Designs have been drawn up and the Christchurch City Council has given approval for plans to turn a northern part of the former Orion site in St Albans into a village for 200 workers rebuilding the city.
The complex will be known as the Cressy Village. Cressy was the name of one of the first four (of 25) ships bringing people from England to settle in Christchurch between 1850 and 1853. Drawings of the proposed site can be found here: Temporary workers accommodation plan
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Makes a change from tales of pumping stations and wastewater pipes being replaced but the underground electrical cabling down McFadden and Kelly’s Roads is just as important.
Part of the cabling has already been laid between 75 McFaddens Road and Nancy Avenue and the remaining piece between Nancy Ave/Ramger Street and Walter Park near Hills Road should be laid this week. Work filling in the trench and resurfacing the road should be completed by mid February. Containers mark the places where the new cabling is being joined to older or recently laid cabling.
Source: based on SCIRT notice
Location: Shirley Primary School, Shirley Road
Time: 7:30pm on February 12
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Enquiries to President Ralph Ross phone 385 5110 or email the Secretary Carole Greenfield at greenfields@paradise.net.nz
Advertised recently on The Big Idea website: If you are running a small business or creative activity and would like to share a villa with a clothing business, there’s a 3900 x 3300 room available in a restored villa at 151 Edgeware Road. The kitchen and lounge space are shared but there is no off street parking (but plenty of on street parking). Available for $150 per week plus power. To view telephone 377 8962
St Albans Youth seeking funding to develop their skills can apply to the Shirley Papanui Community Board’s Youth Development Fund.
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Is Auckland grabbing the Edgeware Village revamp plan for its waterfront redesign?
Well if this screenshot of Auckland newspaper The Aucklander is anything to go by. The article might still be there under the heading Council Bodies Tussle Over Waterfront plan
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A new Facebook page has been set up to alert people in Christchurch to burglars and scams that may be operating in their neighbourhood.
The Canterbury Burglar Watch page looks like social media’s answer to Neighbourhood Watch (which still operates in many areas). The page has reported on stolen items as well as suspicious behaviour. It also plans to cover useful tools like webcams, which can send files showing unwanted activity over the internet to a prearranged address.
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Time: February 12 6.30pm
Description: Southern Response is holding a meeting to update customers on its settlement progress, including its repair and rebuild programme.
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Linwood Community Arts Centre is holding a multicultural art exhibition from the
February 16 to March 9. If interested in exhibiting contact Chris or Shirley at 981 2881.There is no cost involved.
Location: Rehua Marae, Springfield Road
Date: February 6, Waitangi Day
Description: Rehua Marae is holding an Open Day as part of the Waitangi Day Celebrations. The day is very informal – no powhiri or organised programme – but there will be resources available.
The section of Edgeware Road between Lindsay Street and Madras Streets will be out of action for a couple of months from Monday, January 28 to enable repair work to be done on the footpaths, kerbs and roadway.
While this happens Edgeware traffic from both directions will loop around to Winton Street and back.
And when that is complete, another section of Edgeware will be out of use.
Your photo could feature on the front cover of the Christchurch City Council’s long term plan if you win the photo competition they are running.
The Christchurch City Council is running a photo competition to find images of Christchurch for its long-term plan. It wants photos that show the way we want our city to develop and the future we see for ourselves.
There are two categories. Photos can be of people (families, cultural and social events) or places (buildings, suburbs and the city). You can enter up to five digital images, taken since 1 January 2012, in Christchurch or Banks Peninsula.
Entries close at 5pm on Friday, 1 February 2013.
This website is dedicated to the recovery of St Albans and its city, Christchurch following a devastating series of earthquakes in 2010 and 2011. This service by the St Albans Residents’ Association (SARA) offers relevant local information. If you are from an organisation or a business and have essential information you would like to share with the community, then please get in touch by email to sara@stalbans.gen.nz and we will endeavour to publish it here.
