Waipuna Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton Community Board Information Session/Workshop

Notes

Date:                                    Thursday 29 August 2024

Time:                                   4 pm

Venue:                                 Rārākau: Riccarton Centre,
199 Clarence Street, Christchurch

Present

Chairperson Deputy Chairperson Members

Marie Pollisco Helen Broughton Gamal Fouda Tyla Harrison-Hunt (via audio-visual link) Andrei Moore (via audio-visual link) Debbie Mora (via audio-visual link) Mark Peters

Bailey Peterson

Acting Manager Community Governance, Halswell, Hornby, Riccarton

Tel: 941 6743

Faye Collins

Community Board Advisor

941 5108

faye.collins@ccc.govt.nz

www.ccc.govt.nz

Please Note:

This forum has no decision-making powers and is purely for information sharing.

The agenda was dealt with in the following order.

1.   Apologies Ngā Whakapāha  

Apologies for absence were received from Henk Buunk and Sarah Brunton.

2.   Parks In-house Maintenance Mobilisation Introduction

Kim Wood, Community Parks Maintenance Operations Manager, presented on mobilisation of in-house parks maintenance following the decision in 2023 to bring the parks maintenance in-house to reduce the use of contractors and improve the quality of parks maintenance. A parks maintenance team has been set up for each ward with a supervisor and Parks and Gardens Maintenance Officer and team of Parks and Gardens Maintenance Officers. The team leader for Halswell Hornby Riccarton Board Area (Jeanette Martin) and supervisors for the Halswell (Will Sunderland), Hornby (Leyno Wisjnuery), and Riccarton (Sonia Tinirau) wards were introduced.

3.   Customer Service Hybris Ticket Reports
	Bridget Latimer, Manager Operational Process and Insights, presented to the Board and showed a PowerPoint presentation on customer service ticket report data, and explained an expanded Hybris Ticket report that will soon be provided to Board members via Area Reports.
	Attachments a       Presentation - Customer Service Hybris Ticket Reports ⇨

4.   Good-to-go ways to get to school
	Ashley Beaton, Community Travel Advisor, spoke and showed a PowerPoint presentation on the updated “Good-to-go” ways to get to school programme that the Council provides to schools. The Council works with a number of other organisations to provide the programme including Police, Waka Kotahi, Environment Canterbury, Brake, Sport Canterbury and others. The programme is designed to support schools in encouraging safe, active, fun, affordable, low-emission ways for pupils to travel to school and around their community. The “Good-to-go” programme requires schools to: · participate in walk or wheel to school week (primary and intermediate schools only), · participate in crash bash (high schools only), · promote and participate in annual school travel survey and receive Council termly newsletters. The Council works in partnership with registered schools to focus on transport issues that are prevalent for them and to look at the different interventions that could be used to address these. Currently 55 schools are registered for the programme.
	Attachments a       Presentation - Good-to-go Ways to get to school ⇨

5.   Various Transport / Growth work in the Halswell Hornby Riccarton wards

Weng-Kei Chen, Asset Engineer Policy and Peter Rodgers, Transport Network Planner, updated the Board on some growth-related transport work occurring in the Community Board area: · Realignment of Wigram Road A Resource Consent condition for the development at 448 Wigram Road, requires work to connect Bill Harvey Drive to Wigram Road. This gives an opportunity for the Council to realign the current sharp bend and create a much-enhanced road environment. The Developer will deliver the project. The realigned carriageway on Wigram Road will be marked to include on-road cycle lanes from Halswell Junction Road to Carrs Reserve. The realignment is likely to occur towards the end of 2024. See plan - Attachments A and B to the Agenda. · Kennedys Bush Road Upgrade Frontage upgrades alongside Oakvale Farm on the western side of Kennedys Bush Road are required by a resource consent condition. This provides the opportunity to upgrade the remaining section of the road including the formation of on-road, indented car parking spaces. The upgraded section of Kennedys Bush Road between Cashmere Road and the Quarry Park entrance will accommodate 3.2 metre vehicle lanes in each direction, with on-road cycle lanes. Traffic control measures will also be constructed to manage vehicle speeds and create a safer road environment. These traffic measures include platforms at the intersection of Kennedys Bush Road with the Quarry access, the intersection with the proposed new subdivision road, and at the new pedestrian refuges. See plan - Attachments C and D to the Agenda. · Sparks Road Upgrade between McCartney Road and Traffic Lights by Milns Drain This upgrade project will be delivered in partnership with the developers of five developments that are required by a condition of their resource consent to contribute to an upgrade. The presence of Connal Drain within the road corridor has constrained the development of a scheme that accommodates all the elements of a minor arterial road. The upgrade includes the relocation of the existing Milns and Sparks Roads intersection (a condition for the development of land at 179 Milns Road). The final plan agreed will include cycle lanes, traffic median, shared paths and pedestrian refuges and will incorporate a central median planted with trees. Milns Road will also be upgraded, including the construction of a footpath on the eastern side to connect Milns Drain to the path outside the retirement village. See plan - Attachment E to the Agenda. · Quaifes Road Upgrade between Murphy Road and Sabys Road There has been significant development work along Quaifes Road over the last five years, including installation of underground infrastructure to service the developments. The developer of 63 Quaifes Road will realign a section of Quaifes Road, connecting to Candys Road in accordance with the Outline Development Plan for the area. See plan – Attachment F to the Agenda. Next Steps: Reports seeking any required Board approvals for each project will be presented to the Board at a later date.

6.   Amyes/Springs/Awatea Intersection Update
	Andrew Cameron, Project Manager and Liqi Chen, Network Planner presented their findings on work carried out around the operational use of the two intersections if signalisation was to be undertaken, based on existing traffic data and showed a PowerPoint presentation. Amyes Road / Springs Road has been identified as a medium high-risk intersection in Christchurch which does not currently rank high enough to be supported by New Zealand Transport Agency for funding as a safety improvement project (the crash summary records 27 crashes over the past 10 years). Transport modelling has been carried out to assess the operational performance if traffic signal control is incorporated at the intersections and considering impacts on the wider road network. Three viable options have been investigated: · Option 1 - Signalise both Amyes/Springs Road and Awatea/Springs Road intersections demonstrates the highest performance based on the results of the modelling exercise. However, it requires a significant increase in funding allocation, which poses challenges in terms of financial feasibility. · Option 2 – Signals at Amyes/Springs Roads One signal at Amyes/Springs intersection achieves comparable results to Option 3 (one signal at Awatea/Springs intersection) when looking at the overall network impacts and appears to be more adaptable considering the diverse range of land use along Amyes Road but fails to solve the bottleneck of congestion and improving of wait times for vehicles turning right on to Springs Road. · Option 3 – Signals at Awatea/Springs Roads Significantly outperforms Option 2 in reducing queuing congestion and improving overall vehicle movement efficiency but the Traffic signal may potentially cause rat-running within wider local transport network. Funding: · Current Budget: $1.6 million · Option One: Four times current budget of $1.6 million · Option 2 and 3: each Two times current budget $1.6 million Direction from Board members Members confirmed that the key issues identified by staff matched their concerns. Members advised that they want to see scheming of Options 1 and 3 and would be prepared to advocate for funding for either of these options. Next Steps: Staff will develop schemes for both Options 1 (signalise both Amyes/Springs Road and Awatea/Springs Road intersections) and 3 (signalise Awatea/Springs Roads intersection) and bring these back to the Board.
	Attachments a       Presentation - Amyes-Springs-Awatea Intersection ⇨

Meeting concluded at 6:48pm.