A Canterbury golf club hopes to find a way forward with the local council after parking changes left some members with mobility challenges struggling to access the course.<\/p>\n
About a month ago, the Selwyn District Council stopped Lincoln Golf Club members from parking in the cemetery, which sits in the middle of the course and had been used to park trailers carrying mobility scooters and golf carts.<\/p>\n
The parking space was mostly used by the Wednesday Wackers, an older group that plays on Wednesday mornings.<\/p>\n
Club administrator Mike Baker said he \u201cfelt sorry\u201d some members with mobility issues had been parking in the cemetery next to the club\u2019s storage sheds, where they could park trailers or access scooters stored in the shed.<\/p>\n
The club had also used the area to park supplies such as bunker sand and fuel for tractors.<\/p>\n
Access was revoked after the council became aware of accidental damage to the cemetery grounds when a tractor was driven over wet grass.<\/p>\n
Both the course and the cemetery sit on council-owned land.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe did muck things up that day, but now it doesn\u2019t look any different than before. It was certainly not intentional,\u201d Baker said.<\/p>\n
Baker initially met with council staff to discuss the parking issue, but the solution proposed \u2013 including a 10-day notice period for any commercial vehicle needing access to the course \u2013 was unworkable.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat prompted us to have a chat with the councillors.\u201d<\/p>\n
Baker and club president Ross Pemment met K\u0101 Puna Springs Ward councillors Sarah Barnsley and Aaron McGlinchy last week to discuss options.<\/p>\n
Baker said the meeting was \u201cpositive\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe cemetery and the golf course need to work together.\u201d<\/p>\n
He is now preparing ideas to present to the council.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe club will continue to obey the no-parking rule until such time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Canterbury golf club hopes to find a way forward with the local council after parking changes left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-336246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}