Bay Harbour: August 04, 2021

Wednesday August 4 2021 Bay Harbour News
• By Samantha Mythen
THE FERRYMEAD Bays
Football Club wants additional
lighting in Barnett Park.
The football club has applied
to the city council for the
installation of six additional
light towers. They are hoping for
these to be installed ready for
the 2022 football season.
It would like new lighting
as club membership has
significantly increased over
recent years and the existing
lighting no longer covers the
amount of field required for
the number of players training
in the evening.
Club director
of football
Alan Walker
said 27 teams
are using
Barnett Park
but due to the
lack of lighting,
some teams
are only able to
train one night a week.
“Most teams need to train in
the evening as the coaches and
team members are all working
full time,” he said.
“The lack of night training
facilities is a city-wide
problem but it is exaggerated
here.”
Currently, there are four light
towers along the east boundary
of the playing fields and these
are used for night training,
which runs from 5.30-8.30pm
during the week from April to
September.
Two of the proposed new
lights would be installed on
the eastern field boundary
(extending the line of the four
existing lights) and four on
the western boundary, next to
the bush-covered slope below
Moncks Spur Rd.
The new light towers would
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Bid to install extra lights at park
Alan Walker
be about 18m high,
4m taller than the
existing towers. Each
new tower would have
three lights and new
technology for light
distribution would
prevent the light from
entering neighbouring
properties.
The club has also been in
discussion with the Sumner
Rugby Club about the potential
for the establishment of
astroturf in the area.
PROPOSAL:
The
Ferrymead
Bays Football
Club wants
to install six
additional
lighting
towers at
Barnett Park.
“Having great facilities for
playing all seasons, allows
more people to get active,” said
Walker.
Submissions can be made on
the city council website until
August 24.
NEWS 5
Flying event
cancelled due
to nesting birds
• By Samantha Mythen
THE ANNUAL Float and Field
event at Lake Forsyth planned
for August 28 and 29 has been
cancelled due to nesting birds in
the area.
The Christchurch Radio Flyers
Club has held the annual fly-in
event at the lake for a number of
years.
However, in consultation
with the city council, it has
cancelled the event, which club
secretary Peter Hewson said was
“devastating.”
It was meant to be the event’s
25th anniversary and a memorial
to a club founder, who was
recently killed in a motor-cycle
crash.
“It was a great spot to fly off the
lake and the land,” said Hewson.
The club will now hold an event
at Burnham Field on the dates
originally scheduled.
Banks Peninsula Community
Board chairwoman Tori Peden
said the board had asked the city
council to investigate whether the
club could use the area outside of
the nesting season.
A small area of the wetland at
the head of the lake has already
been put forward as a wetland
ecosystem of national importance
for biodiversity.
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