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Christchurch City Council is introducing an incentive for property owners in the central city to keep their vacant sites tidy. The Council has approved a new rating scheme that will affect the owners of vacant properties in the Central City Business Zone and the Central City (South Frame) Mixed Use Zone. In those two zones,…
Christchurch ratepayers are likely to get a lower than signalled rate increase this year. “When we released the Draft Annual Plan 2022/23 for public consultation earlier this year we signalled a proposed average rate increase of 4.96 per cent,” says Christchurch City Council Chief Executive Dawn Baxendale. “However, due to a number of changes we…
Despite the challenges of COVID, Ara nursing graduates achieved extremely high rates of employment, with 98.5% of registered nursing graduates who sought work as an RN achieving success. Ara nursing employment rates are consistently amongst the top in the sector, and the 2020 results bear this out. The Nurse Education in the Tertiary Sector report…
Prime office vacancy in Auckland’s CBD has increased to 7.5% over the first quarter of 2021, the highest it’s been since 2011. However, vacancy is not spread evenly across the city. Four buildings in particular bear the brunt, responsible for over half of all vacancies, something JLL NZ’s Head of Research and Consultancy, Paul Winstanley,…
Offer all the fruit bowls you like but it’s going to take more than that to lift employee wellbeing, says Jane Kennelly, Skills Consulting Group General Manager of Wellbeing. Kennelly is fronting a new Work Wellbeing Index, the first of its kind for New Zealand, which reveals fruit bowls and yoga classes are perceived by…
Strong feedback from the rural community has prompted Christchurch City Council to drop its proposal to extend the targeted rate for land drainage to all property owners in the district. The land drainage targeted rate funds the operating costs of the Council’s stormwater drainage and flood protection and control works. At the moment this rate…
We’re proposing introducing an excess water use charge for households that use significantly more water than the average. This charge would apply to any household that uses more than 700 litres per day. Crunching the numbers The proposed excess water use targeted rate would apply to any household that uses, on average, more than 700…
We’re proposing a targeted rate to help fund the restoration of some of our central city’s most treasured heritage buildings. In the past, we have funded these heritage buildings through the general rate but a new targeted rate will provide a clear picture of the portion of your rates that you are contributing to specific…
A proposal for a new targeted rate to help fund the restoration of some of Christchurch’s most prominent heritage buildings is included in Christchurch City Council’s 10-year draft budget. “We’re proposing to introduce a heritage targeted rate instead of including all funding for heritage building in the general rate,’’ says Mayor Lianne Dalziel. “This targeted…
Christchurch City Council staff are recommending a revised budget that provides for an average residential rate rise of 2.23 per cent and an overall rate increase of 3.5 per cent. For an average house with a value of $508,608 that would mean paying an extra $1.19 a week, or $62.05 a year. Read the report…