For Sale Rare Quality Family Villa
OPEN HOME 14th October 2-3pm
Vendors have found their dream property in the country, opening up this wonderful opportunity for you to own this traditional, three bedroom, appealing character home, which is located in a sought after part of flourishing Rangiora – enjoy a relaxed family lifestyle with a large private backyard, backing onto tennis courts, all day sun, fruit trees and established gardens.
This villa, which still retains many of the original features but with a modern twist, was built around 1914. It offers three large bedrooms, one open plan kitchen, and dining and lounge area with two double glazed bi-fold doors opening out into the back garden and a quaint country bathroom. A permitted log burner and two heat pumps will keep you cosy in winter.
This home is a warm, dry haven that still has room for you to put your stamp on it, or to comfortably enjoy it for all it has.
- 3 x Double Bdrms - one with built in robe, one with free standing robe
- Open-plan kitchen/dining/living
- 2 x Heat-pumps + log-burner
- Plenty of storage
- Original features include Rimu T&G flooring, doors, architraves, lead light windows
- Insulation - ceiling & majority of external walls
- Double glazing on some of the house
- Bay windows + timber features
- Front verandas
- Double Garage (power + plumbing) + Separate Wood Shed
- Fruit trees + raised veggie gardens +Compost Bins
- Established immaculate grounds + backing onto tennis courts
- Built approx. 1914
- Approx. 145m2 Floor / 1,012m2 Land
Homes of this quality are rare - Don't miss out on this one!
Zoned for Ashgrove Primary School and Rangiora High School. Located within walking distance to cafés and shops, but less than 10mins from the river, cycle and walking tracks. Just 25mins to Christchurch Airport and Northlands Mall.
DEADLINE SALE: Wed 31st Oct 4pm
PRIVATE SALE
Contact Philippa and Nigel at nigel@optimised.net.nz - 0211161436
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Waimakariri district plan faces more delays amid changing rules
By David Hill, Local Democracy Reporter
Changing Government legislation is causing headaches for council staff, as Waimakariri’s new District Plan is set to be delayed again.
Waimakariri District Council development planning manager Matt Bacon said he was relieved when the last of the public hearings ended last week.
But with final council reports due on December 13, staff will have just two working days to present the final District Plan on December 17. A district plan helps to control and manage the development of the district or city.
‘‘We are working through what it looks like and we will update the council at its meeting on December 3,’’ Bacon said.
‘‘But we will likely seek another extension from the environment minister and the Resource Management Act (RMA) minister.’’
The council first notified its draft District Plan in September 2021, but within months legislation was introduced with new medium density residential housing standards (MDRS).
‘‘We needed to call for further submissions and we had to create a separate hearing panel to consider the plan variations to allow for the MDRS,’’ Bacon said.
‘‘We have tried to merge the process as much as possible, as well as looking at re-zoning and incorporating other new legislation.’’
When the draft plan was first notified there was no National Policy Statement (NPS) for Indigenous Biodiversity, but an NPS was introduced - and then replaced.
The Natural and Built Environment Act came into being last year and then repealed, and then there is the NPS on Urban Development and the Greater Christchurch Spatial Plan.
The Government is now working on more RMA reforms and Environment Canterbury is working on the Canterbury Regional Policy Statement.
And then there is the Fast-Track Approvals Bill, which includes three proposed housing developments in Waimakariri - two of them outside of the future urban development areas identified in the Greater Christchurch Spatial Plan.
All three housing developments in the Bill have been included in submissions to the District Plan, including a proposed 850-home development at Ohoka, near Rangiora, which is also subject to an Environment Court appeal.
‘‘We haven’t seen the detail, so whether it is the same proposals, we don’t know, but they are different processes so we have to just keep doing what we are doing, until we are told otherwise,’’ Bacon said.
‘‘It might just be a timing thing, but we just don’t know.’’
Bacon said delaying the District Plan until new legislation is in place is not an option.
‘‘We are looking at what we can control and having a watching brief, and we will look at transitional timings because we don’t always have to immediately change planning documents when new legislation comes in.’’
Planning manager Wendy Harris said navigating changing Government legislation is a normal part of council planning work.
‘‘If we waited we wouldn’t do anything and we would go nowhere.’’
■ LDR is local body journalism co-funded by RNZ and NZ On Air.
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