Year: 2021

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is consulting on a new rule relating to speed management planning. One aspect of this is a proposal for speed limits will be reduced to 30 km/h (or 40 km/h in some circumstances) around urban schools and a maximum of 60 km/h around rural schools. These speed limits could either be permanent or variable, and controlling authorities such as the Council would be required to introduce an initial 40% of these limits by 30 June 2024, and to use reasonable efforts to complete the remaining by 31 December 2029.

You have probably seen 40 km/h restrictions around schools in the Papanui area. If you have a view on the current proposal, submissions can be made until 5pm on Friday 25 June 2021. Click through for more information and an online submission form:
https://www.nzta.govt.nz/about-us/consultations/land-transport-rule-setting-of-speed-limits-2021-consultation/

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The Waipapa/Papanui-Innes Community Board will meet this Friday at 9am in the Papanui boardroom. The agenda includes:

• • proposed renaming of two reserves in the Board area;
  • a proposed ground lease to eCan for an air quality monitoring station at English Park;
  • and three applications to the Board’s Discretionary Response Fund.

The meeting is open for the public to attend and will be streamed on the Board’s Facebook page. Click through for the full agenda:
https://christchurch.infocouncil.biz/Open/2021/05/PICB_20210507_AGN_5616_AT_WEB.htm

Agenda of Waipapa/Papanui-Innes Community Board – 7 May 2021

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The Council is seeking feedback on its Representation Review initial proposal. The Representation Review is a process the Council completes every six years, to review things like how many elected members will represent you, Ward boundaries and the make-up of Community Boards. Part of the reason for doing this is to ensure each Ward represents a similar number of people, with a need to adjust boundaries to account for population changes throughout the city.

The Council’s initial proposal is to keep the current system of 16 Wards each electing a single Councillor, and to reduce the number of urban Community Boards from six to five, with each comprising three Wards. Under the current proposal, the Papanui-Innes area would be represented by a new Community Board comprising of the Papanui, Innes and Central Wards. Click through for more information and to give feedback:
https://ccc.govt.nz/the-council/consultations-and-submissions/haveyoursay/show/396

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Anzac Day 2021: Services, events, displays and exhibitions in Christchurch

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When you walk down the quiet and leafy streets of Papanui, you might be surprised to see a big green sign directing you to a new Whare on Windermere Road. The sign belongs to Te Ora Hou Ōtautahi, who you may also be surprised to learn have been supporting rangatahi (young people) and whānau (families) in Ōtautahi for almost 40 years.

The 40 kaimahi (staff) of Te Ora Hou’s specialist team have supported thousands of Māori and Pasifika in Ōtautahi to complete the journey from Tamariki tū Rangatahi tū Rangatira (childhood into adulthood) in a safe and healthy way.

The aim is to begin a process of intergenerational change, disrupting negative cycles and helping to guide young people to realise their own potential – as good neighbours, employees, parents, family members and valued members of the wider community.

Te Ora Hou can represent a final chance for some rangatahi to take control of their own destiny, and carve out a path free from crime, violence and abuse and no one knows this better than seventeen-year-old Manahi, who states “I literally would be in jail right now if it wasn’t for Te Ora Hou – I know that.”

Manahi started getting in trouble at a young age and was on a bad path. “The way I was heading, getting in trouble every day, my mentality was I’m just going to end up in jail. The majority of people in my family were in and out, and I just wanted to be like them.” Continue reading “Development underway in Papanui for Māori youth and whānau”

At the 16 April meeting, the Waipapa/Papanui-Innes Community Board:

• • heard from residents impacted by traffic calming measures being trialled downstream of the CNC;
  • requested a report with advice concerning the name ‘Gulati Lane’ for a development in Hills Road;
  • received a briefing from St Albans School students on their Innovating Streets Project;
  • approved four grants from the Board’s Discretionary Response Fund;
  • and received an area report on issues and initiatives within the Board area.

The Board will next meet on Friday 7 May.

Click through to read the full minutes:
https://christchurch.infocouncil.biz/Open/2021/04/PICB_20210416_MIN_5615_AT.PDF

 

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The Papanui RSA ANZAC parade and service is this Sunday 25 April. The parade commences at 9:30am and the service at the RSA at 10am. Click through for more details:

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Around 60 people turned out to Kohinga St Albans Community Centre tonight to hear from Duncan Webb Labour MP for Christchurch Central on housing and urban development in Christchurch, and specifically the National Policy Statement on Urban Development (NPS-UD). The Council is legally required to give effect to the NPS-UD, and it is anticipated that the community will be formally consulted next year on any proposed District Plan changes in relation to building heights and density. The NPS-UD stipulates that any plan changes need to be publicly notified for submissions by August 2022. Tonight’s meeting was hosted by the St Albans Residents Association.

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