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Public face private man MP Colin King reveals his love of family.
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Another bike theft Tess Powick is distraught over the recent theft of her Christmas present.
FACE OF THE FUTURE: The building has been designed to interact with the existing streetscape. Graphic provided.
$6 million car park project to start next month By Richard Miller Building of a major $6 million, three-storey, council parking project on the Alfred Street car park site, should start in one month. “This is a major project, both in cost and scale for Marlborough District Council,” said council’s executive project manager, Jamie Lyall, who added that tenders closed last Monday and a contractor would be appointed shortly. He said stage one of the building, which will be constructed in two stages on the council-owned site, is planned for completion before Christmas and would provide 350 parks. The building, ultimately providing about 500 park spaces, would feature three pre-cast and in-situ concrete levels. “The top floor does not have a roof,” said Mr
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Lyall “but the ground floor height has been increased to allow for retro-fitting of retail if that demand arises in the future although there are no plans for it at this stage.” He said the council had deliberately delayed the start of the project to the quieter off-season. “There will be a period when the existing Alfred Street car park will be unavailable but we hope to mitigate this issue over the construction period by promoting under-utilised parking areas such as the railway station car park.” He said the council was “very conscious” of the aesthetic impact of a large concrete structure on the town. “We are determined that this structure will not detract from local amenity values. Building façade treatments have been developed to enhance the
building and its interaction with the streetscape and other buildings.” In 2006 the council commissioned a car parking study for Blenheim’s CBD which earmarked that an additional 500 car parking spaces were required within the next five years. In the mid-nineties the council had previously purchased the former Overton Ford site due to its strategic location behind the town’s CBD and the site was then designated as a car park in the district plan. “Due to an increase in land values over recent years it is now cost-effective for the council to construct car parking buildings. “This also provides the added advantage of condensing parking areas into strategic, close proximity locations which support the CBD.”
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