Land swap for lake reserve?

Press, 24 April 1980, Page 6

Land swap for lake reserve?

A proposed property exchange between the Christchurch Drainage Boad and the Christchurch City Council may help to retain more Horseshoe Lake land in its natural state. About 2.2 ha of board land just upstream of the new pumping station near New Brighton Road may be exchanged for about 2.lha of council land next to the Memorial Park cemetary in Bromley, near the sewagetreatment plant. The board’s construction and treatment works committee said yesterday that board land on both sides of Horseshoe Lake should be preserved in its natural state if the exchange was made.

Since the land was in a residential zone a City Council assurance to this effect would be needed. Mr R. A. Bamford, who is also a city councillor, said

he would be concerned if the land was exchanged and later developed for housing or another use. It had to be retained as a reserve. The board wants to retain access rights for channel dredging from the end of Ligghins Street. The board’s chief engineer (Mr P. J. McWilliam) said that taking machinery along a built-up pathway along one side of the channel from the pumping station would mean taking out a few trees and destroying ’ the present council 1 walkway. • ':' ’ Another land exchange, to give the council a site near Dyers Road for a rubbish transfer station and a dog shelter, has also been recommended to the Drainage Board. The board would take council . land next, to the Bromley property as an exchange for the. Horseshoe Lake land.