Month: February 2020

QEII Drive will be closed overnight on Tuesday night 11 February and Wednesday night 12 February, between Main North Rd and Innes Rd. Work will start at 9pm both nights and the road will be reopened by 6am the next morning. Traffic will be diverted at Main North Road and the Innes Road roundabout. Click through for more details:
https://www.nzta.govt.nz/…/cnc-qe-drive-project-update-jan-…

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

The Manse Place housing complex in Redwood is on the list for a ‘warm and dry’ upgrade ahead of this winter.

I shared the agenda of a joint meeting of Community Boards to consider the speed limit on Dickeys Road (on the boundary between Papanui and Harewood wards).

Renewal of the Paddington Reserve playground is underway.

I haven’t posted about the Main North Road bus priority project this week, however work is progressing, and I stopped in at the street meeting for Grassmere Street residents on Tuesday afternoon. The general sentiment seemed to be positive about the coming changes to the Grassmere / Main North Road intersection.

Top post of the week was news that Foodstuffs has been granted Resource Consent for their proposed PAK’nSAVE supermarket on Main North Road (by the Northcote / QEII intersection). I’ll publish some further comments on this after reading through the detail of the decision and the revised plans.

I posted a summary of outcomes from the 31 January meeting of the Waipapa/Papanui-Innes Community Board.

Also popular this week were progress photos of the refurbishment of the Graham Condon Recreation & Sport Centre. The gym and sports hall reopened this week, and the pools are due to reopen in April.

In breaking news today, I shared a photo from Councillor Mike Davidson of signage advertising a new pet store coming to the former Briscoes building in Papanui.

Coming up:

• There’ll be overnight closures on QEII Drive on 11 and 12 February. I’ll put up a post about that shortly.
• On 12 February from 6pm to 8pm there’ll be a drop-in information session in Papanui on the Home-share accommodation District Plan review.

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With warm regards
Simon Britten

Pet Central Ltd is coming to the former Briscoes building in Papanui, across the road from Northlands Shopping Centre. With thanks to Mike Davidson – Councillor for Papanui.

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Work on the Graham Condon Recreation & Sport Centre is progressing. The gym and sports hall reopened this week. There’s more being done to the pools, which are due to reopen in April.

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At the 31 January meeting, the Waipapa/Papanui-Innes Community Board: received a briefing on 10 Shirley Road / Shirley Community Reserve, including the modular pump track to be installed there; approved applications to the Board’s Discretionary Response Fund and Youth Development Fund; and received an area report on initiatives and issues current within the Community Board area. Click through for the full minutes. The Board will next meet at 9:15am on Friday 21 February.
https://christchurch.infocouncil.biz/…/PICB_20200131_MIN_44…

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Foodstuffs has received Resource Consent for their proposed PAK’nSAVE supermarket at the Main North Rd / Northcote Rd / QEII Dr intersection. The decision reads: “For the reasons set out above, and acting under delegated authority on behalf of the Christchurch City Council, consent is hereby granted to Foodstuffs South Island Limited to:

a. establish, operate and maintain a supermarket and associated fuel facility, offices, car parking, access, signage and landscaping at 171 Main North Road;
b. provide an emergency coordination facility at 171 Main North Road;
c. alter the existing site access and relocate existing carparking for the Foodstuffs South Island Head Office at 165 Main North Road; and
d. alter access and relocate existing carparking arrangements for the retail and commercial tenancies located at 3-7 Northcote Road.”

Community Board Chair Emma Norrish has been reading through the decision – see her post for more details and a link through to the documents:
https://www.facebook.com/VoteEmmaNorrish/posts/3274955055853921

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After consultation in March/April 2019, the Waipapa/Papanui-Innes Community Board approved renewal of the playground in Paddington Reserve. Due to the late delivery of one of the new playground items construction has been delayed, but is now underway.

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On Tuesday 4 February the Waipapa/Papanui-Innes Community Board will meet jointly with the Waimāero/Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood Community Board to consider a proposed speed limit change for Dickeys Road – part of a larger speed management plan for Christchurch’s north west. The meeting will start at 4:30pm at the Fendalton Service Centre, and is open for the public to attend. Click through for the agenda:
https://christchurch.infocouncil.biz/…/JM-FA_20200204_AGN_4…

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Papanui Ward’s Manse Place is one of the city’s housing complexes due for a ‘warm and dry’ upgrade. Ahead of this winter there’s a push to get new heat pumps and improved ventilation installed to 909 units across the city. Click through to read more:
https://newsline.ccc.govt.nz/…/push-on-to-install-heat-pump…

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