Long Term Plan 2013-2022 photo competition starts tomorrow
Christchurch City Council is running a photographic competition to find an image that showcases our city, our future. The best photograph will appear on the cover of the Council’s flagship document, the Long Term Plan 2013-2022.
The Council encourages photographers to submit an image that show the city’s people and places in all seasons. It might be capturing our city in a snow storm, a yacht race on Akaroa Harbour or the delight of an audience as it watches a World Buskers Festival performer.
The image on the cover of the Long Term Plan is significant because it helps depict the sort of city we want to live in, now and how residents would like to see it, in the future.
The Long Term Plan sets out the activities and services the Council intends to provide for a period of nine years, and how the plan is to be funded. More information about the Long Term Plan process will be available to the city’s residents in January 2013, with a draft available for community consultation in March 2013.
Community engagement in the Long Term Plan is important. The Council is committed to involving the community in all aspects of the Long Term Plan, whether it is through consultation sessions, feedback via hearings or providing images for the Long Term Plan documents.
The photography competition opens tomorrow (Wednesday 19 December) and the categories are:
- People – families, cultural and social events
- Places – buildings, suburbs and the city
Competition details:
- Photographers must submit a digital image of a person or a place in Christchurch and the Banks Peninsula area.
- The photo must have been taken after 1 January 2012.
- Photographers should consider images from all four seasons.
- Photographers may enter up to five images each.
- Entries close at 5pm on Friday 1 February 2013.
For further information, or to enter online visit www.ccc.govt.nz/capturingchristchurch
Background
Under Section 93 of the Local Government Act 2002, local authorise must prepare a long-term plan, (Council’s long term plan was previously known as the Long Term Council Community Plan - LTCCP), every three years, looking 10 years ahead. The Council’s last LTCCP was adopted on 30 June 2009, but due to the earthquakes, the Council was allowed a year’s grace. The Long Term Plan 2013-2022 will be for two years only.