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Residents to meet varsity over hostel plan BY ANDREW KING Ilam residents get their chance tonight to put their views directly to Canterbury University over plans to turn a rest home into student accommodation. Residents will discuss the issue with the university which wants to turn to the Bupa rest home in Kirkwood Ave into a student hostel. Locals and the university meet every three month to discuss issues in the area. Last Tuesday residents convinced the Riccarton-Wigram Community Board to make the resource consent for the hostel plan notifiable. Kirkwood Ave resident Graeme Bennetts visited a number of his neighbours to make sure they were aware of the university’s plan
and found that many didn’t have any idea it was happening. “Most people didn’t know it was happening because it is a nonnotifiable consent,” he said. Mr Bennetts said they just wanted to be in the loop about what is happening in their backyard. Another Kirkwood Ave resident Allanah James is concerned that the university believes that the impact of this accommodation will be “less than minor” and thinks they may have under-estimated the potential negative impacts. Mrs James presented the concerns of the Kirkwood residents at the community board meeting last Tuesday, after a considerable amount of work was done by Mr Bennetts to bring the university’s plan to the attention of those in the area. • Turn to page 8
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ENTREPRENEUR: Abby Button holds up some of the dresses that One Second Dresses will rent as part of their new business.
Down to business with dresses A group of Middleton Grange School students have started a rental dress boutique as part of a young enterprise scheme. The group made up of three 16-year-olds Sumarie Eksteen, Abby Button and Madison Jones. One Second Dresses was developed when the girls realised
the amount of dresses they had collected and only worn once. They saw this as a business opportunity and decided to develop it into a rental dress boutique for all occasion dresses from formals, 21sts to graduations. • Turn to page 2
Kids have say on playgrounds – p4
Hornby pupils host grandparents – p8
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