country.<br />
Construction will be captured by a<br />
timelapse camera fixed to the town<br />
clock in Baring Square.<br />
New roads nod<br />
to local history<br />
‘‘You learn something every dayatcouncil,’’<br />
said Cr John Falloonwhen the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
DistrictCouncil signed off on aroad name<br />
chosenbecauseofapotato.<br />
Councilapproved the name Burbank<br />
Place,named after the Burbank potato that<br />
was grown extensively by Allan Lochhead on<br />
the farmland that now comprises Camrose<br />
Estate.<br />
Arrowsmith Drivewas also approved as<br />
the name of another road for the estate,<br />
which is inMethven.<br />
Arrowsmith Driveisathroughroad from<br />
MemorialCrescent and namedafterone of<br />
the directors of Camrose (Philip Wareing),<br />
who also ownsArrowsmith Station. The<br />
developers sayitisanoblique reference to<br />
Mr Wareing’s huge contributiontoMid<br />
Canterbury and Methven.<br />
BurbankPlaceis ashort culdesac in the<br />
estate.<br />
In another road nameapproval,<br />
councillors gavethe nod to aroad in stage 14<br />
atLakeHoodtobeknown as Kennedy Quay,<br />
after Graham Kennedy. Mr Kennedy was<br />
involvedwith the establishmentofLake<br />
Hood and whohad recently retired as<br />
chairman of the Lake HoodExtension Trust.<br />
Stage14isaccessed from abridgeoff Lake<br />
Hood Drive.AUshaped island has<br />
propertiesthat are surrounded by water; the<br />
other road iscalled BridgewaterQuay.<br />
Cr Falloon said Kennedy Quay wasa<br />
fitting name as Mr Kennedy played abig part<br />
in creating an amazingasset forthe district.<br />
Frustration over<br />
race closure<br />
Afarming couple frustrated at delays over<br />
their request to close astockwater race that<br />
runsthrough their property put theircase in<br />
personto<strong>Ashburton</strong> District Councillors.<br />
Bevand Lindsay Bagrie say six of eight<br />
peopleaffected by the racewantitclosed<br />
and they have already spent $4400 toapply<br />
for consent to divert it.<br />
They had also successfully applied to close<br />
severalother races on theirfarm, in line<br />
with council andEnvironment Canterbury’s<br />
aimstoclose open water races.<br />
Mr Bagrie said they hadstarted the<br />
current process at the end of last year.<br />
Councilinfrastructure services manager<br />
NeilMcCann said staff were processing the<br />
closure application,and it was a<br />
complicatedmatter. It involved Moffats<br />
Drain, which wasadministeredbyEcan.<br />
Councilstaff were contacting property<br />
ownerstoverify whatthey hadsaid in earlier<br />
consultation.<br />
‘‘Wealso believe there are somewetlands<br />
involved,and eelslive in the wetlands.’’<br />
He said staffwerefollowing council<br />
guidelines andpolicy. ‘‘Wehave apersonat<br />
the end with no alternative supply.’’<br />
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