- Crime
- Racist attacks by skinheads
- Crime, teenage crime, skinheads
- Unsupervised children
- Unemployment
- Lack of community
- Racism in the city
- Gang problem
- Gangs flourishing in the city - it's offensive
- Poverty
- Safety for residents
- Some young people's behaviour/dress concerns
- Young children - their health and well-being
- Increase in crime
- Crime
- Infants in the Square who should be at school
- Violence in the city
- Rental housing - co-operation from landlords
- Street children
- Street kids and glue-sniffers
- Gangs and wallies around town
- Young people in Latimer Square - lack of motivation and
nothing to do
- Gangs and violence
- Street kids' after dark antics
- The elderly - bus services
- Young kids loose on the streets
- Safety on the streets especially at night
- Gangs
- Behaviour of some young people
- Not enough police
- Eliminating gangs
- Crime - car stolen and motorbike
- About families not having enough for food etc
- Street kids
- Homeless people
- Street kids
- Street kids
- Young people in general
- Crime in Aranui state housing area
- Young people and drugs
- Young teenagers need more activities. So few places for
them to get together outside of bars and pubs
- The children who walk along Bexley walkway often use foul
language and fight a lot
- Youth and school truancy
- Street kids
- Young people hanging around the Square
- Crime
- Differences in standards of living are too marked -
people in lower income areas need life-skills education
- Teenagers need more to do
- Continuing and increased leisure activities available to
youth - places to go and things to do, wide variety of
activities
- Street kids / lack of supervision in public places
- Crime - under-policed
- Street kids
- Too many people coming to live here. The city is getting
too big
- The unemployment is quite high
- The gang situation, concern for children - their safety,
their connections with gangs
- Safety especially in the Square on Friday and Saturday
late nights and early mornings, especially for females
- Hospital waiting lists. The waits are appalling
- 3am closing could cause more problems
- The young ones in town (hanging around)
- The general public attitude towards people whose
intellectual, psychiatric and physical disabilities are
socially seen
- Health care and care of retarded people or people with
special needs
- Crime and young kids hanging out in the Square
- Homeless
- Too many little restaurants now licensed
- Street kids
- Young people don't feel safe even in the daytime
- Health system - access
- Would like to see more for young people to do
- More help for genuine people wanting to kick their drug
habits, not the useless, escalating methadone programme
- Glue-sniffers
- Kids on the street
- Relocation of mental patients to the community
- Glue-sniffers - should be illegal
- Drugs and pub
- Street kids, glue-sniffers
- Dealings with Social Welfare should be more accessible
and attitude is very bad there
- Street kids
- Young people's behaviour in town {after drinking}
- Glue-sniffers in the parks
- Street violence after dark, particularly on weekends
- Teenage drunkenness and violence
- Safety on the streets and in the city at night
- Too many unsupervised children roaming the streets
- Amount of unemployment
- The distressed youth leading to soul dead adults
- Poverty
- The drug problem especially in schools
- Street kids
- Youth drunkenness
- Templeton Hospital being closed
- Racism
- Glue-sniffers are a problem
- Amount of crime
- Young people hanging around Square and inner-city
- Street kids
- Gangs
- Young people and drugs
- Unemployment
- The gang houses - seems like separate regulations for
them. They should abide by the laws that everyone else
does
- Skinheads
- Crime
- Street kids
- The young people on the streets
- Children in crisis - teenage reactions
- Street kids
- Health
- Alcoholics in Latimer Square
- Street gangs
- More and more people struggling financially
- Public safety - crime in public places
- Too many cars
- Gangs, skinheads etc - level of this on the rise
- Street kids
- Young people in central city in Square. It has changed a
lot
- Templeton, how it's going to end up - those poor people
- Not enough for young people to do - 15-19 year olds
- Young people who can't find work
- License given to prostitution in the city
- Kids on the street, around South City
- Gangs - in the Square
- Young fellows, drugs etc
- Vandalism and graffiti is a real problem. Spray cans
could be banned
- Education - go out of zone to take the children to a
better school
- Unemployment
- I've been abused twice - so racism for me is a problem
which affected me
- Street kids
- Gangs
- The youth in the city centre, in the fact that they're
wandering around and a lot of them don't seem to have
very constructive things to do (perhaps they need more
variety of things to do)
- Dog control bylaws - in Blenheim you can apply to be a
responsible dog owner and it costs less to register your
dog
- Safety out on the streets at night, in the suburbs, also
mainly in the city
- Parts of the city are unsafe
- Flats for elderly - council provided
- Health
- Violence
- Youngsters attacking old ladies
- Amount of violence among younger folk
- Pedestrian crossings
- Young kids hanging around in the city
- Young kids roaming the streets
- Number of young kids out at night
- Street kids - especially those in town
- The racial tensions - particularly with Asians
- Young people drinking - in moderation only
- Youth unemployment
- Young children hanging around Square and drinking around
city
- Young kids on street after dark
- Poverty - street people
- Lack of activities for youth
- High crime rate
- The street kids around the centre of the city
- Street kids
- Violence in the city
- The gangs crowd town
- The way the media blows everything out of proportion
- Gang violence
- Poverty level
- The young in town
- Young unemployed people. Council scheme should be
encouraged
- Are there enough safe parks for children?
- Gangs
- Skate boards in Victoria Square should be stopped
- Crime
- Increasing rate of homeless
- Truant kids and homey gangs
- The Square - people that make a nuisance of themselves
- Youth unemployment and associated crime
- Drug and glue-sniffers that hang around the town
- Safety on the street and in your own home
- Teenagers - drugs and glue sniffing during the day and
night in and around the Square
- Poverty
- Increase in crime
- Friday night driving up and down Colombo St speeding and
drinking and drugs - young people
- Young people living on the streets
- The removal of caravan from Square for those "less
fortunate"
- The public hospital - all aspects (facilities, care,
parking - everything)
- Glue-sniffers and winos in Latimer Square
- Funding for schools
- Young folk hanging round streets a lot with nothing to do
- The new refugees without sufficient support when they
arrive - language particularly
- Breakdown in the traditional family
- Glue-sniffers
- Crime rate
- Crime
- Lack of police
- Gangs
- Unemployment
- Youth unemployment
- Safety for older people living alone
- Kids in the Square ie teenagers
- Crime - insufficient police
- Solo parent families
- Glue-sniffing kids
- The increase in crime
- Gangs - too many, not good for safety
- The homeless
- Spraying weed killers etc
- We've certainly got a social underclass
- The gangs
- Street kids - help is required
- People with no purpose hanging around the Square
- The Square being an unsafe place
- Burglaries in Christchurch
- Muggings, assaults, crime in general
- Crime
- Street kids
- Racial intolerance
- Glue-sniffers
- Gang tension - Asian youth
- More mother rooms for breast-feeding, not part of toilets
or changing rooms
- Immigrants in schools not able to speak English -
disadvantaging other pupils
- Street kids
- Erect new houses in rundown areas
- Unemployment
- Immigration issues
- Young people gather in Square - threatening to walkers by
- Police the young people in built up areas -
glue-sniffers/drugs
- Drugs (particularly in schools)
- Gangs
- Unemployment
- Unemployment
- Amount of assaults happening in inner city
- Street kids in town
- Glue-sniffers
- The crime rate
- The crime that goes on after midnight
- The heart unit
- Teenagers who loiter
- Gang violence
- Teenagers - more facilities to keep them off the streets
- Increased number of kids leaving home at a young age
- Crime
- The crime rate
- Probably young kids like the glue-sniffers - young gangs
etc
- The street kids and the gangs
- Maybe the glue-sniffers you see around - they don't
really promote the city in any way
- Concerned about stopping kids ending up on the streets
- Gangs
- The apparent reduction of the police force and the
increase in crime
- Kids in the Square - drugs, glue-sniffing etc - they've
got to have somewhere to go
- Shortage of police
- How safe the city centre is at night
- Teen drinking - especially at a lot of the events (eg
Classical Sparks)
- Heart unit
- Somalians - lack of support
- Number of young children people out after dark
- Street kids - rough element in town
- Police - need more of everything
- Crime
- Crime
- Violence and crime around the city streets
- Gangs
- Lack of purpose - alienation from the community
especially in teenage males. Raising skill levels. Lack
of social and household management and child management
- Homeless people Hereford St / Latimer Square
- Lack of personal safety - feel frightened
- Teenagers committing suicide
- Crime/burglaries
- Too many itinerant youths wandering the streets
- Gangs
- Gang problems
- Health - heart services
- I know that people in some areas of Christchurch aren't
as well looked after as we are up here on the hill
- Sidewalk cafes in the road of people walking
- Dog control
- High number of beneficiaries
- Large number of young people into substance abuse in city
and at events
- Street kids, homeless people, glue-sniffers
- Skateboarders
- Street kids
- Crime
- Immigrants - allowing too many into the country
- Poverty
- Gangs
- Rise of burglaries
- Safety in the Square
- Gangs
- Teenage problems
- Crime in inner city
- Public hospital - lack of staff and too many chiefs
- Unemployment leading to disorderly and criminal behaviour
- Crime
- Community funding. Agency funding is getting less which
has had the effect of a much greater proportion of the
population requiring help from public organisations
- Citizens with mental health issues just thrown out into
the community by the CHE - no activities no one to talk
to. Some cannot cope - no jobs, nothing to do
- Skateboarders around Victoria Square - inappropriate
place
- Different racial groups fighting with each other
- Crime
- Facilities for the elderly
- Heart unit in Christchurch
- Young people. So many have no interests, not involved in
sport, don't care
- Burglaries / crime
- Safety at night in the city
- Homeless children
- Gangs
- Crime
- Policing is weak
- People having to go for food parcels
- More places for the youth to go where there's no drink
- Young people getting drunk in public
- Gangs - they should not be allowed the high fences
- Lack of police support to clamp down on glue-sniffers and
druggies etc
- The crime scene - burglaries, car thefts, druggies etc on
the streets
- Lack of surgery for certain things/heart and lung etc
- Racism - Pakehas are too intolerant of different races
- The poverty of people who have to get food and sometimes
a bed from the city mission
- Gangs - just allowing them to impose their will and to
break the law
- Safety for people in their homes and their property
- Gang problems
- Racial tension
- Skin heads
- Crime
- Gangs
- Kids in the Square
- Maintenance of law and order, particularly amongst our
youth and young people
- Safety of teenage daughter in Cathedral Square in late
afternoons while waiting for buses
- Street kids intimidating passers by
- Lots (but we want council involvement out)
- Glue-sniffers
- How do elderly people who cannot get out anymore, get on?
- Proliferation of gangs
- Latimer Square glue-sniffers and alcohol
- Crime
- The poor state of Christchurch Hospital
- Drugs
- Violent teenagers
- Needy (poverty)
- Violence - eg. Gang confrontations etc
- Insufficient recreational facilities for teenagers
- Crime
- Glue-sniffers
- Street people - appalling number for city this size
- People are a bit snobby
- Young people that gather down south city end of Colombo
St
- Lack of low cost rentals - people shouldn't be forced out
of city centre
- Gangs should be more closely monitored and not allowed
such power
- Children on the streets
- Council putting too much emphasis on social problems -
government should be picking up on those
- The drugs - kids getting into it now
- Unemployed, drugs, violence
- Need more facilities for over 12's in the holiday
periods. Plenty for younger kids but not for over 12's
- I would like to see activity for children so that they
don't roam the streets
- Thinks too many gangs of youths wandering streets
- Gang members, drugs, high fences. They are a law unto
themselves
- Too many children and youths around who are undisciplined
- The closing of Templeton Hospital
- Young glue-sniffers and the like around town
- The proposal to develop the Van Asch property
- No heart unit
- The amount of crime
- Health. Christchurch heart unit and the closing of
Templeton
- Health. Heart unit and lengthy waiting lists
- Crime
- Lack of caring
- Skateboarding and drag racing on public streets
- Prostitution by young girls who meet in Latimer Square
- Underage drinking on the streets
- Violence to pedestrians
- Violence between ethnic groups in the Square
- Crime
- Street kids
- Gangs
- Crime and violence
- Safety in the Square and city at night
- Crime
- The rise in crime
- Glue-sniffers and alcoholics in places like Latimer
Square
- Glue-sniffers in Latimer Square
- More leisure activities for young adults
- Health issues - waiting lists
- Youth behaviour and attitudes
- Levels of violent crime
- All the people who hang out in Latimer Square
- The high crime rate
- Teenage suicide rates
- Since they tried to move the street kids out of town, a
lot of them have come down to Brighton and are making a
mess of the place. That goes for the local kids too
- Concerned with the glue-sniffers round town
- Glue-sniffers
- Housing, cost of state housing especially in areas like
Aranui
- Safety in town and the Square at night
- Street kids/ don't like to see Cramner Square used
- Get rid of food stalls in Square
- Crime
- Persons hanging around the Square
- Street people - serious problem, need more cops
- The young people who hang about on the streets day and
night
- The disorder in the central city on Friday and Saturday
nights. Drunkenness, groups, skinheads, homies etc
mingling around. Motorheads driving around town
- People wandering around the streets who shouldn't be -
sick people, homeless, glue-sniffers. It frightens
people, makes them unwilling to go into the city
- The `gang' houses should be cleaned out not fortified.
Not allowed
- The isolation amongst the elderly
- Having people `hooning' in public places ie in South
Brighton Domain, motor bikes roaring through the pine
forest
- The gangs, everything about the gangs
- The presence of groups of young people in town at night
that creates fear in other young people so that they will
not go into town
- Street kids and glue-sniffers - I am shocked by their
state. Night life in the city centre shocked me and made
me feel unsafe
- Numbers of police
- Violence
- Young people - lack of leisure activities, also lack of
respect
- Glue-sniffers
- Glue-sniffers
- Street kids
- Young homeless
- Road safety for children
- Keeping a moderate priced accommodation programme going
- Poverty
- Crime. I never feel safe at night
- Upgrading Aranui housing. Plant trees in the street, try
to look after the area etc
- Taking responsibility for the care of children in the
home and in the community children who are disadvantaged
- Drug problem - the availability of street drugs
- Racism
- White power gangs and homies, Polynesian kids
- The street kids around town
- The large number of Somalians coming to live in
Christchurch with no desire to be part of the
Christchurch community
- All the inner-city housing is being knocked down for new
apartments when traditionally it used to be cheaper
housing for students and lower income people, who are now
being forced and consequently have less money
- Youth unemployment
- The street kids and glue-sniffers
- Teenagers with absolutely nothing to do
- Children living on the street
- Lack of suitable housing for mentally disturbed people
- Poverty - people on benefits
- Street kids
- Safety on the streets - skateboarders on footpaths and
cars parked on footpath
- Increase in violence
- Schools not having enough money
- Crime, youth
- Kids in town late at night causing mayhem and drinking
- Crime
- Crime and violence
- Mental health
- Number of working girls on the street - make it look very
shabby, prostitutes
- Gangs - their appearance intimidating
- Abortion
- What you do with young people on the streets, hoons in
cars
- Not enough car parking in Christchurch Women's' Hospital.
Who is the car park in the grounds for? I don't know if
it is for the public so I always park on the street and I
got a ticket
- The children sleeping in Latimer Square, street kids
- Lack of facilities for people under 65 who have been
discharged from hospital and unable to look after
themselves at home
- Feelings of threat from young people in the Squares
around the city
- Closing down the hearing service at the public hospital
(for hard-of-hearing people)
- Not enough units for pensioners and less well-off people
- Delinquent children in and around the malls alarming and
annoying people
- Fear of attack and rape
- Street kids are intimidating around the city
- Groups of people - gangs. I fear them
- Street kids/gangs
- Fighting in streets
- Skateboarders / roller blades
- Gangs
- Gangs
- Concerned about people from Templeton etc out in
community
- Crime
- Poverty
- Refugees being paid for and unable to participate in our
society ie no language and not making effort to fit into
our society
- Youth activities
- Skinheads and other violent groups
- Racism to the white person - at the moment it sounds like
the government and everyone are trying to give everything
to the Maori
- Truancy
- The poor
- Crime
- Racism
- The amount of taverns and bars opening up in town and the
lack of police control on them
- Bitter and twisted people. Neighbours don't talk to each
other
- Teenage drinking in town
- Grouping of lower socio-economic residents into certain
areas
- Gangs - unsafe areas
- Housing - not enough good housing
- Glue-sniffers
- Amount of young children in Square and town at night
- Safety for children generally eg people have to walk
their kids to school and they didn't used to
- Young people drinking alcohol
- Street kids and gangs
- Crime in the community
- Vandalism of our local park - Edmonds Gardens
- Maori issues
- Concern for young new families
- Glue-sniffers in public areas
- Spitting indiscriminately
- Central city not really safe like it used to be - number
of murders, bashing, violence
- Drunkards in city centre, Kilmore St - early hours of
morning on the road spewing all over place by Parkroyal
- Street kids
- Breakdown of family
- Eliminating graffiti
- Glue-sniffers
- Unemployment - especially for youth who have slipped
through the school system
- Crime on the streets
- Drug problems in schools
- Alcoholics
- Little children playing in gutters and older children
unsupervised in town etc
- The continuing visual presence of pornographic signs /
neon signs/ ads in papers
- The difficulty some New Zealanders are having in relating
to the influx of Asians
- Heart unit - the lack of
- I would like an identity card with a photo
- Street kids
- Cost of new cinemas
- Not enough for young people to do
- Affordable housing for all
- More for street kids and druggies - more help
- Racial tension
- Drugs
- Gangs and skinheads
- Too many liquor outlets
- General discipline (lack of)
- The needy people of the city
- Glue-sniffers in Latimer Square area
- Abusive language from children
- Lack of crime punishment/ crime prevention
- Crime
- Unemployment
- The gangs need to be sorted out
- Poverty
- Latimer Square generally is a problem
- Unemployment
- The problems youth are facing
- Street kids
- Elderly
- Alcohol in the Square
- Glue-sniffers
- Gangs
- Psychiatric community housing, need right support and
follow up treatment
- Gangs and violence
- That attention be given to pre-puberty kids from 9 years
on - better to work with them rather than with disturbed
teenagers
- Kids walking along Pages Rd glue-sniffing are a real
worry
- Drunk and disorderly behaviour in central city weekend
nights - respondent works until 11pm
- Unemployment - harder here than Auckland
- Gang and drug problems
- The Square activity, some of the kids
- Neighbourhood crime
- Acceptance of people that do not want to conform to
social etiquette
- Poverty
- Addictions
- Burglary
- Hospitals and health care
- Should be doing more to protect trees
- How big should Christchurch be?
- Speed of cars
- Unemployment
- The glue-sniffers, the police don't do anything about
them, yet they do so much about "pot" smokers.
You can't buy alcohol in dairies but you can buy glue
- My concern relates to why they're there in the first
place
- Gangs
- The bad state of the north (?) side of the Square, it
needs tidying up (the side by Warners)
- The `tagging' on the buildings
- Concerns about anti-social behavioural groups
- Racial problems
- Drug - alcohol use
- The prostitutes in Manchester St
- Glue-sniffers
- The graffiti that is found - they should be made to clean
it up
- Accessibility for the disabled
- Crime eg Assaults, burglary
- Gangs
- Gangs - their presence and existence
- Crime - more police attention to intruders
- More police to respond to crime eg burglary
- Racial arguments between skinheads and Asian groups
- Funding for health
- Lack of entertainment for those unable to afford to pay
- Young people with no direction eg. street kids
- Gangs
- Too much interference from small lobby groups
- Skateboarders in the city
- Violence and crime
- Too much violence relating to drug and alcohol abuse
- Adolescent drug takers
- Errant skateboarders
- Drunks
- There is some substandard housing
- The amount of crime - there's a lot of drug related crime
- Gangs being allowed - they should not be allowed
- Glue-sniffers
- Gangs
- Safety when living alone
- Prostitutes
- Council should provide cheap accommodation
- Clean up Latimer Square
- Racial discrimination
- Want more tables, chairs and grass in the Square
- Anti-foreigner issues
- Stop the natives devaluing cheap areas
- Lack of control with young children (kids lack
discipline)
- Adolescent crime / glue-sniffers
- Glue-sniffers / drug taking
- Feel unsafe when out walking
- Homeless
- Racial problems (Asians)
- Poverty
- Racial issues - skinheads attacking refugees
- Use of McLeans Island by hoons
- Under-privileged
- Teenage/young persons lack of supervision
- More police
- Drug use by teenagers
- Unemployment, layabouts (skinhead activities)
- Violence and bad attitudes amongst kids
- There is a bit of racial tension with the Asians
- The gangs
- The pubs stay open too late too long hours
- Crime
- Prostitution - male and female
- Shortage of ambulances
- Crime
- Health system - lack of!
- Drug situation is dreadful
- Unemployment
- Unemployment - increasing gap between rich and poor
- Stop cars driving up Colombo St or main routes blasting
out noise from loud mufflers
- Have been spat at by skinheads and had a bottle thrown at
me at 11am in the Square
- Gang situation
- Gangs
- Street kids
- Crime - I've been the victim of theft twice this year
- Skateboards - respondent uses High St
- Not enough done to promote public transport - increase in
traffic
- Glue-sniffers in Square
- Glue-sniffers
- Poverty
- Racial issues with Maoris and all other groups
- Alienation
- Supporting food banks
- Crime - petty thieving
- Young children being abused and insecure
- $1-million to social services - should be government
funded
- Beds in hospitals are unavailable in emergency situations
after an accident for people living alone
- The young people on the streets such as glue-sniffers.
The lights in the Square excellent
- Crime, break-ins, misbehaviour
- I do not want a hero parade in Christchurch
- Pets, dog fouling of neighbourhood
- Demolition of heritage buildings
- Gambling. I was sorry the casino got built
- Teenagers need to be looked after and valued more
- Safety from burglaries and the mess they make
- Activities for teenage children 10 -16 age group
- Traffic control. Not enough officers doing traffic duty
- Health of the poorer citizens
- Gangs. They should not be allowed to travel in convoy on
their motor bikes
- Lack of entertainment and amenities for young people
- Lack of care for mentally ill
- Gang problems. The control and influence for the bad that
they have
- Dogs. Too many in the suburbs have irresponsible owners
- Street kids who approach you in the Square for money
- Street kids and others who need help with housing and
other social problems
- Skinheads
- Street kids
- Race discrimination
- Young people
- Gang violence
- Too many lazy bludgers sponging off the council
- Increase in prostitution
- Intimidation of people by anti social groups eg skinheads
- Closing Templeton
- Violence
- Racial friction
- Lack of activities for younger people - 18 to 20
- Domestic violence
- Crime rate
- Inter-racial tension becoming problem
- Handicapped people in community need recreational
facilities
- Encourage pride in all areas - perhaps resident
consultation to improve their area
- Street kids, glue-sniffers
- Asian drivers petrify me. How can they get licenses when
they don't speak English
- Safety of women on their own
- Lack of funding for smaller community organisations
- The beating up of tourists and residents
- Lack of a secure area for the mentally sick
- Kids drinking, sniffing and drugging in south city
- Crime. Policing is pathetic - they haven't learned the
value of visual presence around the city
- Pollution from vehicles resulting in smog
- High health costs
- Lack of safety - gang element is now suburban
- Glue-sniffing
- Strangers at the door without ids
- Glue-sniffers in Square during the day - fighting in
public
- Crime
- Poverty
- Truancy in schools
- Street kids
- Family unity and safety
- The weather
- Skinheads / Asians
- Young people beating up Asians
- Street kids
- Equality - lack of. Widening gap of the haves and have
nots
- Upset about walking near gang headquarters
- Glue and meths addicts in Latimer Square
- Get rid of glue-sniffers
- Want Latimer Square made available to the public. Get rid
of glue-sniffers and addicts etc
- 13/14/15 yr. olds need to be got off the street to stop
them beating up people
- The gangs are a big problem. Gangs shouldn't be allowed
to gather
- Gang properties should not be allowed
- Huge gap between rich and poor
- The police have no power, or give up when teenagers are
under 16. Means that the other kids have no faith in the
system to protect them
- Breaking the intergenerational cycle of
multi-disfunctional families. And empowering them to
change their lives
- The lack of control the police have
- Infill housing
- Teenagers being allowed to hoon on the streets
- Unemployment
- Cafe/pub in Hampshire St (Aranui) underage drinking etc
extended hours. Should be closed
- Re-education of parents
- A negative orientation lifestyle - there needs to be an
attachment to work for getting the dole
- Underlying violence between those gangs
- The general poverty of certain groups within Christchurch
- High crime rate
- Racial issues and tensions
- Violence crime
- Children having no backyards
- Dogs
- Parking at hospital is atrocious
- Violence
- Street kids
- Unemployment - all these teenagers who don't seem to be
able to get jobs
- Child-care
- Gangs
- Children that are being mistreated
- The bashing of tourists in Christchurch
- The closure of Templeton Hospital
- Skateboarders and cyclists moving fast on footpaths
- The smell coming off the oxidation pool - time that was
sorted
- Crime and burglaries
- Cyclists going all over the Square - I don't feel safe
there
- Dangerous dogs
- Violence
- Unemployment
- Youth unemployment and crime
- Street kids
- Race relations between Asians and skinheads
- House prices getting higher and higher
- Television is a problem - it's causing a life style -
it's the way it's being used
- Would like to feel safe in Christchurch at night but
don't (city centre)
- Employment incentives
- Behaviour in the inner city
- Fortified houses in our area - bikie gangs
- Kids dropping out of school getting into trouble. Nothing
much to do for them
- Women's residential needs
- Rising crime and prostitution
- Parental accountability
- Providing more activity for youth
- Affordability
- Glue-sniffers city wide
- Lack of resources in educational institutions - schools
and colleges etc
- Housing - the lack of, and expense of, and poor quality
of rented property, particularly for students
- The need for more parks for cars at the public hospital
- Gangs
- Air pollution
- Canterbury drivers have got to be the worst drivers in
the world - driver courtesy is very poor
- Crime
- Halfway houses for child molesters - should not be in
community
- Lack of community
- Lack of police
- Lack of access to health services
- Should 160 Somalian families all be settled in one area
- Looking after the elderly
- Lower income families housing
- Heart unit - we need one
- Should be more supervised group activities that don't
include alcohol
- Abortion rates are too high - could an advertising
campaign be mounted to look at other alternatives
- Violence. Family violence and I don't think they should
lower the drinking age
- Skateboarders are sometimes inconsiderate especially in
Victoria Square
- Youth delinquency
- Education
- Poverty
- Glue-sniffing
- Crime
- Fighting that goes on which fuels the media
- Where children are left without supervision and behaviour
of parents in general, in the poorer areas
- Older people being raped in their own homes
- Unemployment - more needs to be done
- Young people out drinking in town, young people not
wearing helmets
- Street kids
- Gangs
- Children who fail to attend school
- Drinking age should be lowered. Better education would
stop alcohol abuse - it has in Europe
- The number of prisons in Christchurch concerns me. We
seem to get prisoners from all over the country
- Crime
- Racial problems
- Drugs and alcohol use
- Under age drinking
- Fire-less days to stop winter pollution
- Crime increase and racial tension
- Integration of new ethnic groups into community
- Youth - lack of viable options for young people.
Downsizing of services for families in need
- Need more police in the city
- New immigrants
- Amenities for young people
- Burglaries and thefts - lack of police support
- Drug addicts - negative attitudes towards their future,
low self esteem
- The effect of smog on people especially the central city
area
- A city that is unsafe at night or day
- Lack of police
- Increasing numbers of households that have too little
money and feel that they can't belong to community
- Racism - skinheads
- General homeless people
- Homelessness
- Mindless violence
- Hospitals
- Availability of help for the economically disadvantaged
- Repair and maintenance of hospital rooms is lamentable.
appalling eg a water tap not repaired and left running
for a month
- I question the council funding of witches covens, by
calling them welfare agencies
- Isolation and alienation of the elderly and disabled
- Unemployment
- Pollution
- Too little low-cost housing for the poor and pensioners
- Number of unemployed
- Not enough enforcing of regulations against dog owners
- Young suicides and lack of secure case for mentally
disturbed people
- Gangs
- I don't feel safe in the Square in Christchurch at night
- it's not a safe place
- Not enough policing done in the Square. Foul language in
public
- As in any city in New Zealand major dependence on
voluntary organisations to support the needy
- Family court judges and counsel for children are
untrained in children's needs and sometimes make the
wrong decision for one parent families
- Elderly people being robbed and raped and bashed
- Long-term unemployment
- Lack of safety at night
- Skateboarding in Square
- Breakdown of family unit
- Gangs
- Skinhead groups
- Fighting between ethnic groups
- Child care facilities - concern there is huge increase in
privately owned/profit making centres
- People sleeping along Lichfield St
- Leave police kiosk in the Square
- Need free activities like YMCA programmes to get
teenagers off the street
- Letting big dangerous dogs off leashes on the beach.
Fighting dogs should be muzzled in public
- Lack of focus for youth, racism
- The safety of our health system and the fact that we
still have not got a heart unit
- Where do those people go from houses being knocked down
and new high cost housing being built - is there still
low cost housing?
- Youth in general
- Dogs
- Historic buildings - protection, preservation
- Snobbery
- Women not being able to go out at night
- Racial issues
- Health
- Street kids
- Some houses have no safe access to their front door.
Often guarded by big fences and dogs. Is the bylaw to
provide access enforced?
- People telling on their neighbours re ACC and Social
Welfare payments to help ACC and DSW detect fraud. These
organisations should make their own inquiries
- Glue-sniffers on the streets
- Waiting lists at the public hospital
- No help with big (unwanted) gardens
- Skateboarders and other hazards on footpaths
- Crime
- Housing for low-income earners
- Gangs
- Race relations between Maori and skinheads (and sometimes
it's the population in general - both 2 and 3)
- Frustrations with the hospital system - I've had friends
die that didn't need to
- Low cost housing - not council's responsibility
- Dog droppings in streets and parks
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