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Summit Road Society Inc IT R M O M A U D S SUMMIT ROAD SOCIETY INC. S O Y November 2001 C I E T NEWSLETTER An active Society Editorial t has been very rewarding to have received such a good response sometimes as the next wave of ‘trouble’ sweeps over from members, families and friends to the Outings we have run the Society one is tempted to wonder if it perhaps may this year. Also to our request for help in staffing our display at have been better had Harry Ell never initiated the idea the National Council of Women’s exhibition ‘Celebrating the Rural of the Summit Road and its public reserves and access. Port Hills as Glimpsed from Urban Places’. Thank you. The Committee Maybe it would have been better for the Port Hills to has tried to broaden the range of our activities from former years, and have turned out like Victoria Peak in Hong Kong? the result has been greater personal contact with our growing number There the mansions of the wealthy occupy the high of members. I have enjoyed the opportunity to meet some of you hilltops, looking down on the city below. There are only small reserves, and a famed cable car up to the during the course of the year’s activities. highest point. The best walking is along utilitarian In this Newsletter you will see we are asking for your continued active water catchment conduits. Maybe it would have been support in a number of ways, viz: OK to have houses all over the Port Hills? completing a questionnaire on the Outings programme, to I don’t really think so. I lived 5 years in Hong Kong, help with our planning for next year (see enclosed form) in a middle class ‘ghetto’ amongst the wealthy, halfway volunteering for a weekend roster at the Victoria Park up the hill. We were surrounded by mansions swathed Information Centre; in bauhinia and barbed wire, to ensure people were kept out. The hills offered great housing sites, but their joining the newly-formed Saturday afternoon work party; development exclusively for private purposes precluded making a donation towards the cost of our case in the other potential public uses of the hills and were a Environment Court opposing the rezoning of Montgomery particularly single-minded approach to the problem of Spur for residential development (appeal letter enclosed) housing. Public uses are equally important as housing in maintaining a healthy and equitable city in the long There are still a few weeks to the end of 2001 but I would like to term. Housing on the skyline removes forever the key extend Christmas Greetings to you and your families, and wish you component of natural character, or what Chinese a happy holiday and prosperous New Year. geomancy (Fung Shui) calls ‘breaking the back of the dragon’. Which is ‘fung shui talk’ for the need to show Maurice McGregor respect rather than arrogance. Also, too-complete a President concentration on private land, to the exclusion of public access, speaks of a city not resolute in its community spirit. In the case of the Port Hills, keeping the skyline natural is important to the character of Christchurch City, the Lyttelton Harbour basin and the plains of Selwyn District. I think it was Gordon Ogilvie who commented that Christchurch would be a spectacularly boring city without that wonderful wild, brooding ‘dragon’ of the Hills slumbering to the south. Not to mention the southerlies that would blast in. We should rejoice in the gift our own Christchurch ‘taniwha’ offers. But besides the skyline, the shape and covering of the Port Hills also are important to Christchurch. The radiating pattern of spurs between Godley Head and Gebbies Pass remind us of the lava flows of the former Lyttelton volcano, like the roots of some truncated Mount Egmont or Fujiyama. The grassland covering, green in winter, fawn in summer, has a unique beauty found only in the particular climate, soil and latitude of Christchurch. To see the Hills brown and dry against a blue summer sky with billowing white clouds, is to understand the soul of the place in which we live. Equally to understand it as the black winter squalls sweep along the tops. To mask or change the natural patterns unduly is to devalue the place we where live, Paul Devlin and some very parched trampers take a well deserved break on and thus our lives. the Kahukura Track below Castle Rock, on the very hot March 2001 Outing. Continued next page 2 IT R M O M A U D S S O Y 2 C I E T There is something critical in retaining the magic of the Port How should such a pattern be equitably distributed between property Hills. In having the upper levels not diluted with even occasional owners? Who should choose who will have the privilege of profiting houses or low density development. Just pure, stark natural from development of their land and who denied it? Here lies the character—outcrops, ridges, tussock, forest, strong curves and eternal collision course of a social democracy. I offer no profound patterns. These counterbalance the city. Retaining such strengths answer. But we do have to find a way. Without it the natural character would speak of a community with the restraint to maintain of the Hills will be lost. Partly, the answer lies in spending public magic for its citizens, as well as the necessary drains, wires and money to purchase public reserves, as in the City Council’s Port asphalt. Who has not been disappointed at the profusion of Hills acquisition strategy. But this is not the whole answer. There lights on the upper Tai Tapu Hills in the last 3–5 years? (If you should continue also to be a place for the efficiencies of private land haven’t been out there at night lately take a drive to Tai Tapu, ownership, under covenant perhaps, on the Hills. Like it or not preferably with a loved one, and see for yourself). Or the creep the answer lies in the political process, through councils, the Resource of houses up the spurs on the Lyttelton side. In my opinion the Management Act, and through the Summit Road Protection upper Hills should remain utterly natural in perpetuity—not Authority and its Act. The Society, on your behalf, continues to be just isolated token bits of natural but the whole swathe. Some involved in these processes. But we encounter scant understanding may call it recreation opportunity, habitat, visual protection or of the long term when undertaking these proceedings on your behalf. magic. The end is the same. A healthy community for the long And not enough supporters. term. Our President was criticised earlier in the year for voicing opposition There still are places on the Hills where further development to a helicopter tourist operation beside the Summit Road, at the will not significantly devalue the natural character. We have to top of the Bridle Path. The proposers wished to run flights from a acknowledge that Hills suburbs such as Cashmere also have a pad in a public reserve. Our President having voiced an opinion, strong character. It is not yet necessary to be totally anti- the proposers challenged the Society’s right to interfere with their development. But there are limits. Generally it is about the making of a living. Which raises another interesting question—how upper half of the hills, visually, that need to appear natural if far should publicly funded and maintained facilities be used for that character is to survive. Any less and the natural will seem generating private profits? After all, without the labours of Harry dominated by the urban. Nor should the cut off be a straight Ell and the Society, and of the Councils and Department of contour line, like some aircraft carrier. Perhaps in some cases Conservation, there would be no Summit Road, and no chain of the cut off may rise higher, as it already does on the Cashmere public reserves for helicopter tourists to want to enjoy on the Hills. and Mount Pleasant spurs. But in compensation it should be Ironic that someone should see only the immediate opportunity correspondingly lower on other spurs and valleys, to keep the and not the stewardship required to maintain it in perpetuity. visual ‘average’ about half. Any more and the natural character Reassuring that 100 years of past vision have maintained the magic of the Port Hills will be swamped by the urban. of the Hills for people to still enjoy today. On balance, I am glad Harry Ell and John Jameson did bother about IT R M O M A the future. Did, along with others, bother to expend copious amounts U D S of their time—indeed in Harry Ell’s case to consume his life— in S O Y C I E T working for a vision of the Hills as a natural asset for the public to Summit Road Society (Inc) enjoy in perpetuity. The Port Hills are central to the character of PO Box 583, Christchurch Christchurch. The Society must continue its quest amidst increasing pressures for development and change. These things don’t just President Maurice McGregor 332 0597 happen. It is up to us today to continue bothering about tomorrow. Vice-President Gordon Kirk 332 7134 Particularly as the next wave of ‘trouble’ turns up. Encourage your friends to join and support the Society. Treasurer Paul Loughton 322 7082 Graham Densem Administrator Carol Haars 385 2840 Editor Co-ordinator Graham Densem 348 9252 Obituary Committee Graham Dunbar 358 8278 Tui Elliot 329 9018 Margaret Jameson Barry Gerard 326 5105 Margaret Jameson, the wife of the Society’s founder John Jameson, Anne Kennedy 337 0364 died at home in July.
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