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Sports hub unveiled By Mary Anne Gill
Planning for a 27ha super sports hub in Cambridge’s northern town belt can resume - after a lack of resources and Covid stymied progress. The development takes in three parks – Memorial, Tom Voyle and McKinnon – Cambridge Raceway and part of Cambridge High School sports’ fields. Three sports clubs leasing land in Waipā’s town belt and Cambridge High School Hockey Club initiated the discussions about the area’s future three years ago when they
made submissions to the council’s Long Term Plan calling for investment in the infrastructure. Hautapu Sports Club, using a one-off grant from the council, then commissioned a feasibility study using project managers Greenstone Group. The club wanted the study to look at indoor court facilities, clubrooms and field upgrades to improve utilisation. The study highlighted there was 21ha of land which had dated and duplicated facilities not meeting community sports requirements. The project was kick started in May when a stakeholder hui agreed
to involve mana whenua and the community to develop a high-level plan and source external funding. The council has already tagged the northern town belt area for a large destination playground. There are two archaeological Māori horticulture sites within the area - which means mana whenua involvement - Ngāti Koroki Kahukura and Ngāti Haua - will also be critical. Former Waipā senior reserves planner Anna McElrea, now a senior consultant at Xyst parks consultancy company, told the council’s Service Delivery committee this week the
opportunity came about because several council leases were up for renewal. “We brought the lessees together to discuss the findings, examples of sports hubs around the country and the options we thought we saw for the future planning and development of these reserve grounds,” she said. It was there she and council staff learned more about the Raceway and high school plans for their sites in what she described as a centrally located and large area of Cambridge open space. “There was consensus this is a
really great opportunity to work together to enhance the existing facilities to meet future demands, to enhance utilisation, to reduce duplication and to improve the quality and potentially the nature of the facilities.” “A project like this takes a really long time so from concept to implementation but they are really up for it as long as their immediate facility challenges can be resolved.” It will cost between $40,000 to $60,000 to complete the masterplan. For a more details, and what councillors think of the plan go to cambridgenews.nz
Tribute to the Queen
Cambridge Town Hall was a mass of colour in a stunning four-day light show honouring Queen Elizabeth at the weekend. The hall featured images from her and Prince Philip’s New Year’s Day 1954 visit to Cambridge. The show finished on Monday night just as her funeral began. Lighting company SBI Productions was able to use the template it used four years ago for the Le Quesnoy remembrance celebrations to show the queen on the hall’s first floor – where once there was a cinema - at three different stages of her reign. Then two shots from the visit - one at the civic reception in the Town Square and the other of the Queen and Prince Philip coming out of the Town Hall after an invite-only luncheon in her honour – were displayed across the bottom. The Town Clock was lit up with red and blue lights throughout prompting, SBI Productions to add them to the Town Hall setting on Sunday night. The show was funded by Waipā mayor Jim Mylchreest’s discretionary fund and ran from Friday to Monday starting just after 7pm.
All lit up: The Cambridge Town Hall on Sunday night.
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