A St Albans couple say the Papanui-Innes Community Board should have sought wider perspectives on a controversial housing project, including these units on Mersey St. Photo: SuppliedA Christchurch couple say the Papanui-Innes Community Board has missed a key opportunity to hear all views surrounding a controversial housing project. One of the key attractions that cemented their decision to move there was the medium density housing developments themselves. Lindsay and Stilwell believe the opportunity was missed to listen to the perspectives of first-home buyers, young people, students, migrants and Covid-19 returnees to the country who live in medium-density housing. Unfortunately, as we’ve always said, we can’t have any influence as it’s not a community board process,” she said. “But we’re really happy to receive that correspondence [from the couple] because with these sorts of things, you only hear one side.”

Source: Otago Daily Times April 09, 2021 01:30 UTC