Ashburton Courier: October 07, 2021

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4 Ashburton Courier, October 7, 2021
Ainbo-Spirit Of the Amazon
ReviewedbyRowenaHart
This abeautiful movie forall ages.Italked to 3
adults who were there with children and they
all enjoyedit!
The theme was environmental, about asmall
village saving their part of the Amazonian
rainforest from developers wanting toset up
agold mine.
And ifit is going to bring more attention to
what ishappening to our forests, not only the
Amazon, around the world too, that’s agood
thing.
Ireally liked the colour and designs of the
plants and creatures. And the costume
decoration on the princess,and the otherfolks
in the community were stunning. IfIwas ever
going tohave atattoo Iwould choose one of
the warriorsfaceand body paintingdesigns....
it wasjust amazing.
Arealtreat forthese holidays.
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Second bridge investment
As the paper went to print
yesterdayAshburton
District councillors were
voting on a
recommendation to
progress investment and
detailed designfor a
second urbanbridge across
the Ashburton River.
The recommendation
follows asecondstage
businesscase for the
second bridge, which says
Chalmers Avenue is
technically preferred over
aduplicate State Highway
1bridge off WestStreet.
Anew roadoff the
proposed bridge wouldlink
southtoGrahamsRoad.
The Chalmers Avenue
bridge could be
constructed largely offline,
wouldreduce traffic
on the highway through
Ashburton and make it
safer for local road users,
and support future growth
at LakeHood and Tinwald
east, the business case
says.
The duplicate SH1
bridge faced potentially
significant property and
constructabilitychallenges
and NZTA, apartner in
bridge planning so far,said
it would be verydifficult to
build on eitherside of the
existing bridge.
At the meeting
councillors considered the
recommendation to
progress the business case
to amore detailed and
design phase and economic
assessment of the
Chalmers Avenuebridge
option.
The business case also
recommends NZTA extend
the merge lanes at South
Street/SH1 intersection
next year and consider
clip­on passing bays for
cyclists on the existing
bridge.
It also suggests an ondemand
public transport
service like Timaru’s and
in the really long­term a
walking/cycling bridge
across the river from
Tarbottons Roadtothe
mountain bike park.
If ticked off by
councillors, the detailed
business case could be
complete in 2024 and the
project shovel ready for the
next national Land
Transport programme.
Construction could begin
by 2026.
The business case work
has beencompleted by
consultants Stantec.
Council secured $94,500
funding from the
Provincial Growth Fund
for the case, NZTA have
also contributed $203,694
and council $101,206.
Ashburtonmayor Neil
Brown said it might seema
second bridge has beena
long time in the planning,
but without the detailed
level of work so far, council
was highly unlikely to
attract the 80 percent
funding from government
budgeted for in the Long
Term Plan.
The drivers for the
bridge were population
growth and development in
Ashburton and Tinwald,
road safety,and freight
movement, he said.
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Disposal of park gets council nod
Ashburton District councillors
unanimously agreed yesterday to
dispose of Grove Street Park and
negotiate fair compensation from the
developers of Ashbury Grove
subdivision.
The developers, GS Holdings,
asked that the park be made into a
roadway into the new subdivision,
and in exchange they would build a
new bigger park in the subdivision.
During an extraordinary meeting
last week council reviewed the
submissions made by the public. Of
which 45 submissions were received,
with 36 (or 80 per cent) which
supported the disposal of Grove
Street Park.
Ashbury Grove project manager
Andrew Mason spoke at the meeting
pointing out the subdivision did not
need the Grove Street access, but
because of lack of sufficient sized
playgrounds in the area, the
developers felt having anew bigger
park in the subdivision with access
off Grove Street would serve the
neighbourhood better.
‘‘We could build the subdivision as
acul­de­sac, but that doesn't fix the
existing problems of the local streets
not having apark facility of the
appropriate size.
‘‘The existing parkwhichisnot a
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recreational reserve, it is afreehold
asset, turningitinto aroad, givesthe
existingresidential areas access to an
increased size park,’’ Mr Mason said.
Senior policy advisor Richard
Mabon clarified that the decision to
dispose of the park is separate from
the decision on resource consents for
the subdivision.
Whenasked about the historyofthe
parkMrMabon said back in 1975 the
parkwas set aside for aroad, but the
landwas nevermade into aroad.
‘‘SoIthinkthe original intention
withGrove Street Parkwas that it
would become aroad in the fullness of
time, as development movedeast.’’
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