Towards Completing The Square

Report of the Cathedral Square Design Team, 15 May 2001

The current redevelopment of Cathedral Square has been under active consideration by the Council since 1991.

Following the adoption of a long term vision for the Square in December 1996 design work, followed by construction, occurred during the period 1997-2000.

This report, accompanied by appendices containing conceptual sketches and diagrams, was prepared for presentation to the seminar meeting of the Christchurch City Council on 15 May 2001. This is a progress report on the ideas and solutions that have been developed for “completing” the Square, both the north west quadrant (“Stage V”) and other parts of the Square where redevelopment has occurred but which still requires completion or fine tuning.

This is not a final blueprint for final decision making and construction, but rather it describes a process and puts forward ideas for consideration and endorsement before continuing a programme of consultation and development of concepts for implementation.

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• Towards Completing The Square (148KB)
• Appendix 1 Cathedral Square - The vision, 1996 (128KB)
• Appendix 2 Landowners, occupiers and others consulted (128KB)
• Appendix 3 Submissions by topic (128KB)
• Appendix 4 Plan Drawings
  • Existing Plan (161KB)
  • Ideas Plan (151KB)
  • Key Plan 1 (165KB)
  • Key Plan 2 (166KB)
  • 1a South Introduction To Square (157KB)
  • 1b North Introduction To Square (174KB)
  • 2a South Repair Threshold (183KB)
  • 2b East Repair Threshold (215KB)
  • 3a Western Grove - Western Threshold (244KB)
  • 3b Western Grove - Western Threshold (226KB)
  • 4a Market Square (172KB)
  • 4b Market Square - Northern Threshold (191KB)
  • 5 Garden Of Four Seasons (191KB)
  • 6a Northern Pavillion (164KB)
  • 6b Southern Pavillion (126KB)
  • 7 Bollard Concept (152KB)