Move over yellow buses, the great container wall of Willow St has arrived.
Intended to protect pedestrians and passing motorists during the Tauranga City Council's old administration building‘s demolition process, the 8x40ft-high cube containers will be in place on Willow Street for the remainder of the demolition/deconstruction works.
Demolition progress also means the library car park on Hamilton St is closed until the completion of the demolition, sometime in December.
The demolition is taking a little longer than expected because more asbestos has been discovered. The city council is working with the contractors to remove the asbestos, in accordance with WorkSafe New Zealand-approved code of practice for the management and removal of asbestos.
The bus stops affected by the demolition have been moved. Stop B on Willow St is being relocated around the corner to Wharf St, and the regional bus stop Stop D is being moved further up the street.
Library books drop-off is at the library main entrance, which can be accessed from Wharf St or Willow St. The council customer service centre and the library will be open normal hours.
Once the administration building is demolished, the vacant site will be used by Little Big Events until investment decisions are made on the future of the space and the site is developed.
The city council resolved to demolish the old administration building in September 2016. Toxic mould was discovered in the building in November 2014.
7 comments
Resource consent
Posted on 28-08-2017 08:39 | By pnicky
Geez, I hope the TCC have got all their resource consents in place for those containers. Certainly a lot more environmentally ugly and intrusive than the wooden bench seat on the Mount beach that council is removing because it doesn't have one!
here we go again
Posted on 28-08-2017 12:33 | By old trucker
For gosh sake .i wonder how much all this cost,(BET) 2 pennies that they had a consent,yeah right, and they complain if you park your car too sell it, just wonder if this is a after thought,(containers) and was budgeted for, this will blow out, watch this space, very sneaky council, they do not want you to see whats going on, IT says again that TOXIC mould was found, and one person complained, it was empty 2yrs, and spent $$$$$thousands to fix it up, and water blast the whole outside, and now KNOCK it down, anyway its not their money,and they want to get rid of the seat made out of drift wood, like to know who in council made this call, people living near by there keep a look out, and if you see someone taking it down (GET A PHOTO) please,my thoughts only,No1 thankyou,10-4 out.phew.
@ pnicky
Posted on 28-08-2017 15:07 | By Captain Sensible
Excellent point!
Resistance is futile
Posted on 28-08-2017 15:43 | By comfortablynumb
Designed by The Borg !
Thought
Posted on 28-08-2017 17:19 | By Taffy
Here,s an idea. When they finish knocking down the building why not leave the containers or even get some more and let the TCC staff come back and work from inside the containers .Could save thousands of $ dollars They have done it in Christchurch for the last few years.Oh Sorry I forgot we couldn't have the poor staff having to suffer some discomfort now could we !!!!!!!
Usual complaints
Posted on 28-08-2017 22:35 | By Sg1nz
There is toxic mold and asbestos in the building. But then it's not like either of those things killed anyone...... Oh wait they do.......Would you rather containers to protect the public from flying debrie, or is it just easier to complain and tear people down?
Sg1nz, you are in part correct
Posted on 29-08-2017 14:01 | By Murray.Guy
Sg1nz, you are in part correct, complaints, concerns expressed of a similar theme do often result from any Tauranga City Council initiative or management, which is not surprising given the same inept attitudes and misgivings are systemic within the organisation. Sg1nz, you are either staff, a consultant or other who benefits as I've not read one report that confirms any body has been adversely affected by any mould discovered. The demolition contract would make an eye-watering read I am sure, with clauses for uncovered / unknown risks (incl potentially asbestos, although to be a real risk requires high concentrations, repeat inhalation of fibres).
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