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16 Selwyn Times Wednesday March 6 2024 RURAL | LIFESTYLE | RESIDENTIAL OPEN HOME HORORATA 2 Hobbs Street Hororata Village Cafe and Bar - Business for Sale A wonderful opportunity here to live the rural life and run a business from the busy small township of Hororata. A very tidy 130m2 (approximately) building offers open plan dining, cafe and bar area with a separate kitchen and toilet area. North-facing is an outside eating area and a closed-in bar area on a large deck. Great potential. This building has a wonderful history of once being the old Post Office and Switch Board; having many memories for the locals. Please contact the agent to arrange an inspection. DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY Plus GST (if any) Closes 2.00pm, Thursday 21 March VIEW By Appointment Only Min Cookson M 027 249 5417 E min.cookson@pggwrightson.co.nz GLENTUNNEL 66 Homebush Road For Definite and Urgent Sale! This charming and cosy brick home offers wonderful features comprising a large open plan kitchen, living, and dining area with a cathedral ceiling and large windows. Three bedrooms with the master featuring a walk-through wardrobe and ensuite. A family bathroom and good storage. Heating is a gas fire and heat pump plus the home is double-glazed. A very desirable property in a wonderful highly sought after area. With a sportsmans paradise of rivers, golf courses and mountains at your very doorstep to enjoy. A place to call home. $590,000 GST Inclusive VIEW 1.00-1.30pm, Sunday 10 & 17 March Min Cookson M 027 249 5417 E min.cookson@pggwrightson.co.nz pggwre.co.nz/DAR39227 pggwre.co.nz/LCN39060 Introducing SARAH VAN HOOF Residential and Lifestyle Sales Consultant M 027 230 9624 E sarah.vanhoof@pggwrightson.co.nz pggwre.co.nz PGG Wrightson Real Estate Limited, licensed under the REAA 2008. PGG Wrightson Real Estate Limited, licensed under REAA 2008 6/19 Gerald Street, LINCOLN Cnr South Terrace & Ross Street, DARFIELD Phone: 03 341 4301 | Email: christchurch@pggwre.co.nz Helping grow the country For more great listings, visit www.pggwre.co.nz PGG Wrightson Real Estate Limited, licensed under the REAA 2008 Helping grow the country
Wednesday March 6 2024 Selwyn Times Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz LETTERS 17 Call for ‘a rates revolt’; unpacking the cost of chlorinating water We want to hear your views on the issues affecting life in Selwyn Send emails to: barry@starmedia.kiwi Letters may be edited or rejected at Star Media’s discretion. Letters should be about 200 words. A name, postal address and phone number should be provided. Please use your real name, not a nickname, alias, pen name or abbreviation. I 100 per cent support Graham Bethell’s letter (Selwyn Times, February 14) about the massive 16 per cent increase in rates. I presented a submission to the council about three years ago requesting a decrease in rates, and I fail to understand while inflation was at 2 per cent why did they want a 6 per cent rate increase? If the council only spent what we need and not what they want, then massive increases would not be necessary. Elected members and council staff should realise we, the ratepayers, provide their wage and salaries. And by massive rate increases they have failed their duty of care. I must congratulate councillor Lydia Gliddon for her comments in the Selwyn Times about the huge increase in the rates. It is now time for a rates revolt or a petition on this massive increase on rates. We, the people, have had enough. -Trevor Taege Well done Graham Bethell. The 16 per cent Selwyn council rate hike, followed by an even larger one of 24.6 per cent from ECan, should be treated with the contempt they deserve. We are reminded daily of the cost of living crisis in New Zealand, along with the massive cost increases and diminished returns for many farms and businesses, but it appears our councils have no regard whatsoever for the plight of those people – or is it a case of the tails in those grandiose kennels in Rolleston and Christchurch actually wagging the dogs? ECan claims it needs a lot of money for flood protection, but if RATES RISE: It’s time to protest against the rates increase, readers say. PHOTO: GETTY it had continued to allow gravel to be taken from river beds in large quantities as it used to be, their flood problem would have been largely solved. Instead, we have good land being used for quarries while river beds continue to rise. When I was young the Malvern council office in Darfield was run by the county clerk and one female assistant. The council consisted of local businessmen and farmers, and good business acumen and commonsense ran the county. Maybe it is time for ratepayers to withhold their rate payments in protest at the extravagance and inefficiency of the current regime. -Fred Bull Water Contrary to Mr Wade’s assertion in last week’s letters page (Selwyn Times, February 28), Taumata Arowai is still very much in operation. It is New Zealand’s drinking water standards regulator, councils are legally required to comply, and as far as I’m aware the new government has no plans to repeal that legislation. Mr Wade may have confused Taumata Arowai with the large water service entities created by the previous government, which have indeed been disestablished. Meeting the new standards without chlorination is not as simple or cheap as he suggests. Even our new infrastructure was designed to meet the pre-2022 regulations, so we would have to replace kilometres of pipe all over the district. Also, even the cleanest aquifer-sourced water can be contaminated between bore and tap, so they’d require us to install smart meters (not just water meters) to detect leaks far more quickly. The exemption checklist also includes far more frequent lab testing in more locations along the network. Would the extra millions be worth it? Maybe, but the only source for that money is rates. Anyone who would like to see the legislation around drinking water standards, water infrastructure management, or local government funding should seek a conversation with our MP, not council. We are all waiting to find out what happens next. -Sophie McInnes, district councillor Last week, reader Les Wade questioned the $82 million cost of stopping chlorination of the district’s water. A council spokesperson responds: All public drinking water supplies must be chlorinated in New Zealand by law. All water on Selwyn supplies is treated at water treatment plants before it enters the pipe reticulation to your property. Chlorine is added before the water goes into the pipe network to provide an additional contamination barrier, all the way up to your tap. The requirements to get an exemption are very high – we are the only council which has been granted an exemption for a regular residential supply. Learning from the Rakaia Huts exemption process, costs to obtain exemptions for the remaining schemes have been estimated by external consultants. To obtain and implement exemptions we expect that we would need to change the way we operate our water supplies by undertaking increased testing and monitoring, and further upgrade our network to reduce the risk of contamination. These upgrades include additional treatment, storage, earlier pipe renewals and metering, so we can more accurately identify when there are leaks. The capital costs to meet all the requirements for Rakaia Huts and our other 16 supplies that we might be able to get to an exemption for is estimated at $67.4 million and the ongoing maintenance would cost an additional $15.2 million – or a total across all the supplies of $82.6 million over a 10-year period. Street lights One of the reasons we purchased our home in Stonebridge, Prebbleton, was because we really liked how the subdivision was set up, with the gorgeous lamps that always looked so nice when we looked out of our window at night. Surely there are LEDs that can be used without changing the look of our local neighbourhood. Murray England obviously had no consideration for our community. We don’t live in a public park that is designed with a budget; we live in a subdivision with million-dollar homes. Please can we have our antique-style lamps returned with the amazing LED lights that we are all happy to change to reduce the costs for ratepayers. How do we help other neighbourhood in our district from being subject to change with no consideration for the local people? 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