Plan Outlines Services for Growing City

Each year Christchurch City Council ranks the priorities for the City and sets budgets for the coming year developing measures to ensure Christchurch remains an excellent place to live.

While the City is expanding quickly, Council must ensure that the services it provides are capable of coping with a growing population without dramaticaly increasing rates.

Christchurch City Council's Draft Plan: 1997 Edition has been prepared to provide for this growth without penalising Christchurch ratepayers.

While keeping a rise in rates to just 2.7 per cent, the Council is committed to improving services by:

• Upgrading the Bromley wastewater treatment plant,
• Redevelopment of Cathedral Square,
• Committing more to saving historic buildings,
• Investing $1 Million more in the people of Christchurch through social initiatives targeting those in greatest need.

 

For more information on these services, and others proposed in the Draft Plan, see

• Have Your Say

• Long Term Financial Strategy Keeps Rates Steady

• Helping the Community Cope with Change

• Rates Increase Below National Average

• Your City, Your Choice

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Have Your Say

Christchurch City Council's Draft Plan: 1997 Edition is published on 13 May. Christchurch residents are invited to make submissions on the projections and assumptions in the Plan.

• Has Council set the right priorities for the future of Christchurch?
• What services could be improved?
• Could Council do more in any areas?
• Do the proposed projects address problems that really matter?

Call the Draft Plan Hotline, 941 8888, for a copy of the Draft Plan: 1997 Edition and have your say on the issues which will help shape the future of the City.

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May 1997 City Scene ~ City Scene Archive