Hagley Park/Botanic Gardens Master Plan
< From: Kristi
Gray, Communications team Date: 22 November,
2006 Christchurch City Council media release Council to
hear submissions on Draft Hagley Park/Botanic Gardens Master
Plan More than 100 people will speak to their submissions
on the Draft Hagley Park/Botanic Gardens Master
Plans. Hearings will take place on Monday December 4 and
Friday 15 December between 9am and 5pm in the Council
Chambers. The Mayor and councillors Broughton, Corbett,
Condon, Evans, Parker, Shearing and Withers will listen to
and consider the submissions. While there will be many
individual submitters, others will be from groups such as
the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, sports groups, garden
clubs, Canterbury Horticultural Society, Landcare Research,
Canterbury District Health Board, Department of
Conservation, the Christchurch Civic Trust and neighbourhood
groups. Christchurch City Council Planner Derek Roozen who
has prepared a report on the submissions for the Council
says most of the 597 submitters to this round of public
consultation had responded to the 56 proposals from the
plan. "Last time we had consultation, people focused on a
variety of issues,'' he says. "This time, they have made
reasoned comments on the proposed projects. We had less
comment on some of the "big ticket items'' and more on those
that involve radical change.' However submitters have
raised issues about easy access to and parking at the Park
and Gardens,'' says Mr Roozen. Ends