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Work starts on new Canterbury nature reserve and sports park

The Team Reporter from The Press

Workers have broken ground on a new $13 million sports park and nature reserve on the outskirts of Christchurch.

The 22-hectare reserve will be on Birchs Rd between Prebbleton and Lincoln, and will feature new bike tracks, sports fields, stretches of native bush, and a dog park, to be constructed in stages over the next five years.

Two Selwyn companies have this week started building the first stage of the park, a 10ha area expected to open to the public in spring 2022.

It will be made up of off-road and sealed bike tracks, complete with jumps and a snake run – similar to tracks at Bottle Lake Forest and the Christchurch Adventure Park.

There will be also be a dog park with an area set aside for smaller pooches, and three full and one half-sized sports fields, with lighting.

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