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So, the Christchurch City Council is asking us what it should do about the new stadium, Te Kaha, now we know that the cost has blown out to nearly $700 mil
Christchurch CBD dwelling goal 'unrealistic', councillor says Anan Zaki © RNZ / Alexander Robertson Christchurch's plan to have 20,000 people living in the city centre within the next few years looks increasingly set to fail. The latest official figures show the Central Business District's population hovering at around 7000, stubbornly lower than before the earthquakes struck more than a decade ago. The council has an ambitious target to nearly triple the current number in the CBD by 2028. It is a revised date, as its initial goal was to have 20,000 people in the city centre...
JULIA ATKINSON-DUNN/Supplied Following the devastating earthquakes of 2010 and 2011, the Christchurch rebuild has introduced planting to delight all levels of plant lover. When I took up the challenge of transforming my backyard with zero knowledge, I was left wondering how anyone else in my position got started? It didn’t come naturally! Well, my pale green-thumbed friends, the answer is literally waving at you from the planted-up traffic island down the road, or the park your local playground is in, the front gate of the local school or even in a cemetery garden. JULIA ATKINSON-DUNN/Supp...