Western News: May 06, 2021

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Home gets new life with church
• By Bea Gooding
A THREE-bedroom Lockwood
home destined for demolition
has been given a new purpose in
life in Papanui.
It used to stand in the heart of
Prebbleton and served as staff
quarters at the former Meadow
Mushrooms site on Springs Rd.
Rather than demolishing the
home to make room for a new
$170 million retirement village,
the Summerset Group decided
to donate it to the Papanui
Baptist Church.
The house was relocated to
its new home at Sawyers Arms
Rd on Tuesday, where it will be
refurbished and used to expand
the church’s community activity.
“We are absolutely delighted
with this gift. It’s going to make
such a difference to our ability
to expand our community
activity,” said Papanui Baptist
Church elder Greg Scott.
“It needs a fair amount of
renovation as it hasn’t been
used for quite some time, but
it’s a wonderful house. Being a
Lockwood house, it’s very strong
and robust – we think it’ll be a
good one to renovate.”
The church is the umbrella
organisation that oversees
the Papanui Baptist Freedom
Trust and strongly supports the
ON THE MOVE: A three-bedroom Lockwood home from
Prebbleton has been donated to the Papanui Baptist
Church.
Papanui Youth Development
Trust.
Through these trusts, a
number of community activities
are run from the church, such
as music classes, lunches, social
English for migrants, games and
creative sewing.
Over time, the house will
be used to help accommodate
some of these activities that are
usually based at the church.
But for now, it will house trust
workers to enable them to live
within the community they
serve.
Having some of the workers
based closer to the church
enabled them to see issues on the
ground first-hand.
“Embedding in our
community is important to us,
especially for the benefit of the
people who are struggling with
housing, or loneliness,” said
Scott.
“It will be a place for
people who are active in the
community to get to know their
neighbours, rather than coming
from different parts of the city.”
Senior design manager
Craig Given, of the Summerset
development team, did not see
a need to demolish a perfectly
good home.
“It made no sense to demolish
it even though it would be
quicker, so we thought: ‘Here’s
a good crowd who will put it to
good use,’” he said.
“They provide great
community support in a number
of ways, and they also had the
availability of land.”
Summerset was recently
granted resource consent
to build its new Prebbleton
retirement village, with
construction expected to start in
January next year.
It will offer 290 independent
homes, including serviced
apartments, care rooms, and
a state-of-the-art memory
care centre for residents with
dementia.
It will be its fourth village
across Canterbury.
In Brief
ROAD SPEED MARKINGS
The Fendalton-Waimairi-
Harewood Community
Board has requested the city
council install a sufficiently
marked coloured speed table
at the Richmond Ave and John
Paterson Drive intersection,
with additional road markings
throughout the Longhurst
subdivision to remind drivers
of the 40km/h speed limit. The
current speed table, installed
as a result of more traffic from
the Christchurch Southern
Motorway, is the same colour
as the road around it, therefore
drivers have had difficulty seeing
it to slow down. A staff report
will be provided to the board in
the coming weeks.
TOY LIBRARY GRANT
The Hornby Toy Library will
receive a $10,000 grant, which
will go towards signage, storage
and security purposes. The grant
was approved by the Halswell-
Hornby-Riccarton Community
Board from its discretionary
response fund. The library has
been experiencing a spate of
crimes in the last year, including
repeated cases of graffiti, theft,
and smashed windows. It has
spent the last few months
fundraising for repairs, security
lights and cameras.
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