Christchurch City Council
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Christchurch is a great place to live whatever your lifestyle or interests. From world-class events and festivals to first-class local amenities, the Council plays an important role in ensuring there are opportunities for everyone to enjoy.
Find out what's happening in our community and how you can get involved in all that Christchurch, the Garden City, has to offer.
CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch will tonight (21 October) be designated an International Safe Community based on criteria developed by the World Health Organisation.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Fabulous fashions and designer collections will be laced throughout Christchurch this New Zealand Cup and Show Week.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The CatWalk’s Trust Charity Dinner and Auction will provide an opportunity for spinal injuries persons to get back behind the wheel at this year’s New Zealand Cup and Show Week.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch will be buzzing with excitement this year as FIFA fever hits town during New Zealand Cup and Show Week.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Twenty-five years ago Christchurch City Council took a lead in community road safety touring nationally its road safety education performance Roadshow - the largest theatrical event at the time to tour New Zealand.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch will next week (20 to 23 October) host the 17th International Safe Communities Conference.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Safe City Officers will begin patrolling Christchurchs central city streets from next Monday (20 October).
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch’s 130-year-old former Chief Post Office, the oldest building in Cathedral Square, is set to get a nearly $90,000 facelift.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Two of Australasia’s biggest racing events gathered yesterday to launch the 2008 New Zealand Cup and Show Week carnival.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The Christchurch Town Hall takes a leading role in the celebration of Beca Heritage Week 2008 this month.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch race tracks are expecting record results at this years New Zealand Cup and Show Week.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Ten years of service to Christchurch sees, for the first time, an American receive a city civic award from the Mayor at 6.30 pm today.
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CHRISTCHURCH — A touch of magic: The junior choir from St Martins School sang "It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)", "Seasons of Love" and "Ain't No Mountain (High Enough)" as staff from Scott Base, Antarctica, crowded around their video feed listening to sounds from home.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Involving young people in their community will be the focus, when Christchurch hosts the 2008 Youth in Local Government Conference in early October.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The Body Festival ’08 launches in Christchurch this Friday with an attempt to hold the World’s Largest Synchronized Dance Routine.
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Proposed legislation regulating cars with noisy exhausts should be simplified, according to the Christchurch City Council’s Nuisances in Public Places Working Party.
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HAMILTON — The first review of the Prostitution Bylaw 2004 commences this month.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch car buffs will have a field day when the Christchurch City Council hosts the ceremonial start for the 2008 NZ Silver Fern International Marathon Rally on Wednesday afternoon, October 15.
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CHRISTCHURCH — A lecture on whaling, held aboard a tugboat on Lyttelton Harbour, is one of a suite of public lectures about the continent that the Christchurch Antarctic Festival is offering its patrons this year.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Kiwis have great potential to improve their health, lifestyle, socialisation and community feel - but first they need to change their traditional thinking, says visiting transport expert Gil Penalosa.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The third World Vintage Rugby Carnival gets under way in Christchurch this Sunday with over 700 players and their partners marching from the Bridge of Remembrance to Christ's College for the opening ceremony and welcome cocktail party.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The Christchurch Antarctic Festival, snowballing to become the biggest and best ever in 2008, will take a hiatus in 2009.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The Christ Church Cathedral bells are set to peal at noon today to welcome the earlier than anticipated arrival of the godwits.
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The first lot of Godwits from Alaska arrived at Christchurch's Avon-Heathcote estuaries almost two weeks early; their arrival on Sunday afternoon coinciding with the start of the Conservation Week (September 7-14).
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch is absolutely thrilled at news the city will host two quarterfinal games for the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
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AKAROA — The French Ambassador to New Zealand, Monsieur Michel Legras is set to share his French culinary expertise at a cooking demonstration during French Fest celebrations in Akaroa, Canterbury.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Curious about what they do and how they live at Scott Base on Antarctica? The Antarctic Festival 2008 is offering Christchurch residents a chance this month to get to know how they do it on the coldest continent in the world.
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CHRISTCHURCH — New Zealanders will be able to share in the trials and tribulations of their favourite garden designers as they prepare for the first Christchurch-hosted Ellerslie International Flower Show.
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CHRISTCHURCH — An interactive website launched today will enable students to lodge complaints of racially-based harassment anonymously via a simple online form.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The decades leading up to the 1970s were some of the best times in Christchurch – whether seen from the perspective of the ‘good old days’ or as the revolutionary cauldron of change.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch City Libraries now offers on-screen, same-day editions of over 650 newspapers from 76 countries, free to library members at christchurchcitylibraries.com/GoTo/PressDisplay
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CHRISTCHURCH — Proposed improved measures to prevent a Legionella outbreak have received support from the Christchurch City Council.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Community consultation on the Christchurch City Council’s innovative draft South-West Area Plan will start on Monday 1 September 2008, subject to Council approval at the end of August.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The Christchurch City Council is facing a shortage of aggregate material for roading and construction and has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with local quarry owners in a bid to address the City’s future aggregate supply requirements.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Tickets for the South Island’s hottest new annual event – the Ellerslie International Flower Show – went on sale this morning (21 July).
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LYTTELTON — Lyttelton Port Company deputy chairman and chairman of Christchurch City Networks Ltd (CCNL), Bill Luff, has been appointed Chief Executive of Canterbury Development Corporation, CDC Board Chair Garth Carnaby announced today.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The Council is in the initial stages of looking at the regulatory tools that can control alcohol at a local level.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu welcomed its two millionth visitor yesterday - just five years after opening in the heart of the city’s cultural precinct.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch is planning to celebrate one of its zingiest eras with the Beca Heritage Week in October.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The Christchurch Council’s planned Graffiti Office has been granted $375,000 in Government funding, to be spread over the next three years.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The Ellerslie International Flower Show will annually gift an award-winning exhibition garden to Christchurch.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The 105-year-old Tea House at Riccarton Park Racecourse will benefit from a Christchurch City Council grant of just over $70,000 towards its continued restoration.
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CHRISTCHURCH — New Zealand architects are being invited to take part in a design competition for Christchurch’s new Botanic Gardens’ visitor and staff facility.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The number of confirmed exhibition gardens for Christchurch’s first Ellerslie International Flower Show has already exceeded the number featured at the last Auckland-based Show.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Internationally renowned costume and fabric artist Jenny Gillies is creating a new “wacky, wilful and wondrous” floral artwear collection to be unveiled at next year’s Ellerslie International Flower Show.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Increased security measures for the central city, a cutting edge three bin kerbside collection system, and a stepped up refurbishment programme for community housing have been given the go ahead in the Christchurch City Council’s Annual Plan 2008/09 approved today.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The Christchurch City Council will spend nearly $1 million to triple the number of crime prevention cameras in the Central Business District.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Vivid imagery of the last great wilderness, tales of courage, of pride for the pioneers of the continent and showcasing the research on the ice are to be the highlights of the 2008 Christchurch Antarctic Festival.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch’s Festival of Flowers has partnered with the Ellerslie International Flower Show to celebrate Christchurch’s Garden City status for a month during February-March next year.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Tests on the pellets, which were dropped by protestors in Hagley Park, have confirmed they are not 1080 poison.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Alleged 1080 poison pellets have been dumped by protestors in part of Hagley Park.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker has congratulated councillors and staff members for bringing in eight new bylaws for adoption before Council within the allocated time frame.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch City Council will reimburse motorists who received fines in error since February 2005 for a variety of offences where there were no signs advising them their actions would be illegal.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch City Council’s Chief Executive Tony Marryatt is recommending that Council reimburse motorists who received fines in error since February 2005 for a variety of offences where there were no signs advising them their actions would be illegal.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The Christchurch City Council today adopted proposals for part-time bus lanes and a variety of other measures to improve bus travel along the Queenspark bus route.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Vivid imagery of the last great wilderness, tales of courage, of pride for the pioneers of the continent and showcasing the research on the ice are to be the highlights of the 2008 Christchurch Antarctic Festival.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Organisers of 'Matariki at the Marae' are inviting families to participate in the first public celebration of Matariki by the National Marae - Ng Hau E Wha on Pages Road, Aranui.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurchs New Regent Street will soon be the focus of a major heritage project as part of the Christchurch City Councils central city revitalisation programme.
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CANTERBURY — Easy access to a safe, reliable night-time public transport service is the aim of the Christchurch Central Business District Transport Accord launched today (Wednesday, 28 May).
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CANTERBURY — A comprehensive public engagement programme with the Canterbury public to prepare a strategy for water management in the region has been announced.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker today met with Nick Donald, a spokesman for the family of Marie Davis the Christchurch teenager whose body was last month found in the Waimakariri River, to discuss ways to improve safety in Christchurch.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker says today’s Government announcement to invest $244 million in transport infrastructure in Canterbury over the next 10 years will accelerate the North Christchurch Transport plan, including the Northern Arterial, Cranford Street and Hills Road.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The Centre’s three squash courts will close next Friday (23 May), the double-height area occupied by the courts being redeveloped to expand the Fitness Centre and the number and type of classes offered through the Aerobics Room.
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BANKS PENINSULA — Statement from Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker on the Environment Court decision re Banks Peninsula landscape appeals.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch City Libraries is offering a star-studded programme, and introducing a high level of online interactivity this year, to celebrate Matariki next month.
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CANTERBURY — CDC (Canterbury Development Corporation) Chief Executive Chris Pickrill has today announced his resignation, after 12 years leading Christchurch Citys economic development agency.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The Christchurch City Council has set up a working party to consider options to address noise issues around Ruapuna Park.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Following up on the success of the strengthening Philipstown graffiti vandalism programme, the Christchurch City Council has approved the setting up of an office that will coordinate a similar city-wide programme.
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Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker has presented a gift of a large stone of Pounamu mounted on a block of totara wood to Christchurch’s Friendship City of Wuhan, China.
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China will be tapping into Canterbury’s horse racing industry for horses and expertise when the sport is launched in Wuhan, Christchurch’s Friendship City in China, next year.
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CANTERBURY — Scientists from Crop and Food Lincoln are cooperating with research organisations in Christchurch’s Friendship city of Wuhan, China, to develop potatoes with superior qualities including resistance to cold-induced sweetening.
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CHRISTCHURCH — From Diane Keenan who is with the Mayor's delegation in China.
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Christchurch’s delegation to China was yesterday the first official foreign group allowed into the new Olympic Stadium in Beijing following the highly secret laying of the track earlier this week.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The University of Canterbury will host a training programme for high ranking Government officials from Gansu province, China, in September.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The inspiration of a humble man from Christchurch 66 years ago lives on for thousands of young people in Lanzhou, a city of more than 3 million people in Gansu, a province in the North-West of China.
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From the chaos of death and despair of two world wars the enduring work and legacy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission emerged.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The application of new criteria for assessing the risk of contamination to public water supplies does not change the fact Christchurch has some of the best drinking water of any city in the World.
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CHRISTCHURCH — A new multi-purpose, mid-sized indoor sports arena seating 3000, an upgrade of Cowles Stadium, relocation of netball to Addington and retirement of Rugby League Park are proposed under the Draft Metropolitan Sports Facilities Plan.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The Christchurch City Council is initiating the second phase of its tramway extension consultation, calling for submissions on the proposed route in central city.
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Six Canterbury agencies have joined forces in a campaign to welcome the city's international student and migrant population, that was launched on Monday, March 17, the eve of Race Relations Day today.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Public consultation on a Christchurch City Council proposal to allow trams in the City Mall, plus two other proposals, opens today and will close on 21 April.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The Christchurch City Council has released its draft Annual Plan 2008/09 for a month-long public consultation process.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The Christchurch City Council is initiating a public consultation to provide for trams in the City Mall as it gears up for a wider consultation to extend the tramway in central city.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Public consultation opens tomorrow on the Christchurch City Council’s proposed Public Places Bylaw, and will continue until 16 April.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch began its countdown to hosting its first Ellerslie International Flower Show today (Tuesday, 11 March) with the opening of the Ellerslie Experience.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch today launched a new brand for the Ellerslie International Flower Show.
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CANTERBURY — A proposed Canterbury-wide organisation to act as a Regional Governance Group (RGG) for economic development will be established to act as a vehicle for regional stakeholders to liaise with central government on economic development issues.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Public views will be sought on a proposal to extendChristchurch’s Central City tram route.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch households will receive a three-bin kerbside domestic waste service next year following today’s decision by Councillors on the new service.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The Christchurch City Council is proposing an average residential rate rise of just over five per cent in its draft Annual Plan 2008/09 which will be released for public consultation on 17 March.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker has today (Wednesday, 5 March) used his executive powers to introduce new measures to target boy racers ahead of a car show in the city this weekend, 7 to 8 March.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The Christchurch City Council has approved a developmental approach to its proposed Dog Control Policy and Bylaw.
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CANTERBURY — Christchurch will hold a send-off on Sunday evening for the champions of bird migration, the bar-tailed godwits, wishing them the best on their hazardous journey back to Alaska.  Residents, birdwatchers and wildlife enthusiasts will gather at the Southshore Spit to farewell some 2000 godwits on the first leg of their two-stage journey home.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Swimmers are still risking hidden rocks and tidal flows at a “very dangerous” stretch of beach in Sumner as the summer heats draws thousands to the water.
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CHRISTCHURCH — “It’s the second time I have been laid to rest,” quipped celebrated author and Port Hills aficionado Gordon Ogilvie at the unveiling of a sidewalk plaque in his honour in Christchurch today (25 January).
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CHRISTCHURCH — Organisers of the Tip Top Kite Day are hoping for a steady easterly to showcase the huge number of kites expected this Sunday at New Brighton.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch will bid farewell to Sir Edmund Hillary through a live screening of the state funeral at the Christ Church Cathedral and Square tomorrow.
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CHRISTCHURCH — New directors have been appointed to the boards of two companies owned, and one company jointly-owned, by the Waitaki District Council.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The greening of the Square continues with the arrival of six moveable planters designed by world-renowned sculptor Neil Dawson.
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