Greetings from your Community Board

Highlights from our latest meeting

Our Community Board met on Friday 18 December. Some highlights of our meeting included 
We approved the location and construction of a temporary wayfinding sign at Shirley Community Reserve. The wayfinding trail will connect people with places and projects in Richmond, including the Ōtākaro Avon River trail, the Richmond Community Garden, Avebury House and Adventure Avenue (near Christchurch East School). The proposed wayfinding sign at Shirley Community Reserve is the beginning of the trail. We also approved plans to relocate a bus stop by 85 North Avon Road. The existing bus stop will be relocated five metres up the road to allow vehicles to safely access the new residential development nearby.

We approved funding for a number of individual and community projects, including a grant from our 2020-21 Youth Development Fund to Jaze Gear-Jones, who will attending the National Youth Touch Championships as a member of the Canterbury U16 Girls Touch team. We also approved funding to Belfast School towards 12 students’ attendance at the Papanui Youth Development’s Trust Leadership Training Course.

We approved a grant of $8,000 from our 2020-21 Discretionary Response Fund to The Neighbourhood Trust as a contribution towards the Whanau Centre and Golden Connections post COVID response and allocated $4,000 from our 2020-2021 Discretionary Response Fund towards Papanui-Innes Community Liaison and events.

We also received our Community Board Area Report for December, which gives us an overview of all the great things going on in our community. You can check out the Waipapa/Papanui-Innes  Community Board Facebook page for more information, read the minutes to see more details on the above items and what else we discussed and find out the dates, times and details of upcoming Community Board and Council meetings here. 

Looking back at 2020 and forward to 2021

*Written by Emma Norrish, Chair of the Waipapa/Papanui-Innes Community Board.

Come this time of year, it’s good to reflect on the past 12 months - and what a year it has been!  Who would’ve thought the year would turn out the way it has? 

It has been a busy time for our Board, starting with finalising our 2020-2022 Community Board Plan.  We appreciate all the feedback we got during the consultation phase of this plan, and we hope it reflects both the community’s and the Board’s priorities for the next two years. 

Despite our formal meetings being cancelled during lockdown, we continued to meet via Zoom and still received briefings and updates from staff. We kept up to date with what our community organisations were doing throughout lockdown, and it was fantastic to hear of the amazing work happening to support those in need.  We were able to further support these hard-working groups during our annual Strengthening Communities Funding process, which was especially important this year.

Highlights of the year have been the opening of the modular pump track at 10 Shirley Rd, and the start of the St Albans Community Centre rebuild.  We look forward to opening this new building early next year, and to continuing to working with the community on further activation of 10 Shirley Rd with $15,000 funding we have ring-fenced.

Traffic issues have also been a focus for us this year, as we continue working to mitigate the downstream effects of the Christchurch Northern Corridor, as well as addressing issues around Northlands and the new Northlink development.

The start of 2021 will see us focusing our attention on Council’s Long Term Plan 2021-2031, which will go out for consultation in February.  Please do try and get involved in this engagement, as this document sets out the Council’s budget for the next 10 years and will play a big part in shaping the future of our city. 

Until then, have a safe and relaxing holidays, and we look forward to being in touch again early next year!

Ngā mihi o te Kirihimete me te Tau Hou.

Emma Norrish

Christchurch Northern Corridor officially open

Thanks to everyone who came along to the opening of the Christchurch Northern Corridor on Saturday. It was great to see so many people enjoying the new space. 

Neighbours celebrate Summer thanks to grant

Here's a photo from a very happy bunch of neighbours in the Redwood area.
The group have used Summer with your Neighbours grant funding from the Papanui-Innes Community Board for the past five years to organise their neighbourhood gathering. 
They really enjoy the opportunity to get together and look forward to it every year.

Say goodbye to 2020 with The Black Seeds

Christchurch’s family-friendly New Year’s Eve celebration will ensure that you end 2020 with a spectacular bang. The Edge NYE20 party is being held in North Hagley Park and will be headlined by Kiwi music legends The Black Seeds.

The event starts at 6pm with a special kids’ countdown held at 8pm, before The Black Seeds take to the stage at 11pm to bring in the New Year.

Christchurch Northern Corridor now open

The motorway and shared path is open in time for Christmas, and a close eye will be kept on traffic volumes in the St Albans, Edgeware and Mairehau areas.

What can you recycle at Christmas?

Don’t let the growing mound of packaging, wrapping paper, broken decorations and empty bottles get on top of you this Christmas. Use these helpful tips to make the right decisions about what to do with your festive waste.

Disposing of Christmas gift unwrapping

• You can put cardboard or paper left behind after Christmas presents have been unwrapped into the yellow wheelie bin as long as it is bigger in size than an envelope and doesn’t have a plastic coating.
• If you’re uncertain try the tear test. If your Christmas wrapping paper tears it is paper and can be recycled.  If it doesn't tear, put it in the red bin.

Excess food

• Food scraps (including chicken and turkey bones) and any left-overs you no longer can use can be disposed of in the green organics wheelie bin.

Getting rid of unwanted Christmas gifts

• If you have unwanted Christmas gifts, think about taking them to a charity shop or one of the EcoDrop recycling centres.  You can find out more about what items are accepted at EcoDrop centres here.

Opening hours and services over the Christmas holidays

Check when you need to put your wheelie bins out over the Christmas holidays and find out about opening hours at pools, libraries, fitness centres and other Christchurch City Council facilities.