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<strong>Selwyn</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Wednesday <strong>January</strong> <strong>24</strong> 20<strong>24</strong><br />
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NEWS<br />
Solar farm<br />
planned for<br />
Dunsandel<br />
A 100HA SOLAR farm will be<br />
built in Dunsandel.<br />
The farm will be constructed<br />
by Lodestone Energy and will<br />
produce 80 GWh per year.<br />
Lodestone’s general manager of<br />
development Daniel Cunningham<br />
said the farm will be in keeping<br />
with the company’s agrivoltaic<br />
approach for all farms and will<br />
continue to maintain productive<br />
farming activity.<br />
“This combined use of agricultural<br />
and solar productivity<br />
results in more efficient use of the<br />
land and creates new value for the<br />
nation,” Cunningham said.<br />
The farm will connect via Orion’s<br />
new Norwood Grid Exit Point,<br />
which opened in December.<br />
The company is also building<br />
farms in Mount Somers and Clandeboye.<br />
The approval of the farm comes<br />
as a group of Brookside residents<br />
are getting ready to fight the<br />
second application for a solar<br />
farm by KeaX, which is applying<br />
for a resource consent to build a<br />
111ha venture on farmland along<br />
Buckleys Rd and Branch Drain<br />
Rd, approximately 10km north of<br />
Leeston.<br />
The Dunsandel farm received<br />
opposition when gaining resource<br />
consent.<br />
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Te Kaha is the city council’s<br />
largest-ever project with an<br />
allocated budget of $453 million.<br />
The Crown has contributed $220<br />
million from the Christchurch<br />
Regeneration Acceleration<br />
Fund, as well as $10 million for<br />
land decontamination. Any<br />
contribution from <strong>Selwyn</strong> or<br />
Waimakariri councils would<br />
offset the cost to Christchurch<br />
ratepayers.<br />
In August, Mauger said<br />
without a contribution from<br />
neighbouring councils the city<br />
council may need to introduce a<br />
ticket levy for out-of-towners to<br />
help with ongoing costs.<br />
Broughton said any funding<br />
model would have to be<br />
consulted on with ratepayers.<br />
“Any contribution from<br />
<strong>Selwyn</strong> would have to be<br />
subject to consultation with<br />
our community – but this<br />
needs to be a Canterbury-wide<br />
conversation.”<br />
Apart from <strong>Selwyn</strong> and<br />
Waimakariri, no other councils<br />
will be asked to help at this<br />
stage.<br />
The construction of the<br />
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Te Kaha: Ratepayers would<br />
be consulted, says Broughton<br />
Sam<br />
Broughton<br />
stadium is<br />
scheduled to<br />
be finished in<br />
mid-2026 – with<br />
Mauger wanting<br />
to host the<br />
Commonwealth<br />
Games in 2030.<br />
“Recently<br />
agreed<br />
host states<br />
Victoria, Australia (2026)<br />
and Alberta, Canada (2030)<br />
have subsequently decided<br />
against hosting the games<br />
(because of costs). This has left<br />
the Commonwealth Games<br />
Federation without host cities<br />
for the next two upcoming<br />
games,” Mauger said in his<br />
report.<br />
Christchurch City Councillors<br />
will decide today whether to<br />
investigate the viability of a bid<br />
for the 2030 games, and report<br />
back by August.<br />
PROGRESS: The 30,000-<br />
seat Te Kaha stadium is<br />
expected to be finished by<br />
mid-2026.<br />
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