North Canterbury News: July 13, 2023
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Project an important initiative<br />
By DAVID HILL.<br />
Local Democracy Reporter<br />
Amahinga kai project in Kaiapoi has<br />
been labelled as an ‘‘outstanding’’<br />
community initiative.<br />
Waimakariri Deputy Mayor Neville<br />
Atkinson says the Huria Reserve<br />
heritage and mahinga kai area, to the<br />
south of Kaiapoi River, was an<br />
important part of the town’s<br />
regeneration after the 2010 and 2011<br />
earthquakes.<br />
‘‘This is an outstanding project and it<br />
has come out at the right cost all the way<br />
through.<br />
‘‘It is avery important part of<br />
Kaiapoi’s regeneration and it needs to<br />
be completed.’’<br />
The project is apartnership between<br />
the Waimakariri District Council and Te<br />
Rūnanga oNgāi Tūāhurir.<br />
It came out of the Kaiapoi residential<br />
red zone plan developed after the<br />
earthquakes.<br />
The council has completed physical<br />
implementation works over the last two<br />
years and has now entered into aformal<br />
agreement with Te Kōhaka o Tūhaitara<br />
Trust, which will manage the $1.8<br />
million project.<br />
Funding of $390,000 will now be<br />
transferred to the trust, from the <strong>2023</strong>/24<br />
annual plan.<br />
It was approved at last week’s council<br />
meeting, despite aproposal from Cr<br />
Paul Williams to defer it due to the<br />
economic situation.<br />
He says the trust should be looking for<br />
outside funding, like the Honda Forest,<br />
to the north of Kaiapoi River.<br />
Community and recreation general<br />
manager Chris Brown says the council<br />
had consulted extensively with the<br />
community as part of the regeneration<br />
plan and the Long Term Plan process.<br />
‘‘We said to the community we would<br />
deliver this project and we intend to<br />
deliver it.’’<br />
Cr Al Blackie, who is also aTeKōhaka<br />
o Tūhaitara Trust trustee, says the trust<br />
intended to seek commercial support<br />
and planned to engage with schools and<br />
community organisations.<br />
Mayor Dan Gordon says he was<br />
pleased to see the project come to<br />
fruition.<br />
‘‘The trust will continue to develop<br />
Fire and Ice festival of fun<br />
this space, which will celebrate<br />
traditional Māori customs and promote<br />
learning and recreation activity.’’<br />
Mr Gordon says the council had<br />
completed anumber of regeneration<br />
projects over the last six years,<br />
including sports fields, aBMX track, a<br />
dog park, and had redeveloped the<br />
marine precinct and the river banks.<br />
Acommunity hub, bringing together<br />
organisations such as Satisfy Food<br />
Rescue and the Kaiapoi Men’s Shed,<br />
was also being developed across the<br />
road from Huria Reserve.<br />
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