Nelson Weekly Your Community Newspaper
Tuesday 4 September 2012
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Historic street sick of historic power lines Andrew Board
Residents on The Wood’s Elliot St say they happily embrace its historic status, but they are fed up with its historic power lines. For 14 years residents have tried to get its overhead lines put underground and successfully pushed to get the ducting laid in 1998 when the road was dug up for storm water upgrades. But the ducting remains
empty and successive attempts to coax Nelson City Council into putting the lines underground have failed. Elliot St is one of the few streets left in The Wood with overhead lines and residents have made submissions over the past three years to get the power lines put under ground with no luck. Resident Neil Deans says enough is enough. “I’d rather be told that we’ll never get money out of the coun-
cil than keep getting told to put in submissions year after year that don’t get noticed. It’s a waste of everybody’s time if it’s just a fob off. It’s a bit disheartening. If it’s not going to happen just tell us that.” Next year the street, which is home to the oldest state houses in Nelson and was given heritage status in 1993, will celebrate its centenary. They say they hope their “100 year old lines” will not be around for the
party. Residents were last year given a figure of $73,000 to do the job. Nelson Electricity Ltd says it has been in discussions with the residents and has agreed in the past to pay for the new lines, leaving a shortfall of around $60,000 for the council. Residents say they are happy to pay for new lines
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Come garden at the Brook Calling all wannabe green-thumbs. A Brook resident is inviting her neighbours to the suburbs’ community gardens this Saturday in an effort to boost the number of people using the Waimarama Brook Community Gardens. Helen Lynch is a regular user of the gardens and says she would like to see more families using the facility to plant vegetables, meet their neighbours, learn about growing and to have fun. So she, along with other users of the gardens, are planning a get-together at the gardens this Saturday from 1pm. She is inviting people from all over the region to come along, but would especially like to see people from the Brook area come and use their gardens. “Ten years ago this place was packed full of people and it still gets used a lot for the education but I’d like to see more people come along and learn how to grow vegetables by doing it alongside other families from the Brook.” The gardens are already well known for hosting educational workshops. Helen is hoping enough people will regularly come
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Helen Lynch is hosting a community lunch at the Brook Community Gardens this Saturday in an effort to get more families involved in gardening this spring. Photo: Andrew Board.
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