Residents offer labour help

Press, 2 December 1987, Page 9

Residents offer labour help

Taylor’s Mistake residents have volunteered labour to build a walkway connecting the Taylors Mistake Road and the Scarborough Walkway to the beach to provide safe pedestrian access. Two Christchurch City Councillors, Charles Manning and David Cox, have devised a plan for developing the rough track round the cliff connecting the road and the walkway to the houses. They have been assisted by Mr Malcolm McClurg of the Taylors Mistake Residents’ Association.

Yesterday the council’s parks and recreation committee agreed to study the proposal and to ask the works and traffic committee to find the funds to complete the project. Cr Manning said in-

creasing use of Taylors Mistake beach and the development of housing along Taylors Mistake Road increased the possibility of accidents. There was no footpath. It was a good idea to split vehicles and pedestrians, he said. The Christchurch Drainage Board planned a sewer for the lower slopes which meant building a track for some way on the seaward side of the houses.

This offered the opportunity of improving the existing cliff track for safer pedestrian use.

It would also ease traffic numbers on the winding, narrow road.

Cr Cox said some residents had volunteered their labour to work on the track.