Month: March 2023

The Council’s Annual Plan process is the way that the budget is set for the next financial year, including what will be spent on project and services, and where the money will come from. Click through for more information, including a link to the detailed plan and and online feedback form. Hard copies of the plan are also available at Council libraries and service centres.

There are a number of large events happening around the city this weekend. If you’re on the move it will pay to keep an eye out for changed traffic patterns and road closures & restrictions. See this Facebook post from the Council for more information.

The March newsletter from the Waipapa/Papanui-Innes-Central Community Board includes highlights from the latest Board meeting, information on the Board’s draft plan and the Council’s draft annual plan, and more. Click through for the full newsletter, which you can also subscribe to by email: https://createsend.com/t/r-38EA5F1B806E12072540EF23F30FEDED

The Waipapa/Papanui-Innes-Central Community Board has developed a draft three-year plan that sets out the Board’s vision and priorities for the local community. The plan, along with those drafted by Christchurch’s other Community Boards, is now open for feedback until 26 March 2023.

Click through for more information, including an online version of the plan and a feedback form: https://www.ccc.govt.nz/the-council/haveyoursay/show/580

Following a request made by Think Papanui under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act (LGOIMA), the Christchurch City Council has released a presentation and video relating to the Wheels to Wings – Papanui ki Waiwhetū cycleway. The information released had been presented to Councillors at a closed-door briefing in February 2023, ahead of decision-making on the potential deferral of a number of transport projects, including this one¹.

The text accompanying the information release was as follows: “The presentation from 14 February 2023 is attached. A redacted version of the video presented at the briefing is attached. We have taken this approach as a number of bystanders are identifiable (including school children). The attached video shows the main pinchpoints that were highlighted at the briefing“

Presentation

The presentation is posted here in full as received from the Council.

Video

The video is posted here in full as received from the Council. Note that as mentioned above, the video was redacted prior to release to Think Papanui.

Footnotes

1. See item 14 (Climate Emergency Response Fund (Transport Choices) – Decision over how to Progress) in the agenda and minutes of the 22 February 2023 meeting of the Council’s Finance and Performance Committee. The outcome of the meeting was that the Wheels to Wings cycleway was not included in the list of projects to be deferred by one year.

On Thursday 9 March, the Waipapa Papanui-Innes-Central Community Board:

• received four public forum presentations;
• approved four traffic and parking agenda items;
• approved the scheme design and other changes associated with traffic light and intersection layouts for the new PAK’nSAVE on Main North Road;
• approved two grants from the Board’s Discretionary Response Fund;
• received the report from the Electoral Officer on the recent by-election;
• and received an area report on issues and initiatives in the Board area.

Ali Jones was also sworn in as a Community Board member following the recent by-election.

The Board will next meet on Thursday 13 April. Click through to read the full minutes: https://christchurch.infocouncil.biz/Open/2023/03/PCBCC_20230309_MIN_9113_AT.PDF

The Waipapa/Papanui-Innes-Central Community Board will meet on Thursday 9 March 2023 at 4pm in the Papanui Boardroom. The agenda includes:

• swearing-in of Ali Jones as a Community Board member following the recent by-election;
• public participation;
• changes to parking restrictions at four locations in the Ward;
• new traffic lights for Main North Road outside the new PAK’nSAVE (pic), and changes to the Main North Road / Northcote / QEII intersection;
• two applications to the Board’s Discretionary Response Fund;
• a report from the Electoral Officer on the by-election;
• and an area report on issues and initiatives in the Community Board area.

The meeting is open for the public to attend and video will be available via the Board’s YouTube channel and Facebook page. Click through for the full agenda: https://christchurch.infocouncil.biz/Open/2023/03/PCBCC_20230309_AGN_9113_AT_WEB.htm

The Christchurch Northern Community Market is on every Saturday from 9am to 2pm at the Redwood Hotel, 340 Main North Road. Free stalls are available to children up to year 8.

Wheels to Wings update: further to last week’s news that the the Wheels to Wings – Papanui ki Waiwhetū major cycle route survived a proposed deferral, this week the Council voted not to commence construction of the route “…for a period of up to 12 months to allow staff and local Councillors to work further with the affected communities on previously identified design concerns as part of the detailed design process.” Note that today’s article in The Star (pictured below) reflects last week’s decision not to defer rather than this week’s decision not to construct.

Think Papanui understands that prior to the recent decision-making Councillors had a closed-door briefing on the Wheels to Wings, including why staff did not recommend deferring the project. A copy of the briefing has been requested under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act but it has not yet been released by the Council.