News and Updates from the Christchurch City Council
The month-long festival of cycling, Biketober, is back for another year. Biketober will kick-off on 3 October with the light-hearted Biketober Rainbow Rave. This night-time pedal through the city is suitable for families and starts at 8pm from the Vaka A’ Hina sculpture in the East Frame. A bike DJ will pump music along the […]
A scheme that encourages the activation of vacant sites for short-to-medium term activities by providing a rates incentive to the owners will be extended. Christchurch City Council’s Enliven Places Property Owner Rates Incentive provides a financial incentive to owners who allow their sites to be used for temporary activities while plans for permanent development are […]
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū has scored an award and a commendation at the Museums Australia Publication Design Awards. The awards honour excellence and quality in the design of publications and multimedia produced for the museums sector in Australia and New Zealand. The Gallery’s big winner on the night was in the Book […]
A proposed move to link the Papanui Parallel cycleway and the central city via Colombo Street is open for community feedback. The suggested standard cycle lanes – in tandem with an extended 30kmh speed limit – will cover the section between Bealey Avenue and the Avon River Bridge. Making tracks to Waimakariri Cyclists using the […]
Christchurch’s tsunami warning sirens will be tested this Sunday at 11am. The sirens, located along the coastline between Brooklands and Taylors Mistake, will sound for up to three minutes as part of routine testing to check they are working correctly. Usually the sirens are tested each year at the beginning and end of daylight saving […]
New dates have been locked in for Christchurch’s inaugural spring music festival Go Live! The nine-day festival was originally scheduled to take place in September, but it was postponed until November when the outbreak of COVID-19 cases in Auckland resulted in the country shifting alert levels. “We’ve had to tweak some of our plans for […]
A new ‘recipe’ for making compost at the organics processing plant in Bromley could hold the key to reducing the suburb’s odour issues. The new recipe has been formulated over the past three months following a series of small scale trials at the Living Earth plant. “As it takes about 12 weeks for material to […]
Ownership of Christchurch’s former residential red zone areas has officially begun transferring from central Government to Christchurch City Council. The start of the property transfers was marked this morning with a symbolic hand-over of the renovated former home of acclaimed New Zealand artist Bill Sutton. The Templar Street property is part of the first parcel […]
Days of Ice lands in Christchurch next month, celebrating the city as the gateway to the Antarctic with a new events programme. Co-ordinated by ChristchurchNZ, more than 30 ice-related events and activities will feature as part the overarching BLOOM events season. Days of Ice will run from 8 to 18 October, with the Arts Centre […]
Work to improve bus journey times along busy Main North Road is drawing to a close. Contractors City Care have been working since the beginning of the year to install a northbound bus lane on Main North Road between Winston Avenue and Sawyers Arms Road. They had to temporarily halt work during the COVID-19 lockdown […]