18 May 2022 - Nelson Weekly

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Wednesday 18 May 2022

Millers Acre costs balloon to $1.4m ERIN BRADNOCK LOCAL DEMOCRACY REPORTER

Nelson City Council has agreed to fork out an additional $625,000 to finish recladding works at Millers Acre Centre as extensive water damage has been revealed as the result of poor maintenance.

Remedial work to repair the Millers Acre Centre began in 2020 with an initial budget of $850,000 set in May that year. Further investigations have since revealed the extent of water damage, including the discovery of toxic mould. Stachybotrys chartarum, a toxic

black mould associated with leaky buildings, was detected in air and wall samples taken from Nelson’s i-SITE centre in Halifax St. Mould was also found at other sites at Millers Acre including tenants Datacom, Simply New Zealand and the New Zealand

Trade and Enterprise Office. The iSite area was closed in 2020 and the tenants informed that they could not access parts of the building. A report to the council’s strategic development and property subcommittee in March this year detailed that deteriorated

17-year-old monolithic plaster and the weatherproof paint coating system on the Millers Acre centre resulted in moisture tracking through cracks and into the building structure. Strategic development and

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Charity ball kicks cancer Nelson Cancer Society’s annual charity ball fundraiser was held at the Trafalgar Centre on Saturday. Naming sponsor the Cooper Group Estate Agents’ Debbie Cooper, pictured above with Ritchie and Georgia Norris, says the night was fabulous. “The result was out the gate, we are really, really pleased for the cancer society, it more than surpassed the expectations. Debbie says there was well over $100,000 raised, all of which will stay in the local region helping those with cancer and their whanau. “It’s such an amazing cause and I love the fact that it all stays local, that’s very important.” Photo: Mackenzie Charleton.

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