Month: June 2024

The Redwood Market is on this long weekend, from 10am to 1pm on Saturday at the Redwood Hotel, 340 Main North Road. See the market’s Facebook page for more info.

Council kerbside collections are not affected by the Matariki public holiday. If you normally put your bins out on Thursday night, they will be emptied on Friday as usual. To check your collection day, find out what public holidays to impact collections, or for a link to the Christchurch bins app, head to:
https://ccc.govt.nz/services/rubbish-and-recycling/

On 13 May 2024, the Waipapa Papanui-Innes-Central Community Board:

• received five public forum presentations, and heard four deputations in relation to Shirley Community Reserve;
• requested staff initiate the process to design a community building on Shirley Community Reserve, and identify an appropriate community partner/operator to progress the development of the facility;
• approved two grants from the Board’s Youth Development Fund;
• approved ten grants from the Board’s Discretionary Response fund;
• requested that staff initiative a trial working with agencies to address underlying social issues in the Edgeware Village area, and recommended that Council requests that staff investigate and implement a trial alcohol ban for Edgeware Village;
• approved the attendance of two Board members to the Community Boards’ Conference in August;
• and received a report on issues and initiatives within the Board area.

The Board will next meet on 11 July 2024.

Click through to read the full minutes:
https://christchurch.infocouncil.biz/Open/2024/06/PCBCC_20240613_MIN_9127_AT_WEB.htm

The Waipapa Papanui-Innes-Central Community Board will meet this Thursday 13 June at the Multicultural Recreation and Community Centre in Hagley Park – note the change of venue. The agenda includes:

• public participation;
• a report into a proposed community facility for Shirley Community Reserve;
• an application to the Board’s Youth Development Fund;
• ten applications to the Board’s Discretionary Response Fund totalling $25,500 (pic);
• a request for an alcohol ban for Edgeware Village;
• attendance at this year’s Community Boards Conference;
• an area report on initiatives and issues within the Board area;
• and Community Service Awards (to be considered in a public-excluded part of the meeting).

The meeting is open for the public to attend and will be livestreamed on the Board’s YouTube channel and Facebook page. Click through to read the full agenda:
https://christchurch.infocouncil.biz/Open/2024/06/PCBCC_20240613_AGN_9127_AT_WEB.htm

There’ll be a community planting day at Papanui Bush this Saturday 8 June, from 9am to 12:30pm. Meet at Papanui Bush (at the back of Bridgestone Reserve on Langdons Road), with your own gloves and boots/gumboots. For more information see the number on the flyer.