Nor'West News: February 13, 2018

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Tuesday February 13 2018 3
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Potholes reason for ‘poor’ roads
• By Julia Evans
“THIS IS just totally
unacceptable.”
Those are the words of Papanui-Innes
Community Board
chairwoman Ali Jones, who said
the amount of potholes across
the two wards is too high.
Ms Jones and the board are
lobbying to get signs of the
February 22, 2011, earthquake
removed, saying it has now been
seven years.
“This is just
another part
of our recovery
. . . not to
be looking at
this kind of
thing every
day,” she said.
It comes
Ali Jones
as the board
asked the
city council for advice on what
it can do in terms of dealing
with abandoned and vacant
properties, which are becoming
“eyesores” and risks in terms of
vandalism and arson.
Mayor Lianne Dalziel supported
the idea.
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what the current rules are and
how they’re applied and whether
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look at,” Ms Dalziel said.
Ms Jones said the roads went
hand-in-hand with the abandoned
properties.
“We just want some emphasis
and effort put in around our
pavements and roads,” she said.
Ms Jones said streets in St
Albans around Rugby Park were
particularly poor and were not
planned for repair in the near
future.
But she said it was a wider
issue around the two wards that
were hazards as well as unpleasant
to look at.
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“I think that’s pretty awful
for people to have to be walking
around, walking dogs and driving
past on streets like that,” she
said.
Ms Jones said its about getting
the “basics right” to move on
from the earthquakes.
“I know the pressure the council
is under and the issues around
standards of repair but this is just
unacceptable,” she said.
“It gets worse after rain, we
know that,” she said.
Residents can report potholes
to the city council via its Snap
ROUGH:
Potholes
throughout
the Papanui
and Innes
Wards
are being
targeted
by the
community
board. ​
Send Solve app or by phoning
941 8999.
•HAVE YOUR SAY: Is your
street bad for potholes?
Email your views to julia.
evans@starmedia.kiwi
FAST FACTS:
•The city council
received 994 complaints
in 2017 about potholes.
•It fixed more than
19,000
- It spent more than
$525,000
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VILLAGE MEETING
A meeting of the key stakeholders
in Edgeware Village will be held
at the Mainland Football head
offfice, 127 Cranford St from
6-8pm on February 28. The
discussion will encompass the
Edgeware Village streetscape and
movement improvement project
options and possibility of a trial
for the area.
REVAMP FOR PARK
Work on St Albans Park’s field
revamp and new pavilion is
expected to be complete by July
or August. The city council is
stripping the existing surface,
installing drainage and irrigation,
installing a new playing surface
and building a new toilet and
sports pavilion. The skate park
and flying fox will remain open.
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year which was an all-time high.
However, a number of previous
entrants have decided not to
enter this year’s awards citing age
and health issues. Schools, early
learning centres and community
organisations have continued to
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