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Wednesday <strong>May</strong> <strong>25</strong> <strong>2022</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
NEWS 3<br />
Dog park dropped from reserve plan<br />
• By Mick Jensen<br />
THE WAIKURA Linwood-<br />
Central-Heathcote Community<br />
Board has approved a landscape<br />
plan for Birdsey Reserve in<br />
Heathcote, but it does not<br />
include a dog park.<br />
Some 61 out of 62 submitters<br />
to the draft plan were in favour<br />
of the revegetation and food<br />
forest planting work outlined<br />
in stage 1, but there was a 50/50<br />
split in terms of the development<br />
of a dog park earmarked for the<br />
site in stage 2.<br />
A number of changes were<br />
made to the draft following<br />
community consultation, with<br />
the proposed dog park area<br />
halved to <strong>25</strong>12 m2.<br />
City councillor<br />
Yani Johanson<br />
said there was a<br />
strong need for a<br />
dog park in the<br />
area, but he had<br />
concerns about<br />
Yani<br />
Johanson<br />
safety and traffic<br />
if it was located at<br />
the reserve.<br />
Johanson had<br />
been moved by submitters on<br />
both sides and said it was a difficult<br />
issue for staff to deal with<br />
because of the split feelings for<br />
the dog park.<br />
He said the community board<br />
needed to prioritise finding an<br />
REMOVED: The proposed dog park for Birdsey Reserve has been cut from the final<br />
landscape management plan.<br />
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alternative dog park site, because<br />
there was demand for one in the<br />
south east.<br />
At the community board<br />
meeting last week Heathcote<br />
Valley food forest group<br />
representative Amelia Knight<br />
asked city councillors to “invest<br />
in conservation’’ at Birdsey<br />
Reserve, but explore alternative<br />
locations for the dog park.<br />
A dog park would bring in<br />
more people, increase traffic on<br />
an already busy road and create<br />
parking issues and safety concerns,<br />
she said.<br />
“We have children learning<br />
in this area, the community<br />
takes ownership of the reserve<br />
and there is room to grow at the<br />
moment – we don’t want that to<br />
change.’’<br />
She suggested using red zone<br />
land for a dog park.<br />
Another speaker, John Marsh,<br />
who was involved in writing the<br />
original landscape management<br />
plan for Birdsey Reserve 20<br />
years ago, said previous city<br />
councillors had voted to support<br />
biodiversity, which had been a<br />
good decision then and was still<br />
a good decision now.<br />
The reserve had grown from<br />
a paddock on a slope into a lowland<br />
dry bush habitat that was<br />
doing well and was supported by<br />
community groups, like the food<br />
forest group.<br />
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Marsh said he believed the city<br />
council had not tried hard<br />
enough to find alternate dog<br />
park sites and thought there<br />
were spaces and areas where<br />
dogs could run free without<br />
intruding on either people or<br />
biodiversity.<br />
There is recognised demand<br />
for a dog park in the bays<br />
area and city council staff had<br />
identified Birdsey Reserve as the<br />
most suitable site.<br />
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