Key Points

• The City Council’s Waterway Enhancement Programme has been operating successfully over the last year, undertaking native planting programmes along the City's waterways.
• Christchurch City has 578 parks at June 1996, plus Bottle Lake Forest, totalling some 3,488 hectares.
• During the last year, there has been an increase of 13 parks within the City.
• 16 hectares of public recreation open space has been added to the City since July 1995.
• The remaining 60ha of the Travis Wetland was