Greetings from your Community Board

Message from the Chair

Kia ora koutou,
It's an important time for our community as public consultation on the Council's draft Long Term Plan 2021 - 31, our city's game plan for how, and what, we plan to spend over the next 10 years, is now open. We need to balance investing in our core infrastructure, including upgrading our drinking water supply network, and ensuring our city reduces its greenhouse gas emissions, with keeping rates increases affordable. If you'd like to know more about what Council projects are planned for your area, have a look at this handy online tool.
Our Community Board will be holding drop-in sessions over the next few weeks - there's more details below - and we hope to see you there and answer any questions you may have. Consultation is also open on our city's draft climate change strategy, so check out both consultations and have your say.
Our Community Board will be making submissions on these proposals. We’ll continue to keep you updated as we make progress.
Stay together, look after one another.

Board Chair, Emma Norrish

Our Draft Long Term Plan 2021-31

Our Draft Long Term Plan 2021–31 public consultation opened last week. Everyone will have the chance to provide feedback on the proposals in the Draft Long Term Plan 2021–31 until midnight on Sunday 18 April at ccc.govt.nz/longtermplan. It is your opportunity to have a say on whether we have come up with the right game plan for our city and Banks Peninsula for the next 10 years. Your feedback really does make a difference.

In this Draft Long Term Plan 2021–31 we have focused on the areas where our residents have told us they want us to do better. We’re investing in maintaining and improving our existing roads, footpaths and cycleways and upgrading our cycle networks. This comes at a time when we are continuing to respond and adapt to COVID-19 and climate change.

Your Community Board is holding drop-in sessions over the coming weeks for anyone wanting to find out more about the Long Term Plan 2021–31. You can see more information on this below.

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Come and talk to us about the LTP

Come along to one of these events to hear from Council staff and your Waipapa/Papanui-Innes Community Board members.

Monday 22 March
Anytime between 10.30am – 11.30am
Papanui Service Centre and Library, 5 Restell Street

Friday 26 March
Anytime between 10.30am – 11.30am
Mac Farlanes on the Park Café, 17 Acheson Avenue, Shirley

Online search tool

You can find the projects we plan to spend money on in the next 10 years of the Long Term Plan 2021–31 by visiting our new online search tool. The tool is a visual representation of all the projects that we’re proposing to fund over the next decade – more than 800 of them. You can search by the area you live in, the type of project, the project name or a key word.

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Climate change action centre stage in budget

An important focus of our 10-year draft budget is on reducing greenhouse gas emissions – through making changes to the way we travel, the waste we create and the energy we use.

We will also invest in developing our understanding of the impacts of climate change so we can better prepare and respond to these together with our communities, and to meet the Government’s requirements.

This is our first Long Term Plan to include a climate change lens over everything, and it won’t be the last. More work needs to be done, and future Long Term Plans will reflect this.

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Changes to libraries’ opening hours proposed

A streamlining of opening hours at Christchurch libraries is among the cost-saving measures we’re proposing in our 10-year draft budget.
We’ve looked at when our libraries are at their busiest and when we can reduce opening hours with minimal impact on how, and when, residents like to use their local library.

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Excess water use targeted rate for households

We’re proposing introducing an excess water use charge for households that use significantly more water than the average.
This charge would apply to any household that uses more than 700 litres per day.
Charging for excess water use would help us manage our demand better and also reduce our pumping costs over summer. It would also mean, long term, we wouldn’t need to spend as much money on expanding our water supply network just to cater for the small proportion of very high users.

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Capital spending: What we’re proposing for next 10 years

For the first three years of this Draft Long Term Plan, we’ve set our core capital spend at $400 million in the first year, $420 million in the second year, and $443 million in the third year.
We’re making sure we can do all the work we want to deliver in the timeframe we’ve set.

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Targeted rate proposed to help preserve city’s heritage

We’re proposing a targeted rate to help fund the restoration of some of our central city’s most treasured heritage buildings.

We’re proposing that every ratepayer will pay this rate and it will be calculated as a number of cents per dollar of capital value.

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Investing in resource recovery

We’re proposing in our Draft Long Term Plan to invest in our recycling and organics facilities to enable more waste to be diverted from landfill. Upgrading our transfer stations will ensure we provide safe and accessible facilities for disposal of rubbish, while investing in resource recovery centres at each site and education programmes will help divert more waste from landfill.

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$235 million for cycling in the city

We’re proposing spending $235 million on cycling projects and programmes over the next 10 years. This includes a significant portion of ‘shovel-ready’ funding from the Government and Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency funding.
Getting more people cycling is key to addressing climate change, creating healthier communities and reducing congestion.

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$337m for transforming the Ōtākaro Avon River Corridor

A total of $337 million in capital development funding is earmarked in the Draft Long Term to transforming the Ōtākaro Avon River Corridor into the jewel in Christchurch’s crown. Regenerating the 602-hectare Ōtākaro Avon River Corridor into a place where residents and visitors can explore, play, connect and learn is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create a legacy that benefits future generations

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Our plan for protecting our drinking water

We’re investing in upgrading the city’s drinking water supply network, including upgrading well heads, drilling new and deeper wells, upgrading reservoirs, replacing older pipes, and installing new ‘smart’ monitoring systems and flow meters.
In the next 30 years we need to keep protecting our drinking water supply by upgrading and renewing infrastructure and extending the network to supply water to new developments. We propose spending $836 million over the next 10 years.

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Have your say on the draft Ōtautahi Christchurch Climate Change Strategy 2021

Climate change is the biggest challenge of our time. It is already affecting our weather, health and wellbeing, natural environment, taonga species, mahinga kai, food production, biosecurity, infrastructure, and the economy.

Our draft climate change strategy is a long-term framework for Christchurch's climate change journey. It's part of a wider conversation about how we can all work together to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, prepare for the changes that are ahead of us, and respond to the ongoing effects of climate change.

Read the full draft Ōtautahi Christchurch Climate Change Strategy [PDF, 1.9 MB].

We want to hear what you think about our draft Strategy. Have we got it right? Is there anything we've missed? Do you have any feedback on how we should develop and deliver the action programmes within the strategy? Consultation is open until 25 April 2021.

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Make your voice heard

We’d like your feedback on the draft Long Term Plan 2021–31 so that we can consider our communities' views before we make any final decisions.

There are a number of ways you can give feedback:

Written feedback

Written submissions can be made until Sunday 18 April 2021.

Fill out our online submission form at ccc.govt.nz/longtermplan (preferred)
Fill out a submission form (available from libraries and service centres).
Email your feedback to cccplan@ccc.govt.nz
Post a letter to: Freepost 178 (no stamp required)

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