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Governors Bay Jetty grand opening After twelve long years, the highly anticipated grand opening of the Governors Bay Jetty will take place this Saturday! This is a free event to celebrate the official opening and a community’s mahi to rebuild the much loved Jetty. Bring your friends and family and come and join us for…
The Council’s Customer Services team has come out on top winning the Gold Award in the Supreme Awards category at the CRM/CCNNZ Contact Centre Awards on Friday 15 September. Additionally, for the fourth year in a row, the team has taken out the Industry Sector Awards for Public Services. “I’m immensely proud of the team…
Smart Christchurch Innovation Expo 2023 Are you ready to witness the latest innovations? Join us for the Smart Christchurch Innovation Expo 2023 at Te Pae – Ōtautahi Christchurch’s world-class Convention and Exhibition Centre – where you’ll see inspiring breakthroughs in technology and hear cutting-edge ideas. The free expo runs from Sunday 10 September to Monday…
With visible progress on Te Kaha, the Court Theatre, new office developments and staged improvement to Cathedral Square, the Central City experience continues to add new attractions. The plea to keep up momentum on improving the look of vacant sites comes as latest statistics, in the Council’s Central City Biannual Report, reveal that since 2020,…
Head of City Growth and Property Bruce Rendall says the Council wants to hear from Central City residents, businesses, as well as the wider Christchurch city on the noise levels they expect in the Central City, at what times and in what locations. “We want to further support the development of mixed-use, vibrant, Central City…
Head of City Growth and Property Bruce Rendall says the Council wants to hear from Central City residents, businesses, as well as the wider Christchurch city on the noise levels they expect in the Central City, at what times and in what locations. “We want to further support the development of mixed-use, vibrant, Central City…
With visible progress on Te Kaha, the Court Theatre, new office developments and staged improvement to Cathedral Square, the Central City experience continues to add new attractions. The plea to keep up momentum on improving the look of vacant sites comes as latest statistics, in the Council’s Central City Biannual Report, reveal that since 2020,…
Mr Barclay has spent more than 25 years in key positions with the Blind Foundation/Blind Low Vision NZ and Arthritis New Zealand. He now operates his own Ōtautahi based business, Vision Without Limits, which works with organisations and disabled people to improve accessibility in relation to employment, information and services. Having worked in the disability…
Presented by Te Pūtahi Centre for Architecture and City Making, the first Christchurch Conversations with Sophie Howe will look at creating intergenerational wellbeing. It will explore the future-facing transformations that Wales has made in urban and climate change matters through the lenses of housing, land-use and transport needs. Sophie Howe has just completed her seven-year…
The school holiday programme runs until 16 July and lets tamariki explore four of the city’s favourite places, in any order and at their own pace. The trail is packed with discovery – from Tūranga to the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, over to Teece Museum and then the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetū. Head…
She’s the new Graffiti Projects Co-ordinator at Christchurch City Council and already she’s making a difference with the ‘What’s Cool About Your School’ initiative. Schools can ‘adopt a Chorus or Vodafone cabinet and showcase their school by designing, painting and maintaining the cabinet. “It helps to beautify their surroundings and increase ownership in their community,”…
Elizabeth moved into her downstairs studio in February. The painter and print maker had been teaching painting full-time at Cashmere High School when a diagnosis of breast cancer changed the landscape. After a year of successful treatment in 2022, an opportunity for a studio came up at Toi Auaha, and she embraced it. The heritage-listed…
Next week more than 1500 international travel delegates and the country’s leading tourism operators will experience the new Ōtautahi Christchurch during TRENZ, a four-day trade event. The event doubles not only as a business-generating trade show, but as a chance for international travel trade and inbound tour operators to re-familiarise themselves with the city and…
Ōtautahi Christchurch is one of six cities across New Zealand taking part in the four-day event from Friday 28 April to Monday 1 May. Participants find plants, animals and other creatures, take a photograph and share it via the free mobile app iNaturalist NZ – Mātaki Taiao. Ecologist and NZ iNaturalist Trust chair Colin Meurk…
Race Director Chris Cox is thrilled by the response to the new central city loop course that takes in Hagley Park, Christchurch Town Hall, Cranmer Square and the Ōtākaro Avon River. “With a more compact course, we’re hoping to create a real buzz and festival atmosphere with spectators and supporters able to watch from around…
ChristchurchNZ Chief Executive Ali Adams says a clear city identity is a recognised driver of economic development, because it makes it easier to explain why our city really is a great place to live, to work, to visit, to study, to invest and to play. And when residents buy into a city identity, it helps…
“Our contractors are already busy sweeping and clearing footpaths following the recent spate of bad conditions,” City Streets Maintenance Manager Steve Guy says. “While the leaf fall period is typically spread over the months of April through to July, heavy rainfall or high winds can speed up the process.” Mr Guy says the city has…
On Wednesday councillors will consider a staff report recommending a blended approach of regulatory and non-regulatory initiatives to manage the effects of noise, particularly in the central city’s mixed-use residential and commercial areas. Read the Council report. If approved, the Council will undertake a plan change process to review the District Plan, determine whether changes…
A temporary makeover of a large vacant site in the central city has now been unveiled. The temporary youth space on St Asaph Street, includes a half basketball court, six giant spray cans, new murals and seating which have transformed a potholed carpark into a vibrant setting for physical activity and creativity. The Council’s Enliven…
Mark one of the world’s most celebrated festivals by heading down to your local library for a variety of colourful and diverse events. From 22 January to 5 February 2023, Christchurch City Libraries is hosting more than 30 different events to mark the Lunar New Year and the Year of the Rabbit. “The celebration of…
Ōtautahi Christchurch is a water city. Yet people’s relationship with water in this place, and how we manage or care for it, has changed over time. From the kaitiakitanga (guardianship) approach of te ao Māori and mahinga kai (food and resource gathering) networks, we find ourselves paving over the waterways today to make way for…
Jewellers, writers and digital artists are among the 17 local creatives about to move into new spaces at Toi Auaha. 12 studio spaces were offered to the local arts community and have been filled by a variety of arts practitioners. Toi Ōtautahi and Christchurch City Council Principal Arts Advisor, Kiri Jarden says Toi Auaha is…
Over 4,000 residents and nearly 10,000 visitors have so far contributed to work on two Destination Management Plans for the region and a Christchurch city identity, or story, that defines who we are. ChristchurchNZ has today called for local agencies to submit a registration of interest in helping develop the new city identity next year…
Here in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, many people are working for change: riding their bikes, reducing waste, planting trees, shopping local, running sustainable businesses, or lobbying our leaders. But at times, it can feel like our city-scale climate actions are stuck in traffic. Cities are big enough to make a difference, but small enough for concerned citizens to…
As spring weaves its magic across the Garden City, we asked Christchurch City Council Head of Parks Andrew Rutledge how the name came about. “It’s actually an association that dates back to 1906, the year Hagley Park hosted the New Zealand International Exhibition and British Government attendee Sir John Gorst remarked that Christchurch reminded him…
A colourfully painted 20-foot shipping container in Cashel Mall is helping give Christchurch innovators and budding entrepreneurs a chance to test their ideas and products with the public. The shipping container is Life in Vacant Spaces’ Incubator and has been set up to provide groups and individuals with an affordable central city space where they…
Investment activity in Christchurch’s city centre is continuing at pace with consenting data showing a healthy amount of new development work in the pipeline. “The number of building and resource consent applications that are coming through to the Council is a positive sign that people have confidence to invest in our Central City and believe…
Investment activity in Christchurch’s city centre is continuing at pace with consenting data showing a healthy amount of new development work in the pipeline. “The number of building and resource consent applications that are coming through to the Council is a positive sign that people have confidence to invest in our Central City and believe…
ChristchurchNZ is on a mission to find out what makes the city tick. The economic development agency is undertaking two surveys to find out what makes Christchurch unique and attractive to both the people who live here and to visitors. The online surveys were opened to the public last Friday – one is for local…
As darkness falls in Cashel Mall this week passers-by may notice a new lighting installation projecting larger-than-life figures onto a prominent wall next to Rollickin’ Gelato. The Light Shadows projections will be on display 15 August – 20 September from 6pm to midnight, bringing playful moments to the city after dark. Illuminated human figures, filmed and edited…