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The Star follow us on facebook.com/riseupchristchurch Thursday September 15 2016 7 For more local news, watch CTV News with Jared McCulloch News Frustration over church repairs • By Tom Doudney SIX YEARS after the September 2010 earthquake, the Hororata community is still in the dark about when its badly damaged heritage church will be restored. When the 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit, the bell tower of St John’s Anglican Church toppled and fell through the roof. Hororata Community Trust trustee Olive Webb said many in the community had expressed frustration with the lack of visible progress on fixing the church. “After the earthquake this building was surrounded by people from the community, some of whom were regular church goers and some weren’t, who were weeping at the destruction of the church,” she said. “We are constantly asked: ‘What’s the time frame, what’s happening?’ and all we can tell them is that we are waiting on a response from [the Church Property Trustees].” HCT has put a proposal to the Church Property Trust on how they can work together towards restoring the church. HCT sees its role as fundraising and helping to determine the specifications of the repair, in SORRY SIGHT: The inside of the church after the September 2010 earthquake. PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER PATCHED UP: The damaged bell tower and roof of St John’s Anglican Church in Hororata have been covered for now but the timeline for restoration remains unknown. consultation with the community. Hororata vicar Jenni Carter community life.” A Church Property Trustees said there had been a lot of spokesman declined to answer work done behind the scenes on specific questions about how the future of the church. much the restoration was “The parish is all about people, it’s not about buildings and expected to cost and how much the church would pay, when there is progress being made on restoration might take place the stone church, you just can’t and the availability of insurance funds for the building. Hororata Cafe and Wine Bar see it.” The repair was “very complex,” the spokesman said. church remained at the heart of owner Jarnia Kupe said the “The trustees look forward the community and its restoration was an important issue for as the community does to St John’s church again being a locals. vibrant part of the church and “It’s better to be done properly [rather than quickly] so as a local resident it’s sad in a sense that nothing has happened yet but also there is a lot to be done to bring it up to standard so you kind of accept that.” Hororata parishioner Kate Foster said the congregation had not suffered from the loss of the church as it had the use of the smaller wooden church but she would like to see the stone church restored for heritage reasons. •Hororata Games, p20, 21 Mon-Fri bulletins: 5.30pm, repeats at 7pm and 9.30pm Freeview 40 | Live and on demand at ctv.co.nz | facebook.com/canterburytv In Brief NEW SUBDIVISIONS Six new subdivisions will be developed in Halswell to cope with a predicted population explosion. The new subdivisions will be developed in north, western, south, south-east, south-west areas of Halswell and in the Hendersons area. In 2013 the population level in Halswell was recorded by a Statistics New Zealand census at 20,400 and is expected to grow to 48,400 by 2043. DUST CONCERNS Testing has shown that dust around Yaldhurst has exceeded air pollution guidelines on 16 occasions and is associated with quarry activities. Environment Canterbury conducted tests around the quarrying area from December 23 through to April 26 with the final report released recently. Eight of the exceedances were recorded at two of the sites located on West Coast Rd, downwind from the quarries. EXPANSION PLANS The Elmwood Club is looking to do a major expansion of its facilities by building on a nearby school. The Ministry of Education and the club have a verbal contract allowing the club to build a “major sporting hub” on land that belongs to Heaton Normal Intermediate on Heaton St. SCIRT programme on the home straight SCIRT’s five year programme of repairs to pipes, roads, bridges and retaining walls across the city is almost complete and we’re aiming to finish construction in December. The City Council and NZ Transport Agency will continue completing ongoing repairs to the city's earthquake-damaged infrastructure after SCIRT. What’s happening with some major projects: • We’re almost finished connecting homes in Aranui to their new resilient vacuum wastewater system. Storm water and roading work will continue until the end of the year. • We’re more than two thirds through extensive repairs to the wastewater, storm water, fresh water and roading networks in Parklands. • We’ve repaired or rebuilt more than 100 bridges: • Durham Street Overbridge repairs are now finished. • The historic Helmore’s Lane Bridge reopened to pedestrians and cyclists on 5 September after major rebuilding. • Gloucester Street Bridge demolition work is done, reconstructing the bridge is well underway and the deck is almost finished. • Lyttelton is still busy with ongoing retaining wall repairs, underground pipe and roading repairs. • Repairs to the wastewater networks in Fendalton, Strowan, Papanui and Bryndwr are due to finish at the end of September. Your support is helping us to get the job done. Thank you from the SCIRT team. Want more info? Email: info@scirt.co.nz Phone: 941 8999 Find out about work in your area: www.scirt.co.nz Email us on: info@scirt.co.nz to get our: Weekly Traffic Update Monthly e-Newsletter Follow us on Twitter: @SCIRT_info #chchtraffic • Harith Barakat, Site Engineer on the Gloucester Street Bridge, with SCIRT’s Fletcher team. Programme funded by
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