Community engagement in the Papanui Ward in Christchurch, New Zealand
The latest newsletter from the Waipapa/Papanui-Innes Community Board includes: highlights from the Board’s latest meeting; the opening of Kohinga, the St Albans Community Centre; news on wastewater renewals in the area; and more. Click through for the newsletter:
http://createsend.com/t/r-B9F845B5D99002912540EF23F30FEDED
Papanui Library is open from 10am to 4pm today Monday 26 April – one of five Christchurch City Libraries that are open today. Click through for more details:
https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/anzac-day-2021-services-events-displays-and-exhibitions-in-christchurch/
Anzac Day 2021: Services, events, displays and exhibitions in Christchurch
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:
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
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:
https://www.facebook.com/events/286651332957226/
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.
Term 2 classes with Papanui High School Adult and Community Education are open for enrolment now. See the link in this post for more information on Food & Cooking classes, as well as Arts & Crafts, Music, Languages, and more:
Papanui High School is offering two Indian Cooking classes for Term 2 both taught by Radhika Naidu. There is an Indian Cooking Made Easy Course which will teach you easy budget friendly recipes to enable you to cook Indian Food in your own kitchen. The other class is focussed on Cooking Indian Street Food. For further information and enrolment in these classes please visit our website https://www.papanui.school.nz/com-edu/category/food-cooking or email Barbara Roper rpb@papanui.school.nz or telephone our office on 0335207011
The period for public submissions on the Draft 2021–31 Long Term Plan ends at midnight on Sunday 18 April. “You don’t need to have an opinion on every issue – if there’s just one pet project you want a say on, or one idea you’ve had for how ratepayer money could be spent or saved over the next few years, we encourage you to let us know right up until Sunday,” the Mayor says. Click through to read more, and for an online submission form:
https://newsline.ccc.govt.nz/news/story/time-running-out-for-long-term-plan-submissions
Last year the first of 40,000 kahikatea trees were planted in the Cranford Basin. There’s another planting day coming up on Saturday 29 May if you’d like to contribute. See the Facebook event for more details:
The Waipapa/Papanui-Innes Community Board will meet this Friday 16 April at 9am in the Papanui boardroom. The agenda includes: public forum presentations on Cranford/Innes intersection safety and Flockton Street traffic volumes & speeds; a proposed request for staff to investigate revoking the name ‘Gulati Lane’ for a development in Mairehau; a briefing on the St Albans School innovating streets project; four applications to the Board’s Discretionary Response Fund; and an area report on initiatives and issues current within the Community Board area. The meeting is open for the public to attend and will be livestreamed on the Board’s Facebook page. Click through to read the full agenda:
https://christchurch.infocouncil.biz/Open/2021/04/PICB_20210416_AGN_5615_AT_WEB.htm
Agenda of Waipapa/Papanui-Innes Community Board – 16 April 2021