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Art-inspired Fashion at Christchurch Art Gallery

Friday, 24 April 2009, 10:47 am | Christchurch City Council

Laurie Foon, designer at New Zealand fashion house Starfish, was so moved by Rita Angus’s eye for colour that she used it as the foundation for her winter collection, Heirloom. More >>

Innovative plan adopted for South-West Chch

Thursday, 23 April 2009, 5:29 pm | Christchurch City Council

The Christchurch City Council today adopted an “innovative, multi-dimensional” Area Plan for South-West Christchurch. The South-West Area Plan is the first area plan specifically developed by the Council to sustainably manage development in key ... More >>

Aranui to celebrate turnaround

Thursday, 23 April 2009, 4:44 pm | Christchurch City Council

Aranui’s ten-year bid to turn itself into a strong and safe place to live in has been deemed an ongoing success in a qualitative research undertaken last year. More >>

Social Housing Future Assured

Thursday, 23 April 2009, 2:56 pm | Christchurch City Council

The Christchurch City Council has assured the future of its social housing units. Councillors today decided on rent increases to take effect over the next six years - effectively ensuring that much needed maintenance and refurbishment can be done ... More >>

Accessing Small Grants From The Council

Thursday, 23 April 2009, 11:59 am | Christchurch City Council

The Christchurch City Council is running information sessions for community and sporting groups wanting to know more about how to apply for funding from its Small Grants Fund. Six public seminars will be run across the city over the next fortnight; ... More >>

Commemorating peace on ANZAC Day:

Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 11:16 am | Christchurch City Council

As the years go by, the crowds at services commemorating ANZAC Day grow bigger every year, and the elements of gratitude and pride are becoming more apparent. The age range at Dawn Services, from babies to people in wheelchairs, reflects this. People ... More >>

Garden City tribute to soldiers in City Mall

Monday, 20 April 2009, 11:18 am | Christchurch City Council

Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker today unveiled the first in a series of bronze plaques in City Mall that will form a tribute to New Zealand soldiers. The Path of Remembrance is a public artwork that pays tribute to the actions of New Zealanders in active ... More >>

Additional Work On Centennial Lane Pool

Friday, 17 April 2009, 1:27 pm | Christchurch City Council

Scheduled maintenance on pools at the Centennial Recreation and Sport Centre has uncovered the need for additional tiling work in the lane pool - and means the lane pool will stay closed for an additional week. More >>

Council unanimously adopts River development plan

Thursday, 9 April 2009, 5:30 pm | Christchurch City Council

The future preservation of the Heathcote River was ensured today when Council unanimously adopted the draft Mid-Heathcote River/Opawaho Linear Park Master Plan. More >>

Centennial Closing For Upgrade

Thursday, 9 April 2009, 3:46 pm | Christchurch City Council

The Centennial Recreation and Sport Centre is closing on Monday evening (13 April) for scheduled maintenance. More >>

Sustainable approach to recycling East Stand

Thursday, 9 April 2009, 3:02 pm | Christchurch City Council

Christchurch City Council’s Target Sustainability programme has had a major success, with almost 100% of demolition waste from the new AMI Stadium stand development reused or recycled, instead of going to landfill. More >>

City Mall road closure this weekend

Wednesday, 8 April 2009, 10:29 am | Christchurch City Council

Colombo Street will be closed between Hereford and Lichfield streets from tomorrow evening (Thursday, 9 April) to allow tram tracks to be laid along Cashel Street where it crosses Colombo Street over the Easter weekend. More >>

Organics wheelie bins on the way

Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 11:41 am | Christchurch City Council

Some Christchurch households will not receive their 80-litre organics wheelie bin in time for their first collection next week on 17 April. More >>

Next phase of Akaroa Historic Area project

Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 11:39 am | Christchurch City Council

Akaroa residents and visitors can expect to see groups of people walking the town with clipboards and cameras over ensuing months, as the next phase of work begins on the Akaroa Historic Area project. More >>

Canterbury kids rise to Reading Crusade challenge

Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 10:18 am | Christchurch City Council

Some of Canterbury’s keenest young readers will get a chance to meet a Crusader rugby star this Thursday at the Reading Crusade prizegiving. The Reading Crusade is over for 2009, but has been an outstanding success with 24,000 children taking ... More >>

Reining in energy use in Christchurch

Monday, 6 April 2009, 10:10 am | Christchurch City Council

Christchurch City’s energy use is around 11 percent of its $15 billion GDP, 29 percent of its $5.5 billion total household income and increases at a rate of two percent per annum. If left unchecked, the annual increase in energy usage in the ... More >>

Issue with heating at Centennial

Friday, 3 April 2009, 3:45 pm | Christchurch City Council

Winter is coming early to the Centennial Leisure Centre, with the breakdown of the complex's main heating pump - used to heat both air and water. A new pump part has been ordered, but has to come from Australia and isn't expected to be installed until ... More >>