Residents Association chair Emma Twaddell has identified a number of issues facing residents and the association that she intends to raise with candidates for election at the forum. Candidates were emailed a version of this letter late last week. Read the questions on the next page and then comment, elucidate or disagree in the comments section.
These include:
- TC3 – what are the issues for the land of St Albans? (also things like house foundation damage, character homes, cracked pipes on properties etc)
- Flooding – Warrington area but also areas like Trafalgar St, Westminster St, Edgeware, St Albans Park
- Capacity of St Albansa – Brownfield intensification – what does this mean? The St Albans community has a fair idea what this means as we have watched the effects of L3 Zoning. What can be done to improve densified living? How does the intensified living sit with increased vehicular traffic?b – Roading. St Albans roads have grown from cart lanes. Can they take more traffic?
- Why is land being bought for a road that stops before its proposed destination – the city? What are the effects of the Northern Arterial Extension on St Albans (this includes the 4 laning of Innes Rd to Hills Rd and the motorway extension onto Cranford St/Sherborne St, as well as the St Albans area). A motorway entering a road and an off ramp crossing it and no plans on the table to account for the downwind effects on St Albans. The residents of St Albans have been a ‘skateholder’ in this issue since 1966. The St Albans community was promised by the CCC at the end of (something like) 33 years of roading designations over 300 odd properties, that they would be involved in future traffic planning. This is not happening, why?
- Access to all for our community. Fair to say most of the commercial buildings build in St Albans post quake are not accessible to people with a permanent or temporary mobility disability, Footpath issues, entry to street level businesses, lift access to 2nd (or 3rd) floor.
- St Albans Identity. The effects from using the name St Albans for areas pretaining to postcodes, meshblocks and CCC’s currrent community profiles takes away from the identified community of St Albans which dates back to the 1860s. The St Albans geographical community has been set by the people how live there and needs to be recognised in the rebuild of our city. What can be done at council level to rectify the incorrect labels within our community?
- Community Facilities. How can community management of the St Albans Community Centre be reestablished?How can the St Albans Pool project be supported at a council level?
Rutland area of St Albans has no community space nor does the eastern area of St Albans around Bealey/Madras. With projected intensified living extra community space will be necessary. In all the intensification seen with the introduction of L3 zoning not one new space was developed. What can be done to ensure this community is resourced with space to ensure a good standard of living for the residents?
- Regaining NNet
- Edgeware Village Green requires some certainty around longterm usage of the area.
- Local schools and the capacity limitations.
- Local Infrastructure. If every pipe on every road is broken and needs to be replaced this means all the pipes in residental homes will also be broken and need replacing. What is your knowledge of this issue?
- Past relationships between St Albans and CCC. To say the least this is fractured and lack of accountability and transparency in council decision making in the past has been a loss of trust and faith in the CCC. What can be done to mend this?
- The St Albans Community Strategy. This has been formed by feedback from residents and incorporates the local wishes for the development of the area. So far council have not supported this local initiative, would you?
These are topics that come to SARA management committee regularly but there are others too.
Source: Email from Emma Twaddell to election candidates
