Bay Harbour: August 15, 2018

Wednesday <strong>August</strong> <strong>15</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />

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BAY HARBOUR<br />

PAGE 7<br />

Orchard plan for<br />

quake victims<br />

Owen Wright<br />

•From page 1<br />

Unable to drive through<br />

the tunnel, he ferried other<br />

stuck people up the Bridle<br />

Path in his vehicle, before<br />

setting off on foot to get<br />

home on the<br />

other side of the<br />

hill.<br />

Mr Wright<br />

was on the<br />

Major Hornbrook<br />

track,<br />

10min from his<br />

Norton Cl home<br />

when boulders<br />

loosened by an<br />

aftershock struck<br />

him.<br />

Now his former neighbours<br />

Betty and David<br />

Purdue want to use red<br />

zoned land at Norton Cl/<br />

Somes Rd which is currently<br />

maintained by Land<br />

Information New Zealand<br />

for a memorial orchard<br />

dedicated to the two men.<br />

The land was owned by<br />

Mr Wright and his wife<br />

Megan, and Kay and David<br />

Commons. It has four existing<br />

apple and pear trees.<br />

Mrs Wright told <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong><br />

News she was happy<br />

with the idea.<br />

“To be honest I haven’t<br />

been able to face going back<br />

since our home was<br />

demolished. However,<br />

I think the orchard<br />

idea is lovely<br />

and very healing.<br />

We could picnic<br />

under the blossoms<br />

rather than facing<br />

an empty space,”<br />

she said.<br />

Mrs Wright and<br />

her two children, Eric<br />

and Sarah, now live<br />

in Prebbleton.<br />

Mrs Purdue said the trees<br />

were Mr Wright’s pride and<br />

joy.<br />

“He was very proud of<br />

them and when the houses<br />

were demolished we almost<br />

stood in front of the digger;<br />

we chatted up the driver<br />

and said ‘please, please see<br />

if you can contour the land<br />

around Owen’s trees without<br />

taking them out!’”<br />

Urumau plan<br />

gets approval<br />

• By Sarla Donovan<br />

AFTER TWICE declining<br />

to adopt an updated<br />

development plan for<br />

Lyttelton’s Urumau<br />

Reserve, the Banks<br />

Peninsula Community<br />

Board on Monday gave its<br />

approval - with conditions.<br />

The sticking point for<br />

the board was whether any<br />

mountain bike tracks had<br />

been illegally built and<br />

needed to be closed.<br />

Its approval is conditional<br />

on confirmation that<br />

no other tracks exist other<br />

than on the plan - any<br />

others will be closed by city<br />

council staff.<br />

Additionally, access from<br />

Foster Tce will stay as a<br />

shared walking and biking<br />

path and the access from<br />

there to the vehicle track<br />

RUBBER<br />

STAMP: The<br />

Urumau plan<br />

was approved<br />

on Monday.<br />

PHOTO:<br />

MARK<br />

BRIDGWATER ​<br />

becomes a proposed shared<br />

path.<br />

A mountain bike track<br />

proposed for the northwestern<br />

corner of the park<br />

has been removed and all<br />

other proposed tracks are<br />

subject to final approval by<br />

the board before construction.<br />

Said board chairwoman<br />

Pam Richardson: “This<br />

decision has been a challenge<br />

to ensure that we<br />

acknowledge the range of<br />

issues brought to the table.<br />

Urumau is a recreation<br />

reserve, and we needed to<br />

balance the desires of all<br />

users, ensuring that it is a<br />

safe environment while at<br />

the same time respecting<br />

the environment.”<br />

The updated plan was<br />

first presented to the board<br />

in April.<br />

The land runs alongside<br />

the Major Hornbrook track<br />

and would be an ideal resting<br />

point, Mrs Purdue said,<br />

in a spot with plenty of sun.<br />

“There isn’t a memorial<br />

in Lyttelton to the two Lyttelton<br />

people who died. I<br />

think it would make a really<br />

nice pausing place.”<br />

Mr and Mrs Purdue have<br />

written to the Banks Peninsula<br />

Community Board<br />

proposing the idea.<br />

Board members “soundly<br />

supported” the concept<br />

in principle when it was<br />

discussed at its meeting on<br />

Monday.<br />

But board member and<br />

Deputy Mayor Andrew<br />

turner said Mr and Mrs<br />

Purdue may have to approach<br />

LINZ get the process<br />

moving.<br />

•HAVE YOUR SAY:<br />

What do you think of<br />

the memorial orchard<br />

proposal? Email your<br />

thoughts to sarla.<br />

donovan@starmedia.<br />

kiwi<br />

Tunnel<br />

closures<br />

ahead<br />

LYTTELTON TUNNEL<br />

will be closed on three<br />

consecutive nights this<br />

month.<br />

The closures will be<br />

from Sunday <strong>August</strong> 26,<br />

Monday and Tuesday from<br />

11pm and 4am as a new<br />

fire protection system is<br />

installed.<br />

The tunnel will open to<br />

traffic for 10min on the<br />

hour for all three nights.<br />

Outside those times, only<br />

emergency vehicles will be<br />

allowed access.<br />

They are the first in a<br />

series of night closures<br />

over coming months to<br />

enable the $29 million fire<br />

protection system to be<br />

installed and tested.<br />

Commuters can also<br />

travel to Christchurch via<br />

Dyers Pass Rd.<br />

Senior project manager<br />

Chris Collins said work<br />

on the project was in full<br />

swing and expected to<br />

finish early next year. He<br />

said the work was complex.<br />

“Single and full tunnel<br />

traffic lane closures are<br />

critical to the successful<br />

completion of this project,”<br />

he said.<br />

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