The View from the Station

I don't use the train to commute every day, but I noticed a few days ago that someone (who?) has at least addressed one of the minor things that made it unpleasant to use. The pavement at the foot of the steps down from platform 2 has been tarmacced(sp?), and all the big puddles and
trip hazards are gone!

Of more potential impact on the Perry Vale side of the station is the likely development on the Finches site. I'll make no comment on what I think about the proposed flats (because it may well come to my Planning Committee). I did ask the developers to produce another simulated photo,
to show the impact on the view across Christchurch from the vantage point of platform 1 of the station (a place where a significant number of Perry Vale and Forest Hill residents must spend a while, every weekday). A vast A3-sized booklet duly arrived in my post, with more photos than the Alice's Restaurant crime-scene (the photograph, the photographer taking the photo, the paint-mark showing the spot from which the photographer took the photo...) ; but they chose one of the few spots from which you can't see the bloody church anyway! - demonstrating (I presume) that the impact of their development on the 'local strategic view' will be zero, as long it's a rainy day and you're one of those passengers who huddles under the footbridge!

So my todo list for this afternoon (I think that's when the sun should be in the same place) includes going to the station and taking some photos of Christchurch myself, if only to prove that I can see it from (most of) the platform.