Selwyn_Times: October 19, 2022

Wednesday October 19 2022 Selwyn Times
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NEWS 5
plan change
GROWING: Work
started this week on
a 25-hectare block
on the south side of
Edward St, Lincoln,
where about 240
residential sections
will go, and next
to it potentially a
retirement home.
PHOTO: BARRY
CLARKE
Among supporting submitters
were the Sheafs’ and Frasers’
neighbours, who live in the PC79
area.
John and Bev Broadway,
Anthony Sutton, and Jason
Rademaker submitted separately,
but outlined the same reasons,
including that building houses
would be a better and more efficient
use of their land, the PC79
area would be a logical extension
to the township and it would be
well-placed to connect with the
new Kakaha Park across the road.
The Broadways also said their
lifestyle block was too small for
a viable farming business. It was
currently used for grazing “a few
sheep and a couple of horses”.
Rademaker also said Kakaha
Park would have hundreds of
car parking spaces and lighting,
which was more suited to the
residential lifestyle the subdivision
would bring.
The PC79 application was
made by Birchs Village Ltd, of
which Ryan Geddes is the sole
director. He lives in Christchurch
and is understood to own
one of the eight blocks of land
which make up the PC79 area.
Geddes did not return calls to
the Selwyn Times.
Meanwhile, the two remaining
plan changes pertaining to
Prebbleton are Plan Change 68,
for 820 sections on Trents Rd,
and Plan Change 72, for 295 sections
on the south side of Trices
Rd and eastern side of Birchs Rd.
PC68 is soon to be operative
after no appeals were received
by the deadline date of Friday
last week, while PC72 is being
appealed in the Environment
Court.
New development plus
retirement home bid
• By Barry Clarke
PRELIMINARY groundwork
is underway on another big
residential housing development
in Lincoln, which may eventually
also see a retirement home next
to it.
About 240 sections are
planned for a 25-hectare site
bordering Edward St back to the
Lincoln Wetlands area, a popular
recreation area for walkers,
joggers and cyclists, and home to
numerous bird species.
Lime Developments owner
Jack Lin said engineering consents
are still being worked
through, but the company
was able to start preliminary
ground work to take advantage
of the spring and early summer
weather.
The subdivision was given
building consent late last year.
It was hoped the titles for the
first stage of 62 sections would be
available by mid next year.
The proximity of the wetlands,
Liffey Springs Reserve and
walking tracks along the
Ararira-LII River would make
the development attractive to
buyers, said Lin.
The longer term plan was for
a retirement home to be built on
land purchased by the company
on the southern side of Edward
St and Ellesmere Rd. There were
discussions with a retirement
home operator.
Fencing with marketing would
soon go up along Ellesmere Rd
where the residential sections
were to be developed, he said.
The subdivision would be
called Brookvale and the rest
home, The Sterling, Lincoln.
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