Neighbourhood Support North Canterbury

North Canterbury Neighbourhood Support

North Canterbury Neighbourhood Support works to connect communities in Waimakariri, Hurunui and Kaikoura. To ensure communities are safer, more resilient, connected and well informed.

A big thank-you to our 3,500+ members who have already signed up to North Canterbury Neighbourhood Support via our Gets Ready website. Gets Ready is a tool used to register members of Neighbourhood Support. Once registered, members will receive official information from Police, councils and Civil Defence.

North Canterbury Neighbourhood Support will work alongside neighbourhoods to create street groups and then ensure these groups are communicated with.

We do this by emailing credible information such as crime prevention strategies, weather warnings, and civil defence emergency information.

This information proves to be extremely valuable to all communities. In the event of an emergency, your neighbours are your first line of support.

We can assist neighbourhood groups to develop their own emergency plans, which outline working together to combine skills and resources, and identify any key needs in times of an emergeny. North Canterbury Neighbourhood Support also provide street signs, to your neighbourhoods as well as letterbox stickers. These have proven to be very useful to deter crime.

Why Join a Neighbourhood Support Street Group?

There’s strength in numbers. A neighbourhood support group brings local people together to share information, ideas and connectedness.

Together, you can assist one another to:

• Solve local problems • Reduce crime • Minimise anti-social behaviour • Support victims of crime • Learn to prepare and cope with civil defence emergencies • Engage Police, other emergency services or support agencies • Liaise and co-operate with other like- minded community groups • Decrease social isolation.

To join North Canterbury Neighbourhood Support or find out some more information please get in contact with us using the information below.

We look forward to connecting with you.

Sarah Saunders

manager@ncns.org.nz

www.getsready.northcanterbury.net www.ncns.org.nz www.facebook.com/ NorthCanterburyNeighbourhoodSupport/

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Hit the brakes!

By Rosie Duff

A report released by Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency reveals that in 2020, 318 people were killed and more than 2500 were seriously injured on New Zealand roads.

Waka Kotahi data also shows that there have been 60 crashes alone on the section of the Tram Rd overbridge in Waimakariri between the on and off ramps, since the start of the millennium.

One of which resulted in a fatality, six in serious injury, eight in minor injury and 45 being non-injury crashes.Indeed, while Canterbury presents some scenic riding routes for motorcyclists and drivers, the area also unfortunately suffers one of the highest death and serious injury rates in the country.

In an effort to mitigate this issue, the Waimakariri District Council (WDC) are requesting community feedback on a proposal to reduce speed limits in and around towns throughout North Canterbury.

Covering roads in and around Cust, Kaiapoi, Ohoka, Oxford, Pegasus, Rangiora and Woodend, as well as some unsealed roads around Tuahiwi and Ashley, the review aims to reduce Canterbury’s Road toll and ensure that speed limits are appropriate for users. The WDC’s road safety coordinator Kathy Graham, explains that the safety of people using roads around the district is one of the Council’s top priorities.

Graham believes that ensuring speed limits are appropriate is one important way to reduce the danger for everyone. “We want to hear what the community think of the proposed speed limit changes. “Whether you drive a car, ride a motorbike, walk or cycle, it’s important we receive your feedback,” Kathy says.

The proposal comes after lower speed limits were rolled out by The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) on SH1 between Waikuku and Lineside Rd from December 15 last year.

An electronic sign at the Pineacres intersection, which currently reduces the speed to 70kmh when traffic turns on to the highway, was also decreased to 60kmh.

The latest review by the WDC is in keeping with New Zealand’s road safety strategy, ‘Road to Zero’, which has a quantified goal of reducing the number of deaths or serious injuries on the road by 40 per cent in 2030.

On a national scale, reaching the proposed Road to Zero target will mean fewer than 230 people killed on our roads and reducing the number of people seriously injured on our roads to fewer than 1,700 by 2030. Following the consultation with the community and road user groups, staff will report to the Community Boards and the Waimakariri District Council, who will draw a final decision on the matter later this year.