Community engagement in the Papanui Ward in Christchurch, New Zealand
Mitre 10 MEGA Papanui has a birthday celebration this weekend! Check out their Facebook post or page for details.
We’d love you and the family to come down and help us celebrate our 7th birthday this weekend.
From 10am-2pm both tomorrow and Sunday we’ll have ‘fishing’ for ducks (and prizes)
Free sausage sizzle
In store treasure hunt
Balloon twister
Bouncy castle
Hororata Highland Games with their tugging rig
And a colouring in competition
Oh and did we mention there is also coffee inside?
The Waipapa Papanui-Innes-Central Community Board will meet this Thursday at 4pm in the Papanui Boardroom.
The agenda includes: a new lease for the Marist Harewood Cricket Club at Redwood Park for the club’s pavilion; forty Summer with your Neighbours grants totalling $4,500; an application to the Board’s Discretionary Response Fund by the City Park Community Patrol; and an area report on initiatives and issues within the Board area.
The meeting is open for the public to attend and will be livestreamed on the Board’s YouTube channel and Facebook page.
The Nor’West Arc cycleway will (eventually) link Papanui through to Canterbury University and beyond. Work will start next week on the section from the University to Aorangi Road – see the Council’s Newsline story for information on traffic impacts including detour routes. Progress on the section of Aorangi Road between Ilam Road and Brookside Terrace will be delayed following a Council decision yesterday to consider a design change. The Papanui end of the project requires additional funding to be found through the Long Term Plan process and will not be built this financial year.
Papanui Pet Service: St Paul’s Anglican Church, Papanui will hold a Pet’s Service this Sunday 10 September – people are invited to bring their live animals as well as pictures of past pets, animal toys etc to participate and receive a blessing. For more information see the Facebook Page or stpaulspapanui.org.nz/events/pet-service
Signs of progress: construction has begun on the missing sections of the Northern Line cycleway. This photo looks north from Barnes Road and shows the future path to Main North Road at the Belfast bridge. Work between Tuckers and Sturrocks Roads is also getting underway. These sections are planned to be completed by mid 2024.
The Christchurch Northern Community Market is back this Saturday 26 August, from 10am-2pm at the Redwood Hotel, 340 Main North Road. See the market’s Facebook page for more information.
Two new bus routes will begin operating in Christchurch from Monday 4 September. At that time the current routes 17 and 28 will cease operation and be replaced by new routes 8 and 27. In the Papanui area, the number 27 will follow the same route as the old number 28, but at a higher frequency (20 minutes on weekdays until 6pm), and south of the bus exchange the service will head to Huntsbury rather than the number 28’s destination of Lyttelton. For more details see the Ecan news release or head to the Metro website.
Papanui High School Adult and Community Education still has spaces in Term 3 cake decorating classes, as well as in a range of subjects including Arts & Crafts, Exercise & Heath, and Languages. See Facebook or papanui.school.nz/adult-education for more details.
On Thursday 10 August, the Waipapa Papanui-Innes-Central Community Board:
Click through to read the full minutes. The Board will next meet on Thursday 14 September.
https://christchurch.infocouncil.biz/Open/2023/08/PCBCC_20230810_MIN_9118_AT.PDF
Construction of the missing sections of the Northern Line Cycleway linking Papanui through to Northwood is due to commence on 21 August 2023. Unfortunately KiwiRail has advised there’ll be further delays to upgraded pedestrian & cycle crossings adjacent to the railway line on Sawyers Arms, Langdons, and Harewood Roads. See more in this post from Think Papanui curator Simon Britten:
Good news: construction is due to start later this month on missing sections of the Northern Line Cycleway, between Tuckers & Sturrocks Roads and from Barnes Road to Main North Road. A start work notice is due to be delivered to nearby residents and businesses, and can also be found at the link below.
Not so good news: railway crossing upgrades at Sawyers Arms, Langdons, and Harewood roads were provisionally booked for November 2023 but the Council has now been notified by KiwiRail that the earliest possible time for these upgrades will be July 2024.