The legacy lives on for fallen Hagley Park trees as local chairbler David Laird provides the timber a second life.
Play options at four neighbourhood parks in the fast-growing Halswell area are being weighed up because the existing play equipment has reached the end of its life.
Fifty years after it was built, the elephant slide in Bishopdale Park has been immortalised in a new children’s book called Elephant Park.
A weekly community-led running event will be trialled at Bottle Lake Forest Park in the city’s north-east starting on Saturday 8 October.
A popular park in the Ōtākaro Avon River Corridor (OARC) will be upgraded and expanded as restoration work continues in the former red zone.
In-house teams of Christchurch City Council staff will be created to maintain the city’s parks.
A corner of North Hagley Park has been planted with wildflowers to help boost the city’s bee population.
An upgrade and extension of the St Albans skate park means beginner scooters and skaters will be better able to use the facility.
Kids will be able to burn-off excess energy at their local playground when the country moves to Alert Level 2 on Thursday.
A new “multi-sport zone” will be built at the Lyttelton Recreation Ground as part of a redevelopment of the site.