Arts Centre tavern gives concern

Press, 30 June 1983, Page 9

Arts Centre tavern gives concern

The Civic Child Care Centre staff and parents of children using the facility are concerned about a new tavern’s being built in the same Arts Centre building. The Christchurch City Council’s community services committee said yesterday that an agreement should be sought that would provide a wall between the tavern’s outside drinking area and the centre’s outside play area. Another wall or screen could be needed between the play area and the adjacent car-park, which would be more heavily used because of the tavern. If an agreement could not be reached, an objection should be lodged to the issuing of a tavern keeper’s licence for the new tavern, next to the Dux de Lux Restaurant.

An application for the licence is yet to be publicly notified. A premises licence for the tavern has already been issued by the Licensing Control Commission in Wellington. The second licence, to allow liquor sales, will be open to objections.

Councillors will ask the Arts Centre council for an agreement that would separate the tavern and child-care sites. A formal objection should be lodged if the tavern planned to extend its outside drinking area into the paved quadrangle, said Cr M. J. Glubb. An after-school centre will open soon in a Woolston Primary School prefabricated classroom. It will develop recreation and education activities for children, teen-agers, and adults in the Woolston area, $5BOO having been provided for the project in the City Council estimates. The New Zealand Lottery Board has confirmed that a subsidy of up to $lO,OOO a year for three years has been approved to help pay for a part-time community co-ordinator and recreation officer.

The Linwood-Woolston Rotary Club is also contributing to the Woolston Community Association project, which is receiving support from the school committee and Parent-Teacher Association.