The Star: September 15, 2016

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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.
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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.
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