Community engagement in the Papanui Ward in Christchurch, New Zealand
This Christmas season there will be no change to wheelie bin collection days. Click through for details of opening hours for Council services, including libraries, service centres, recreation & sport centres, and more:
https://newsline.ccc.govt.nz/news/story/opening-hours-and-services-over-christmas-2
Christmas hours: Northlands Shopping Centre is open 9am to 10pm daily through to this Thursday 23 December, then 9am-6pm on both Christmas Eve and Boxing Day. Click through for more information:
https://www.kiwiproperty.com/northlands/en/news/story/christmas-hours-your-way
The last Christchurch Northern community Market will take place this Saturday from 10am at Northcote Primary School on Tuckers Road.
See the Facebook event for details.
Wednesday 15 December: Stay safe tonight and out of the weather if you can. Keep an eye on this Council page for updates including news on road closures and impacts on kerbside rubbish collection:
https://newsline.ccc.govt.nz/news/story/christchurch-and-banks-peninsula-flooding-latest-info
Consultation reminder: a proposal for pedestrian crossing points on Langdons Road is open for feedback until 13 December. Click through for more details and an online feedback form:
https://ccc.govt.nz/the-council/haveyoursay/show/475
The Waipapa/Papanui-Innes Community Board’s 2022 meeting schedule has been “slashed” from a possible 14 to 8 ordinary meetings between February and September. The Board has also decided that monthly briefings through the same period will include a thirty minute live-streamed public forum. Click through to read more in today’s Nor’West News, or see Think Papanui’s previous post for more details of last week’s Board meeting:
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/66034374/norwest-news-december-09-2021
At the 3 December meeting, the Waipapa/Papanui-Innes Community Board: received public forum presentations on a St Albans innovating streets project and on cycleway issues in the Cranford & Rutland Street area; approved a grant from the Board’s Youth Development Fund; adopted a meeting schedule for 2022; appointed a recess committee for the December to February period; and received an area report on issues and initiatives within the Board area. The next ordinary meeting of the Board will be on Friday 18 February 2022. Click through to read the full minutes:
https://christchurch.infocouncil.biz/Open/2021/12/PICB_20211203_MIN_5630_AT_WEB.htm
There’ll be minor changes to the boundaries of Papanui Ward for the 2022 election, and the local Community Board will change from Papanui-Innes to be the Waipapa/Papanui-Innes-Central Community Board, with two board members and one councillor elected from each of the three Wards. Click through for more information:
https://newsline.ccc.govt.nz/news/story/representation-arrangements-for-local-elections-confirmed
The Christchurch Northern community Market is on today Saturday 4 December from 10am to 3pm at Northcote Primary School. After today there’ll only be one more market day before Christmas.
Consultation reminder: Environment Canterbury’s review of Bus Routes 17 and 28 closes this Sunday 5 December. Click through for more information and to have your say on proposals to rework these two routes, to remove the 125 stop at the airport terminal, and to consider purchasing electric buses in the future:
https://haveyoursay.ecan.govt.nz/bus-route-review-17-and-28
