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News Ghostly trees to be removed Residents win fight to have them axed
EYESORE: The dead trees beside the Bridge St bridge and former Pleasant Point Yacht Club will be removed.
By Caitlin Miles and Sarla Donovan DEAD MACROCARPA and pine trees at the former Pleasant Point Yacht Club will be removed. The Coastal-Burwood Community Board agree the trees are an eyesore to people going to Southshore and South New Brighton. The Southshore Residents’ Association had urged the community board to get rid of the tress. The community board has requested city council staff remove the trees from the former yacht club “as soon as possible”. The association expressed its “shock” to the community board when it found out the city council had planned for the trees to remain a nesting spot for birds.
Association spokesman Simon Brown said neither he nor any other Southshore residents had ever seen any birds near the trees, which were “precariously balanced” and posed a health and safety risk for people using the estuary edge. South Brighton Residents Association chairman Hugo Kristensson agreed they should go. They were “ghostly” and “not very attractive,” he said. “We need to tidy the area up,
everyone agrees on that.” The community board has also requested city council staff remove the dead trees on the east estuary side of the Bridge St bridge opposite those on Rat Island, because they are seen as unsightly and in danger of falling. Salt water intrusion relating to the February 22, 2011, earthquake, had killed a number of trees around the Avon-Heathcote Estuary edge, some of which were removed in 2012.
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In Brief BRIDGE ST PLANTING A workshop between the South Brighton and Southshore Residents’ associations, Coastal-Burwood Community Board and the city council’s arborist contractors could be held to discuss what should be planted on Bridge St. The preference is for pohutukawa trees. Previous plans to plant cabbage trees near the Bridge St bridge was given the thumbs down by the residents’ associations. PART OF MEDWAY REOPENS A section of Medway St, Richmond, which has been closed since May, will reopen on Thursday. The section from River Rd to Flesher Ave has been closed for flood remediation works. It is part of rolling road closures on Medway, Randall and Petrie Sts to install the southern bypass as part of the Dudley Creek Flood Remediation project. Road closures are expected to finish on August 28. LIBRARY NEEDS ARTISTS Artists from the eastern suburbs have an opportunity to submit their work for display at New Brighton Library. The city council has put the call out to see if an artist has a piece, or pieces, that would fit across 14 wooden panels measuring 86cm high and 58.5cm wide each. Email library@ccc.govt.nz for information.
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