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From columnist Mike Yardley:
OPINION: You may recall that last year Christchurch residents trashed the standard of driving in the city in the Quality of Life Survey.
No other major city blasted the prevalence of substandard driving quite like Christchurch.
We seem to be the self-confessed, … View moreFrom columnist Mike Yardley:
OPINION: You may recall that last year Christchurch residents trashed the standard of driving in the city in the Quality of Life Survey.
No other major city blasted the prevalence of substandard driving quite like Christchurch.
We seem to be the self-confessed, self-flagellating dangerous driving capital of New Zealand.
I wouldn’t be surprised if next month’s annual survey results see Christchurch retaining its grip on that inglorious title.
Read Mike's full column here and tell us what you think in the comments below.
We are a non-denominational Christian school that caters for children from Year 1 – 13. Our point of difference - We are a Christ-Centred, student oriented school. Our ‘Why’ is to offer families a holistic education for their children, focusing on Character, Excellence and Service – for … View moreWe are a non-denominational Christian school that caters for children from Year 1 – 13. Our point of difference - We are a Christ-Centred, student oriented school. Our ‘Why’ is to offer families a holistic education for their children, focusing on Character, Excellence and Service – for the glory of God.
Middleton Grange School provides a first-rate general education with academic results of the highest quality, and we do this by providing an environment in which the Biblical truths of Jesus Christ are taught and lived.
We see learning as holistic; it aims to instruct the mind, shape the heart and prepare the hands for service.
We want our young people to critically engage in the rapidly changing society and culture that they live in, in order to be a positive influence and to point others to God by their example.
Whilst we plan to hold our Open Days, please keep an eye on our
website for any Covid-19 updates nearer to the dates.
2023 Enrolments Close
Friday, 17 June 2022 (Y7-13)
Friday, 26 August 2022 (Y1-6)
If your child turns 5 before 21 Nov 2023 and will start school in 2023 you must apply this year
Open Days:
24 & 26 May 2022
We look forward to welcoming you to be part of the Middleton Grange School family – a school community of Special Character!
Please check our website for further information:
www.middleton.school.nz
A NEW GROUP FOR OUR COMMUNITY!
We are relaunching our Community Lunches, but as a new and exciting group, meeting every fortnight.
Social Connect is an opportunity to come together, share good food, and make connections.
Our first Social Connect event will be held on Thursday 5th May at … View moreA NEW GROUP FOR OUR COMMUNITY!
We are relaunching our Community Lunches, but as a new and exciting group, meeting every fortnight.
Social Connect is an opportunity to come together, share good food, and make connections.
Our first Social Connect event will be held on Thursday 5th May at 11:30 am, at our Community House.
So we invite you to be part of a community that sees the potential in everyone.
Social Connect - Fortnightly Thursdays
Starts Thursday 5th May at 11:30 am
Community Focus Trust Community House
136 Springfield Rd, St Albans
Why the ‘Wheels to Wings’ Cycle/Woke-way Won’t Fly!
By affected resident John Stringer.
I’M BEING STALKED! Living on Rutland Street was ruined by a dual cycleway hardly anyone uses. Moving to Harewood Road, Council has followed me with a proposed Wheels to Wings cycleway up my second … View moreWhy the ‘Wheels to Wings’ Cycle/Woke-way Won’t Fly!
By affected resident John Stringer.
I’M BEING STALKED! Living on Rutland Street was ruined by a dual cycleway hardly anyone uses. Moving to Harewood Road, Council has followed me with a proposed Wheels to Wings cycleway up my second home street. It’s a creeping barrage of ideologically driven ‘feel good’ environmentalism that has captured town planning at huge expense.
When I served on the Papanui-Innes community board we were told this cycleway was not a priority and needed no public consultation. It’s first failure –it’s a ‘top-down’ Council imposition on a bemused community. In 2019 the Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood community board wanted it deferred.
Apart from a few dedicated cyclists, it’s not a need. Nothing wrong with cycling –its healthy. But at $301 million for a 101 km cycleway of tax-and-rate-payers’ hard won bling (including NZTA levies), our wallets are unhealthy. (Wheels/Wings is a $19 million portion).
Criticism of ‘Top Down’ is justified when you look at the heavy adjusting going on at the consultation end. More than 1348 submissions and 70 re-designs.
With the west-end closure of Wairakei Road as an exit route to the airport, Harewood Road has been forced to absorb the west-bound traffic. Compressed further by the new Northlinks mall, the light industrial infill along Langdons Road, and the Northlands expansion, Papanui is more congested. Council’s response? Impose scattered 30km speed limits.
Critically, Harewood Road is now the main east-west utility conduit: Ambulance, Police, Fire. They belt up and down with sirens blazing. I know, I live there. A cycleway will only narrow the traffic further. How are these utilities supposed to speed through to emergencies? The problem is proven on Rutland Street. When parents open a street-side car door it blocks the traffic. When the recycling truck works the street, it blocks the traffic. Children use the old footpath, because the cycleway is dangerous with rapid-moving commuter cyclists. Same problem in St James park where dogs and walkers have to dodge speeding bike commuters hurtling down the single slice of asphalt as they join up with the Papanui Parallel cycleway.
Culturally, Papanui has the highest density of mobile retired persons in the city. We also have the largest number of retired and dementia care facilities. Imposing a cycleway along Harewood Road adds complexity to local mobility. Mobility scooters tracking down a footpath from the many retirement centers will have to negotiate a cycle strip before they cross the road. It’s already a much busier road, so they’ll have to run a gauntlet of fast-moving cyclists as well as cars coming either way. Double-jeopardy!
And then there’s the wheelie bins. Look at Rutland Street and you’ll see the monumental design failure. Any nor’west gale bin dislodgement and the $4.2million per/km cycleway is completely unfit for purpose. There was shock by residents when the western feeder cycleway was at $2.5 million per km. Will local Harewood Road residents start protesting with the placement of their wheelie bins?
Papanui Cr. Mike Davidson is one of the strongest advocates of big-spend cycleways. Disingenuously, he campaigned in recent years on bringing rates down. The reality is, he’s only ever advocated rates increases. In 2016 he promised “to keep annual rates increases below inflation by cutting non-core spending.” Columnist Mike Yardley was scathing in a column in The Press on 1 March throwing Davidson’s words back at him… “He has failed to walk that talk.” Taxpayers’ Union CEO Jordan Williams also criticised the Papanui Cr. for “a severe lack of self-awareness to describe rates as not a major burden on households.” Chris Lynch also chimed in, “[Davidson’s] comments appear at odds with his re-election campaign.” This month the Cr. controversially backed an $8.6 million increase in the Heathcote Expressway; a 65 % increase while the Harewood and Waimairi Cr.s fought back.
Well-known Papanui champion and fellow Harewood Road resident Yvonne Palmer is unhappy with the lack of consultation and told me the proposal is “not safe because of too many infills.” I agree. It was a ‘Claytons’ consultation from the beginning. The initial brochure was a fait accompli (“Sheet 14; Harewood Rd…safe cycleway coming to your area”). It only asked residents which design option they preferred, not whether they wanted it. That’s not choice but design-by-stealth.
Northside Harewood Road residents will lose their on-street parking, as have many on Langdons Rd (“On-street parking next to the cycleway will be removed” Sheet 14, p. 2). While on the local community board, Cr. Pauline Cotter (Innes) and I spent quite a few votes trying to haul back ever-increasing yellow no parking paint jobs across our community streets.
With a scary escalating cost-of-living, are Papanui fixed-income earners salivating to build more cycleways? There are already thousands of meters of cycleway in the area, some of it parallel and only a few blocks apart. Northern Line; Northern Motorway Cyclepath; Papanui Parallel. How much more do we need?
There are no flocks of cyclists commuting from the airport (Wings) up Harewood Rd (Wheels) to Northlands Mall. Cr. Keown has been largely re-elected on his community-driven campaign to get more safety at the Harewood–Breens Rds intersection. The cycle proposal just adds more complication and expense. The result is, locals now fill up the side streets (Chapel, Sails, Hoani Streets) with parking. Council’s response? A proposal to block off more side streets. Options to move north from Harewood Road are shrinking. Traffic is forced eastward into the bottleneck of the Library/Papanui High School/Mitre 10/Railway crossing.
The community is tired of ‘feel good’ ideological tinkering within residential communities. They want the footpaths repaired and road congestion alleviated. Wheels to Wings is a theoretical construct to make us feel bad using cars. Christchurch is a seasonal city. It’s not Florida. We have southerlies, and black ice winters. We don’t have the density of Amsterdam where it makes sense to cycle. We’re more like a semi-rural provincial UK city like Surrey but with New York style escalating costs-of-living driven by unnecessary ‘feel goods’ with oblique benefits.
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. We will remember them."
Can anyone help.. My husband is looking to buy any old sporting programmes - match day magazines.. Rugby, Football, Cricket, Melbourne Cup Horse Racing, Motor Racing, Speedway, Soccer etc to add to his collection... Also any other interesting sporting memorabilia including metal badges etc etc.. … View moreCan anyone help.. My husband is looking to buy any old sporting programmes - match day magazines.. Rugby, Football, Cricket, Melbourne Cup Horse Racing, Motor Racing, Speedway, Soccer etc to add to his collection... Also any other interesting sporting memorabilia including metal badges etc etc.. Please message me or email hubby on mjbraithwaite@xtra.co.nz
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World Book Day changes lives through a love of books and shared reading.
This World Book Day, 23 April 2022, we want to see more children develop a life-long habit of reading for pleasure, and enjoy the opportunities and benefits this brings them. Designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration… View moreWorld Book Day changes lives through a love of books and shared reading.
This World Book Day, 23 April 2022, we want to see more children develop a life-long habit of reading for pleasure, and enjoy the opportunities and benefits this brings them. Designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, World Book Day is marked in over 100 countries around the globe.
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Sometimes having NO plan is a great plan! But if you feel the need to do something this long weekend then take a look at our top ideas.
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After the Government’s announcement that Vaccine Passes and mandates within certain areas of business can be dropped, Northgate Community Services Trust assessed the programmes that these affected.
We have concluded that the Foot Clinic clients and volunteers are at no greater risk of … View moreAfter the Government’s announcement that Vaccine Passes and mandates within certain areas of business can be dropped, Northgate Community Services Trust assessed the programmes that these affected.
We have concluded that the Foot Clinic clients and volunteers are at no greater risk of contracting or spreading Covid-19 at the clinic than out in the community, therefore have dropped the Vaccine Pass and mandate for Close Contact Workers. Our volunteers will still be required to wear a face mask or display their exemption. We will also continue to distance our clinic chairs and have the room well ventilated.
Kia Ora Community Meals will be restarting up on the 4th of May, and we will be able to gather and sit indoors again for a meal. We still are encouraging mask-wearing while people aren’t seated for eating and spacing between tables and good ventilation will also continue.
Unfortunately, we do not currently have anyone to do the hairdressing that we used to offer.
Our old Feel Good Friday programmes have ceased, but we hope to start up something new for our seniors again very soon.
Zion is able to have their end of term concerts with a greater capacity limit and welcome all members of the public back to classes and concerts.
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