Site For Sports Stadium

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32233, 27 February 1970, Page 12

Site For Sports Stadium

The Christchurch City Council has evidently not yel given up the idea of building a sports stadium it Hagley Park, which is one of eight sites inspectec yesterday by the council’s reserves committee. Th< Hagley Park site inspected by the committee is ir the north-east comer, near the Carlton Mill bridge This comer of the park will be severed from the res of the park by the motorway. The reserve! committee may hope that the public, preoccupiec with the continuing argument over the motorway will pay little attention to the erection of a largt building—and the provision of several acres of sealec parking space in this comer of the park. If so. the committee should soon discover it: error. There is no other practicable route for the motorway: there are many alternative sites for i sports stadium. The Hagley Park site is not even th« best site for the stadium: its sole road access—l< Harper Avenue—would be congested for hours a a time. None of the other sites would arouse publi< indignation, and all have better access than th< Hagley Park site. The council should eliminate thii site from its list without further ado.

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