Year: 2019

Papanui community organisation builds new facilities

Papanui-based Te Ora Hou Otautahi has commenced a building project that will see a massive improvement in the quality of their facilities. The Windermere Road site has been used for education purposes since Loreto College was founded in 1930, and is now a base for Te Ora Hou staff who work in our community, where activities including their Alternative Education programme is run, and which will cater for a range of community events and activities. These images give a sense of how the project will look when completed next year.





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Recap: the week ended 20 September

Think Papanui’s curator Simon Britten rounds up stories from the past week:

Last Saturday I attended the St Silas plant and book sale and shot a brief live video to encourage the community to call in. It’s all finished now but you can still watch the video if you’d like to see what you missed (and I expect it’ll be on again at some stage in the future) – this video was Think Papanui’s top post of the week on the Facebook page.

I shared the video version of last week’s news recap. You can catch these on YouTube each weekend.

I shared the outcome of the joint meeting of the Papanui-Innes and Linwood-Central-Heathcote Community Boards, which reached a conclusion after considering submissions and the staff report on the Council’s proposed transport projects downstream of the Christchurch Northern Corridor (CNC). The recommendations go before a meeting of the full Council this coming Tuesday 24 September.

There were a number of items on the Council’s agenda on 12 September of particular relevance to the Papanui area. I’ve written an article summarising these, including a link to further analysis of the decision to support traffic lights at the Harewood/Gardiners/Breens intersection.

On Tuesday 17 September we had a ‘meet the candidates’ evening for Papanui Ward Council and Community Board candidates, hosted by the Redwood Business and Residents’ Group.

I posted a summary of outcomes from the 13 September meeting of the Waipapa/Papanui-Innes Community Board.

Voting papers for our local body elections will be delivered in the post from today, 20 September.

Coming up:

  • The Great Library Seed and Plant Swap returns to Papanui Library this Saturday 21 September, from 10am-4pm.
  • On Tuesday 24 September the Council will consider the recommendations from the joint Community Board meeting on the proposed transport projects downstream of the Christchurch Northern Corridor (item 9 on the agenda).

Feedback is always welcome on Think Papanui’s content, either on Facebook or Instagram, or directly to me.
With warm regards
Simon Britten

Council voting papers out from this Friday

Voting papers for Christchurch’s local body elections will be delivered in the post from this Friday 20 September. If you haven’t received yours by Wednesday 25 September, please get in touch with the City Council – click through for details:
https://www.ccc.govt.nz/news-and-events/newsline/show/3908

Keep a look out for your voting papers

“Voting papers for Christchurch’s local body elections should start turning up in people’s letterboxes from this Friday.”

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13 September Board meeting outcomes

At their meeting on 13 September, the Waipapa/Papanui-Innes Community Board: approved the recommended landscape plan for a temporary modular pump track and a table in Shirley Community Reserve; approved no stopping restrictions in the Richmond Area and street renewal for Warden Street; approved $4,000 in 'Summer with your neighbours' funding across 48 applications, mostly for local community BBQs; approved three applications to the Board's Positive Youth Development Fund, and three to the Discretionary Response Fund; and received an area report on initiatives and issues current within the Community Board area. There are no further Board meetings planned until after the upcoming election. Click through to read the full minutes:
https://christchurch.infocouncil.biz/…/PICB_20190913_MIN_32…



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