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tuesday 28 August 2018
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Multi-level carpark for Nelson? Charles Anderson Editor
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The Nelson City Council is pondering whether the CBD needs a multilevel carpark to add to its 1700 public spaces as it tries to figure out how to draw more peo-
ple into the city centre. “Access [to the city] has been an issue that has been raised with us and that is not going to be a quick fix,” says council’s group head of strategy and environment, Clare Barton. It comes after a series of forums with retailers and landlords over
the future of the CBD, as empty shopfronts continue to pop up. “Currently we are looking at options and that might include multi-storey carparks,” Clare says. However, council was also to look
at ways of encouraging Nelsonians to think differently about the need for carparks. It had recently spoken with a residential developer from Wellington who was putting in central city apartments for 30 people, but
with only four car parking spaces. Instead it was looking at offering four electric vehicles for its residents to use. “We are looking at how we can encourage that kind of thinking,” Clare says.
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4 ROSES: Nelson College for Girls Prepatory students Georgie Levien, Georgia Brace-Gardiner, Amelie Pessione and Bella Gibbons. Photo: Kate Russell.
Schoolkid rockers take the stage Kate Russell The next generation of Nelson musicians is here. All-girl band 4 Roses, from Nelson College for Girls Preparatory
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School, will be one of ten Nelson bands taking the Theatre Royal stage for Rockshop Bandquest this Friday night.
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