Christchurch City Council will soon start paying staff money owed to them under the Holidays Act 2003, after leave entitlements and pay for some staff were inadvertently miscalculated.

A date has been set for Christchurch’s first ever Matariki Fireworks Spectacular.

There mightn’t be much activity on the sites yet, but work on the three new pedestrian bridges in the Ōtākaro Avon River Corridor is progressing at pace behind the scenes.

The Draft Ōtautahi Christchurch Climate Change Strategy has drawn 158 submissions.

Christchurch City Council is meeting at 9.30am on Thursday 13 May. The main items on the agenda for the public part of the meeting are:

Community groups are taking charge of former public pool ‘lifesavers’.

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū is celebrating the 40th anniversary of cult Kiwi record label Flying Nun with a new publication.

Familiar fronds will be rearranged in a new Anzac setting, complementing a nearby poppies artwork.

Changes are being proposed to Christchurch City Council planning rules to help enable Māori to build on land they own in the Papakāinga/Kāinga Nohoanga zone.

Christchurch City Council is proposing changes to who pays for the city’s vital land drainage work, as part of its Draft Long Term Plan 2021–31.