Loss of open space opposed
The Chriustchurch Civic] Trust and the Christchurch! Beautifying Association have! objected to a City Council: proposal to remove the open-space designation on! land between Fisher Avenue! and Waimea Terrace, Beck-! anham. Originally used by the. Beckenham Bowling Club, which has now moved to another site, the land has been recommended as a place for pensioner flats. Money from the sale of the land would be used to buy more recreational land in Sydenham, to the north, where public open space is scarce. Nearby Beckenham Park and a long Heathcote River frontage gives the southern area a reasonable amount of open space already, according to a town-planning report. It says the site was leased to a private club for many years and has never been a public reserve in the meaning of the Reserves Act. Even the proceeds from a sale of the land would go only a small way towards providing a similar area of
| land in a built-up residential I zone. 1 A neighbour of the site 1 ! has ajso objected, saying c ! that Waimea Terrace should j ; be widened to coincide-with i ! any development of fiats on i the land so that it would be ‘ I able to cope with an influx !of traffic and elderly per- ' isons. A hearing decision has f been reserved. -1 jl
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