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List 1 Most important council services that respondent knows about (q1a)

 

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• Rubbish and Recycling Services
• Road and Footpath Maintenance
• Water Services
• Libraries
• Parks and Reserves
• Sewage
• Bus Services
• Street and Gutter Cleaning
• Entertainment and Festivals
• General Maintenance of City
• Swimming Pools
• Drainage
• Social Issues Including Employment
• Electricity
• Street Lighting
• Car Parking
• Recreational Facilities
• Sports Grounds and Stadiums
• Housing
• Service Centres
• Traffic
• Dog Control
• Environment Services
• Museums and Galleries
• Town Planning
• Other

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Rubbish and Recycling Services

• City council compost (envy)
• Collecting garden rubbish
• Collecting of rubbish
• Collecting rubbish (4)
• Dump (3)
• Emptying rubbish tins in parks
• Kerbside recycling
• Garbage
• Garbage collection
• Litter control (2)
• Metro rubbish
• Recycling (6)
• Refuse (6)
• Refuse centres (2)
• Refuse collection
• Refuse station (3)
• Refuse Station improved
• Refuse stations
• Refuse tip
• Removal of rubbish (including recyclables)
• Rubbish
• Rubbish - metro station
• Rubbish and recycling
• Rubbish art centre
• Rubbish bags (9)
• Rubbish bags and Mayors fund
• Rubbish collection
• Rubbish collection and disposal
• Rubbish collecting (2)
• Rubbish collection (221)
• Rubbish collection and bags
• Rubbish collections (3)
• Rubbish disposal (11)
• Rubbish disposal and environmental issues
• Rubbish removal (8)
• Rubbish removal/recycling
• Rubbish services
• Rubbish/recycling
• The dump
• The rubbish (2)
• The rubbish collection (2)
• Waste collection
• Waste disposal

Road and Footpath Maintenance

• Cycle lanes
• Footpath maintenance (2)
• Footpaths (18)
• Footpaths and roading
• Footpaths and roading
• Footpaths repaired
• Footpaths street maintenance
• General care and roading
• General services of streets.
• Good roading
• Good roads
• Keeping road and footpaths
• Keeping roads in good condition
• Looking after footpaths and streets
• Looking after the roads
• Maintain footpaths (2)
• Maintenance of roading system
• Maintenance of streets (2)
• Paths and roads
• Road
• Road and footpath upkeep
• Road conditions
• Road maintenance (21)
• Road services (2)
• Road works (6)
• Roading (89)
• Roading and footpaths (3)
• Roading and guttering
• Roads (67)
• Roads and footpaths (5)
• Roads maintenance
• Roadways
• Road-works
• Street appeal
• Streeting
• Streets (2)
• Streets parks and reserves
• Streets - roading
• The road maintenance
• The roads (2)
• Upkeep of roads

Water Services

• Good water
• Storm-water
• Storm-water disposal
• Supply and maintenance of water
• The water (6)
• Water (155)
• Water board
• Water services (3)
• Water supplies (2)
• Water supply (28)
• Waterworks (2)

Libraries

• Libraries (44)
• Libraries sports facilities
• Library (124)
• Library services (2)
• Library - mobile
• Public libraries
• Public library (2)
• Reading (2)
• The library (6)

Parks and Reserves

• Botanic garden maintenance
• Botanic gardens (5)
• Garden maintenance
• Gardens (2)
• Gardens in the area
• Hagley Park
• Looking after the playgrounds
• Maintenance of garden and foreshore and parks
• Maintenance of parks
• Maintenance parks
• Park
• Park and reserves
• Park maintenance
• Parks (64)
• Parks and recreation areas (2)
• Parks and reserves (2)
• Parks and gardens (5)
• Parks and general environment
• Parks and playgrounds
• Parks and recreation (9)
• Parks and reserves (15)
• Parks maintenance
• Parks playing fields
• Parks upkeep
• Parks, playing fields
• Parks/recreation
• Parks and reserves maintenance
• Playgrounds
• Recreational parks and grounds
• The beach walkways
• The gardens
• The parks (5)
• The recreational parks
• Upkeep of parks
• Upkeep on all the gardens
• Upkeep of gardens (public ones)

Sewage

• Sewage (36)
• Sewage and storm water
• Sewage treatment
• Sewage, drainage, water
• Sewer (3)
• Sewer water
• Sewerage (38)
• Sewerage disposals
• Sewerage system
• Sewerage/drainage
• Sewerage

Bus Services

• Bus (5)
• Bus routes
• Bus service (15)
• Bus services (2)
• Bus shelters
• Bus transport
• Buses (21)
• Buses - transport
• Buses?
• Public transport (3)
• The bus service
• The buses (2)
• Transport (14)
• Transport (public)
• Transport - buses (2)

Street and Gutter Cleaning

• Clean streets (2)
• Cleaning of gutters
• Cleaning services
• Cleaning street
• Cleaning streets
• Cleaning the leaves at the front of the house
• Cleaning the streets and gutters
• Cleanliness and tidy
• Cleanliness of streets
• Cleanliness of the city
• Clearing gutters
• Doing Square up
• Efficient in keeping streets clean
• Gutter cleaning
• Gutter sweeping
• Guttering/drains
• Gutters blocked
• Gutters clean
• Gutters cleaned
• Keeping gutters clean
• Keeping streets clean (5)
• Keeping streets tidy (2)
• Road cleaning
• Street beautifying
• Street cleaning (16)
• Street maintenance (7)
• Street sweepers
• Street sweeping

Entertainment and Festivals

• Concerts in the park
• Entertainment
• Entertainment and festivals (2)
• Entertainment eg. Classical Sparks
• Entertainment festivals etc.
• Events (3)
• Festivals (3)
• Festivals and events (3)
• Festivals for free or paying
• Free concerts
• Friday concerts in Square
• Provide free entertainment
• Putting on events and festivals
• Sparks in the park
• Summertimes (12)

General Maintenance of City

• Beautification of the city (2)
• Beautifying the city (2)
• Continually beautify the city
• General city beautification
• General maintenance
• General maintenance especially Esplanade and beach
• General services
• Keep city tidy
• Keeping Christchurch beautiful
• Keeping Christchurch tidy
• Keeping the central city going
• Maintenance
• Maintenance of grass berms
• Overall maintenance
• Providing a clean well-run city
• Sanitation (2)
• Taking care of the river banks
• Tidiness of beaches
• Tidiness of city
• Trees pruned on street
• Trimming trees
• Upkeep of city

Swimming Pools

• Pool
• Pools (4)
• Swimming pools (18)

Drainage

• Drainage (17)
• Drainage (storm water)
• Drains

Social Issues Including Employment

• ACE employment scheme for mature adults
• Citizens advice
• Community buildings
• Community facilities - parks libraries
• Community resources
• Community support
• Crèche
• Getting business for new jobs
• Holiday programmes (2)
• Looking after pensioners
• Mayors welfare fund
• Providing services for people
• Social programmes
• Voluntary groups
• Work
• Youth card
• Access

Electricity

• Electricity (9)
• Power (4)
• Southpower (2)
• Southpower - electricity

Street Lighting

• Lighting (3)
• Lighting of streets
• Street lighting (10)

Car Parking

• Car parking (2)
• Care of parks
• Car parking (buildings)
• Car parks (2)
• Council carports
• Parking
• Parking building
• Parking buildings (2)
• Parking by Library
• Parking facilities

Recreational Facilities

• Provision of sports stadiums, gyms, pools etc.
• Recreation (3)
• Recreation - parks etc
• Recreational
• Recreational centres
• Recreational facilities (3)

Sports Grounds and Stadiums

• QEII complex (7)
• Sporting facilities
• Sporting grounds (2)
• Sports grounds - cricket
• Sports parks
• Sports stadiums

Housing

• Accommodation
• Help with pensioners flats
• Housing (5)
• Housing-council accommodation
• Maintenance of respondents flat
• Maintenance on my house
• Maintenance on our flats
• Provide accommodation

Service Centres

• Service centre (3)
• Service centres (5)
• Service centres (Riccarton)
• Service Centres - easy to pay rates here

Traffic

• Road safety (2)
• Safety on roads
• Traffic (2)
• Traffic control (2)
• Traffic movement (2)
• Traffic signs

Dog Control

• Controlling dogs
• Dog control (9)

Environment Services

• Air pollution
• Clean air - smoke-free
• Controls for pollution
• Environment
• Environmental services
• Environment maintenance
• General environment
• Maintain green city environment
• Overall city environmental planning

Museums and Galleries

• Art centre
• Art gallery
• Art gallery and museum
• Arts (museum and gallery)
• Museum (2)

Town Planning

• Town planning (5)

Other

• Attractions in city
• Building consents (2)
• Building inspectors
• Building permits
• Bylaws
• Changes in the town
• Checking the berms
• Corner of Mayland and Marineer needs an island
• Communications
• Cut my lawns
• Efficient administration of civic affairs
• Efficiency of customer relations
• Fire control in backyard
• Free rubbish bags
• General aid to the Police
• Half price taxis
• Household services
• Inspection of buildings
• Lawns cut (2)
• Mail
• Maintaining earth that could be potentially unstable
• Maintenance of my property
• My garage (on council land)
• Noise control
• Nuisances
• Payment of rates
• Planting in the roadways
• Post boxes
• Power and water
• Promote sport/recreation
• Promotion of province
• Provide balance in community affairs
• Public relations
• Public toilets (3)
• Rates (2)
• Regulating health activities
• Safety (2)
• Schooling
• Services in general
• Services to the house
• Source of information
• Tea kiosk
• The Foreshore South Brighton
• To be accessible to residents
• Toilets
• Tourists activities
• Transfer buses
• Utilities
• Water and sewage
• Water and drainage
• Water, drainage, sewage
• Water/sewerage

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