Nor'West News: September 15, 2022

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Thursday September 15 2022
CONCEPT DESIGN: The complex will include an 18-hole
indoor mini golf course, 40-bay golf driving range, pro shop,
function rooms and cafe, and batting cages for softball,
cricket and baseball. ​Above – nearby Taiora: QEII Recreation
and Sports Centre.
QEII sports complex gets green light
• By Natalie Pham
A $12 MILLION multi-sport
training and entertainment
complex planned for QEII Park
has received the go-ahead.
The company Five Under Par
Ltd will now have nine months
to secure funding and provide
sufficient financial information, a
business plan and a final design.
If satisfied with the provided
information, the city council
will enter into a lease with the
company.
The decision to grant an
agreement was made by the
Waitai Coastal-
Burwood Community
Board on Monday.
The complex will
include a mini golf
course, a 40-bay golf
driving range, batting
cages for softball,
cricket and baseball,
function rooms and a
cafe, and a pro shop.
Alternate plans would be made
Chris Bond
for an eight-lane sack slide as the
proposed area was not included
in the available areas for
lease.
Said board chair Kelly
Barber: “It’s very nice to
see people prepare to take
that risk to do something
for the community.”
Board member Linda
Stewart said she was
happy to see the plan go
through.
“It’s an element that we’ve been
waiting for as QEII Park is in
the middle of both wards and
it’s a perfect location with the
expressway.”
City council head of city
growth and property Bruce
Rendall said the lease will be 20
years, plus one right of renewal
for a further term of 15 years less
one day.
“This makes a total lease term
of 35 years less one day,” he said.
The idea of bringing golf back
to QEII first occurred to sole
director of the company Chris
Bond about five years ago.
He was a former staff member
at the Ascot driving range –
the golf course that previously
occupied the site.
Said Bond: “[I] had so much
fun working in the shop helping
run the complex.”
He said the complex will
benefit all of Canterbury.
About 25 retail and hospitality
staff will be employed at the
facility.
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