LGOIMA [1323259] Request Date: 22nd May 2024
Council Long Term Plan 2024-34 Workshop
https://christchurch.infocouncil.biz/Open/2024/05/ISCC_20240521_ATT_10025_EXCLUDED.htm#PDF3_Attachment_44766_5
Shirley Community Centre, Page 16
Hi, Can you please let me know the answers to John Fisell comments regarding the new Shirley Community Centre:
1. “Staff negotiating with a prospective community partner”
1.a. – What “community partner”?
2. “Sympathetic building company to develop this building facility”
2.a. – What “building company”?
2.b. – Why is this proposed new building facility not going out for tender?
As a resident who has been advocating for 10 Shirley Road since 2018,
https://www.10shirleyroad.org.nz/shirley-centre-overview/
I am disappointed that this process has not been open & transparent from our communities point of view.
3.a. – When is this report & feasibility study being presented to the Waipapa Papanui-Innes-Central Community Board?
3.b. – Will residents only find out what is being proposed after the Community Board have made a decision? (like the previous Crossway Church proposal)
3.c. – Will residents be consulted on this proposed “community partner”?
3.d. – Will residents be consulted on the proposed building design/function/available facilities?
LGOIMA [1323259] Response Date: 5th June 2024
Phone call from John Filsell:
After my LGOIMA request to Christchurch City Council, I received a phone call from John Filsell.
I was told the ‘prospective Community Partner’, “it’s you, ‘Shirley Road Central’”.
I let John know that was incorrect.
It was actually residents from the west of Hills Road, St Albans Residents Association members, who had been a part of the ‘Shirley Road Central’ group that was created to bring together residents from the suburbs around Shirley Road: Shirley, Dallington, Richmond, Edgeware, St Albans & Mairehau.
The ‘Shirley Road Central’ group was dissolved in 2022.
Email from John Filsell:
“Just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to talk with me earlier today.
I will be at the Waipapa meeting on 13 June and hope to see you there.”