Greetings from your Community Board

Highlights from our latest meeting

Our Community Board met on Monday 17 August. Some highlights of our meeting included approving funding for a range of fantastic community projects as part of our 2020/2021 Strengthening Communities Fund. We also received an update on the New Brighton Tiny Huts and considered options to install additional on-street mobility parking on Seaview Road, New Brighton. This report has been written in response to a request from a resident who raised concern about insufficient accessible parking in this area. You can read the minutes to see what else we discussed and find out the dates, times and details of upcoming Community Board and Council meetings here.

Read our new Community Board Plan

The Waitai/Coastal Burwood Community Board are proud to present our 2020–2022 Community Board Plan. This plan provides an overview of the board’s role and our vision for the local community and identifies some priority projects that we would like to achieve over the next three years.

#Flashback photo of the week

Check out this photo of downtown New Brighton, circa 1960, shared by Jo Zervos, our community board member for the Coastal ward. Thanks Jo for sharing!

Subsidies now available for neighborhood events

Have you ever wanted to organise a neighbourhood gathering? Perhaps you've always wanted to put on a potluck for the whole street? Summer with your neighbours is about bringing people closer together and celebrating the unique and diverse mix of each neighbourhood.
The Community Boards are making small subsidies available to help support Summer with your neighbours events. Applications are now open until Sunday 6 September, 2020
Apply online at: ccc.govt.nz/GetTogether

 Planting event welcomes rainbow community

Christchurch’s rainbow community will have the chance to go green at a volunteer planting event that's a first for the city.
Members of the LGBTQIA+ community are invited to work alongside Christchurch City Council park rangers at Plant with Pride, planting native trees in the Styx Loop Conservation Park in Marshland on Saturday 22 August from 10am until 12pm.

New home for cricket at Burwood Park

After many years of work, with fundraising and campaigning from the East, Christchurch Shirley Cricket Club Junior and Senior Committees, Burwood Park finally will have a home artificial cricket wicket for Juniors to play on. Thanks to the local Community Board, Canterbury Junior Cricket Association, Christchurch Metropolitan Cricket, East Shirley Parents and Christchurch City Council, the East side has another asset for sport.

The ground will be named after popular, and well known Christchurch Metropolitan Cricket life member, East Shirley and Christchurch sporting stalwart John W. Grocott, who passed away this year. His sons Tim (current ECSCC President and Shirley Boys High Principal) and David Grocott (Senior Head Coach for East Shirley and SBHS) put the shovel in the ground to get it all started. The pitch is on the old Burwood Bowling Club site.

Thanks to Andrew Robertson from ARconcrete and Chris Lewis from TerraFirma Turf for helping East Shirley get the project across the line. The concrete went down on 19 August, so the J.W Grocott Oval will be ready for use in February 2021, with everything going to plan.

New dates for The Walking Festival

We have postponed The Walking Festival until 2021. The two week festival will be held between 17 April to 2 May 2021. Keep an eye out for updates on our Facebook.  If you’re keen to be part of the festival as a walk leader please visit their website for more details. 

Building stronger, connected communities

What does a strong community look, sound and feel like? How can we build connections to meet the new realities of our world? Council is revisiting its 2007 Strengthening Communities Strategy and wants your feedback on  how we can build and strengthen community connections over the next 10 years.

Metro Sports Facility – Aquatic Sensory Experience

When Metro Sports Facility opens in 2022, it will be the largest aquatic and indoor recreation and leisure venue in New Zealand. It will include an Aquatic Sensory Experience. Let us know how you would like to use the space.

 Feedback wanted on CHCH is LIT

Christchurch residents are being asked their thoughts on CHCH is LIT – a new outdoor lighting festival that ran in the central city and New Brighton in July.

Get information and advice about COVID-19

Council's facilities are open during Alert Level 2, with many things in place to help keep people  well. Please stay at home if you, or anyone in your house, is unwell, and practice physical distancing when visiting our facilities.

For the latest updates on Council facilities and services please visit Newsline.

For everything you need to know about COVID-19, visit Unite against COVID-19.

For health concerns and advice, visit Ministry of Health.