Community engagement in the Papanui Ward in Christchurch, New Zealand
It looks like Northcote Road at the railway crossing will be closed for roadworks for the weekend from the evening of Friday 1 Feb through to the morning of Monday 4 Feb. There is some information about this on the following NZTA ‘traffic updates’ page: https://
The Waipapa/ Papanui Innes Community Board today recieved the draft CNC Downstream Effects Mitigation Plan and recommended that the full council receive it, and for staff to undertake consultation on the plan's recommendations. Click through for a Press article with more information:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/…/race-to-ready-christchurchs-cranf…
Race to ready Christchurch’s Cranford St before new motorway is built
Concern neighbourhoods won't be ready for influx of cars flooding Christchurch's new northern motorway.
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Here are a couple of photos of the Windermere rest home site as viewed from the Condell Avenue side. Clearly not a small development.
Last year's Council consultation on the draft Suburban Parking Policy drew a modest 67 responses. On Monday this week a hearings panel received the submissions and heard from those who wished to be heard in person. The panel has recommended a Suburban Parking Policy with a "stronger focus on mobility needs and parking management", including support for newer transport forms such as scooters.
Link to the hearings panel agenda, which includes a summary as well as full details of all submissions: http://christchurch.infocouncil.biz/…/BLHP_20190121_AGN_351…
More information at: https://ccc.govt.nz/news-and-events/newsline/show/3310
Shifting gears on suburban parking
A Hearings Panel has recommended that the Christchurch City Council introduces a Suburban Parking Policy with a stronger focus on mobility needs and parking management.
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Long post: notes from a review of the draft CNC Downstream Effects Mitigation Plan. This is a 100+ page draft document which is included in the agenda for this Friday’s Community Board meeting (link below).
Selected points from the draft plan:
– a ‘do nothing’ approach to downstream effects will result in rat-running on ‘a lot’ of local streets and other significant negative impacts.
– a range of options have been analysed including Barbadoes & Madras Streets having clearways, or being 3-laned, or made one-way as far as Warrington Street.
– clearways or permanent 4-laning of Cranford / Sherborne Streets was also considered.
– community impacts of changes was the highest-weighted of the criteria that each option was measured against.
– safety in relation to schools, cycling, and access to parks and commercial centres was also considered.
– proposed projects & studies have been prioritised into Stage 1 (before the CNC opens), Stage 2 (within 3 years of the CNC opening), and Stage 3 (by 2031).
The full list of proposals is too long to include in this post. It includes:
Continue reading “More on the draft CNC Downstream Effects Mitigation Plan”
The Waipapa/Papanui-Innes Community Board will meet this Friday 25 January at 9am in the Papanui board room. This meeting has been called two weeks ahead of the first meeting on the 2019 schedule adopted at the board’s last meeting in 2018. The agenda includes: a staff recommendation that the Board endorse the draft Christchurch Northern Corridor Downstream Effects Mitigation Plan ‘for staff to undertake consultation on the recommendations contained within the plan’; an application to the Board’s Discretionary Response Fund; an application to the Board’s Positive Youth Development Fund; and an area report on initiatives and issues current within the Community Board area. Click the link below for the full agenda.
(NB the full text (100+ pages) of the Downstream Effects Mitigation Plan is included in the agenda, which is also available as a PDF download from the Council’s website. Look out for more to come on the content of this plan.)
http://christchurch.infocouncil.biz/…/PICB_20190125_AGN_350…
Agenda of Waipapa/Papanui-Innes Community Board – 25 January 2019
At the end of 2018, it was reported that the next meeting of the Waipapa/Papanui-Innes Community Board would be on 8 February 2019, however it appears to have been brought forward to this Friday, possibly to coincide with the release of the draft Northern Corridor Downstream Effects Management Plan. Follow this link for more information on what’s being proposed, including peak period clearways along part of Cranford Street, intersection upgrades, and additional traffic lights.
https://ccc.govt.nz/news-and-events/newsline/show/3301
Plan for managing northern motorway traffic released
“A raft of roading changes are being recommended for the Cranford Street area ahead of the opening of a new northern motorway extension that will cut travel times in and out of Christchurch.”
On Monday evenings from 18 February for six weeks there’s a Teen Years parenting course running in the Papanui area. Click through for more information…
Construction work is underway at the Windermere rest home site. In 2016 & 2017 Think Papanui reported on the contested Resource Consent application for this rebuild & expansion. The original proposal was for a two and three-storey facility with 151 rooms and units, and for the 25 villas currently remaining on the site to be demolished – it isn't clear what changes (if any) were made to that design in order to gain Resource Consent.
Reminder: entries for the Papanui-Innes Edible Garden Awards close on 25 January 2019. Entry forms are available at the Library or online at https://
