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Published on: 11th October 2008 MULTIMILLION EXPANSION PLANS FOR RESTHOME MULTIMILLION EXPANSION PLANS FOR RESTHOMEA major redevelopment is planned for Nelson’s oldest resthome. Qualcare Holdings, the company that owns the Green Gables village in Bridge St, has sought resource consent from the Nelson City Council to more than double its capacity. It currently has 30 resthome beds and 21 hospital beds and this would expand to 73 residential apartments and 50 “care facility” beds under the new plans. Geoff Hipkins, chief executive of the Oceania Group which owns the Qualcare Group, said the redevelopment was planned to take place on the existing site rather than swallowing up neighbouring properties. “We look at using height – we tend to go up.” Mr Hipkins expects it might take 12 to 18 months to complete the planning and consent processes, and close to two years for construction. Green Gables was built in the early 1900s, sold to Presbyterian Support in 1957 and bought by Qualcare in 2001. The Nelson Mail, Monday 6 October 2008 BUILDING TO MAKE WAYA building is to be knocked down to make way for another 10 parking spaces in Wakatu carpark in central Nelson, Nelson City Council technical services manager Alec Louverdis said. Tenders are now being called for the demolition of the Apex building in the carpark, and the reinstatement of the road. Mr Louverdis said the plan was to extend the carpark and alter the layout, which would create a new entrance on the western side. Tenders close on October 16. The Nelson Mail, Monday 6 October 2008 OWNER HOLDING BIG SALE OF REAL ESTATEA Nelson developer behind a “massive clearance” sale of 15 properties says the move is to enable him to get on with other projects. Nick Ward is the major shareholder in millions of dollars’ worth of property from Nelson to Golden Bay which Haven Realty is selling either through auction on October 23 or a deadline sale on October 24. However, Mr Ward denies being under pressure to sell, instead likening the clearance to a retailer trying to get rid of excess stock. The properties accounted for about half his portfolio and banks had no interest in some of them, he said. “I’m very bullish about the Nelson market.” Nelson seemed to be less affected by market conditions than other places in New Zealand, he said. The properties Mr Ward has for sale include two vacant and three leased industrial units in Koru Place, Stoke; 70ha of rural three-zoned land in Old Coach Rd, Mapua, three residential sections in Mapua; three sections and a three-bedroom executive townhouse in Mahitahi Way, Nelson; a 29ha block of native bush in Craigieburn Rd, Upper Takaka; and a residential section at Heemskerck Place, Tasman Heights, Nelson. The Nelson Mail, Wednesday 8 October 2008 FEARS AT SAWMILL DIOXIN LEVELSSoil contamination at sawmill sites is far worse than first thought, according to a new Ministry for the Environment study that encompasses the Nelson region. Poisonous dioxin levels at 255 current and former sawmill sites, including 7 in Nelson and 11 in Tasman, were believed to be 2.5 to 5.5 times greater than estimates in the late 1990s. This was based on a close investigation of 17 sites, including one in Tasman. Tasman District Council environment and planning manager Dennis Bush-King today confirmed the land use on some former sawmill sites in the district had been changed, and remediation occurred at this time. He was unsure whether any former sites were now being used for housing. The council had a contaminated sites register which it refused to publicly release. This was because it relied on the cooperation of land owners to collect information and address risks, Mr Bush-King said. The council informed land owners about contaminated sites when they brought a Land and Information Memorandum report at the time of their property purchase. Without reviewing the council’s contaminated site register, Mr Bush-King was unable to say today how many sawmill sites, former and present, it included. The Nelson Mail, Friday 10 October 2008 ST JOHN GEARS UP FOR MOVE TO NEW STATIONNeighbours of the Richmond St John Ambulance station will be pleased to learn that a new $400,000 station in Lower Queen St will be completed within the next month. St John Ambulance has been based in a residential house in Croucher St but decided to move because the property is too small, with insufficient office space and only one single garage for two ambulances. It has been building a new station in Lower Queen St on land donated by Nelson Pine Industries, and plans to move later this month or early next month. “Our neighbours at Croucher St will be happy because it will be a lot quieter,” Richmond St John Ambulance team leader Jon Leach said. “We try to avoid putting the siren on when we go out but sometimes the traffic is backed up and we can’t avoid it.” Mr Leach said the new station would have three garages, four offices and modern kitchen and living quarters for staff who were on call overnight. It was also strategically placed so that ambulances could respond to the increasing number of emergency callouts in Tasman district. St John Ambulance statistics show that 60 percent of the Nelson region’s annual total of 780,000 emergency callouts come from West of Nelson city. St John Ambulance project manager Fiona Newey said it still needed to raise $18,500 to enclose a walkway between the Versatile office building and Totalspan ambulance bay to create a storage area. It launched an appeal on Monday aimed at asking 100 Richmond, Moutere, Hope, Brightwater, Wakefield and Mapua businesses to donate $185 each to reach the target. “We receive no government funding for building or furnishing purposes, “ Ms Newey said. “One hundred percent of what is donated will be spent on the Richmond station.” The Nelson Mail, Friday 10 October 2008 NMIT TOURISM BUILDING HIT BY FURTHER DELAYSConstruction of the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology’s new $7.4 million tourism and hospitality building has fallen further behind schedule, with the contractor now reporting delays of up to seven weeks. However, NMIT acting chief executive Caroline Seelig said yesterday polytechnic management was confident the building would be finished in time for the start of studies in February 2009. Richmond firm Wilkes Construction was awarded the contract for the three-storey block last year, which NMIT planned to be ready in February. In a report included in this week’s polytechnic council meeting agenda, Tasman Projects reported that the contractor had reported a delay of up to seven weeks for each level of the building. However, the contractor was still aiming to hand over each level only four weeks behind the original date. The Nelson Mail, Saturday 11 October 2008) PROPERTY WATCHPub conversion planned Eelco Boswijk junior and Mic Dover of Dead Good Beer Events are planning to open a pub in a former church on a Wakatu Incorporation leasehold property in Collingwood St. Mr Dover said they still had some legalities to get through but hoped to have the Freehouse – an English term for a pub not tied to a brewery – operating in December. The property has been used largely for residential purposes in recent years and was recently listed with Summit agent Ross Benbow. The sale price wasn’t available for publication but the property’s GV is $285,000, with $200,000 of that being the land value. Mr Benbow said two parties had made offers and there were also two other interested buyers who were waiting for finance to become available when the property sold. Bay lodge, vineyard sold The Ruby Bay Lodge and Vineyard in Pomona Rd which was listed with Bayleys Nelson for $2.7 million has sold for $2.35 million. The property includes a 5ha vineyard, luxury lodge, cottage accommodation and a licensed cellar door facility. It was developed five years ago and has a GV of $1.5 million. Listing agent Bruce Farquhar said it was on the market about four months and sold to a couple who had moved back to New Zealand from overseas. Para Rubber store planned The former Tasman Bay Motors site on Haven Rd has been leased through Harcourts commercial agent Neil Hodgson to Nelson couple Jason and Colleen Wastney who plan to open a Para Rubber store there later this month. Mrs Wastney said they had been looking to buy a business for some time and were excited by the opportunity to offer such a well known brand. The store will operate six to seven days a week, selling anything to do with foam and rubber, Mrs Wastney said. Dovedale block fails to sell A 22.75ha horticultural block with a three-bedroom villa on Main Rd, Dovedale, which was the subject of a mortgagee auction, has failed to sell. Colliers International Nelson executive Tony Gowans said three interested parties attended the auction last week. He declined to reveal what the property was passed in at but said negotiations were continuing. The same agency is also handling the mortgagee sales of the former H and J Smiths building in Bridge St and the former Franklyn Hall nurses home in Waimea Rd. Mega store café moves Kay Field has sold her Espresso Garden Café in the Mitre10 Mega store at Annesbrook. The café has been on the market for about a year and was sold through Bayleys commercial agent Reece Forces to Lisa Crawford for an undisclosed sum. Ms Field said she would be concentrating on her existing businesses, Morrison St Café and Cable Bay Café, which is reopening for summer. Columbus replaces Cocoon The Columbus Coffee chain is opening in Nelson’s Fashion Island in the premises once occupied by Cocoon. Columbus Coffee opened its first café in Auckland in 1995 and now has nearly 30 outlets throughout the country. Operations manager Nathan Bonney said it had been looking for a suitable venue in Nelson for some time. The café will open early next month and be managed by Julz Staal with a team of 11 staff. The Nelson Mail, Saturday 11 October 2008 |
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