Relocate Newlands Fire Station

By Frank Neill

The Newlands Fire Station needs to be centrally located in the suburb, the Newlands Paparangi Progressive Association (NPPA) President Jim Bishop says.

Because of this, the NNPA will be making a submission to Wellington City Council’s consultation on the proposed Community

Facilities Plan asking the council to work with Fire and Emergency New Zealand to achieve this.

Currently the fire station is located close to Ngauranga Gorge Road.

If it was more centrally located it would mean quicker response times to fires most of the time.

“The more central it is, the better off everybody will be,” Jim says.

His comment on the fire station location was given to the “Independent Herald” on Monday 24 July – just hours before a house in Chetwood Grove was burnt down after the brigade was called when a fire on a stove was still small.

The NPPA is encouraging people to make submissions on the council’s proposed Community Facilities Plan.

“I think everybody needs to submit a view on where the fire station is located,”Jim says.

The NPPA will be making a submission.

“We are going to push to retain our community centre.

“We will push to keep what we have got and get more development.”

There are, however, more important things for the community than the community facilities,