Author: Simon Britten

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.

Both new sections of the Northern Line Cycleway are now open, providing a continuous route for cyclists and pedestrians from Northwood Boulevard through to Kilmarnock Street in Riccarton. Think Papanui understands that some final signal works are yet to be completed by KiwiRail at the Tuckers Road and Sturrocks Road railway crossings.

For the young (and young at heart): on Friday 31 May from 10:30am there’ll be a performance at Papanui Library by musicians of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, catering especially for 2-6 year olds. See the Facebook event or the libraries website for more information.

On 26 May 2024 between 6-7pm there’ll be a nationwide test of the Emergency Mobile Alert system. The alert will be broadcast from cell towers to about 5 million mobile phones across New Zealand. You don’t need to download an app or subscribe to a service to receive it. For more information, see this post, or head to getready.govt.nz/en/prepared/ema/nationwide-test.

Following a public hearings process, the Council has submitted its “right of reply” document to the Panel which is considering the proposed changes to the District Plan (Plan Change 14).

The Council now proposes that the permitted height in the Papanui commercial centre (and also Riccarton & Hornby) be increased to 32 metres (ten stories). The Council’s Head of Planning and Consents Mark Stevenson says proposed changes to Plan Change 14 have been made in response to submissions, discussions with submitters, and conferencing between experts.

The next step is for the Independent Hearings Panel to deliver a report and recommendations to the Council by 26 July 2024, after which the Council is required to notify a decision by 12 September 2024.

Papanui’s proposed 32m ‘town centre’ zone is shown in cerise on the map below, stretching from Blighs Road to Sawyers Arms Road.

See this article for more info, including a link through to the plan change website: https://newsline.ccc.govt.nz/news/story/final-submissions-filed-for-plan-change-14