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News: tagged with "housing"

• Burn ‘warmer, cheaper’ this winter to help improve our air quality

  Posted: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: housing, heating, pollution, campaign
  Environment Canterbury media release: 30th May 2023 As the infamous Canterbury frosts start to bite, people across the region are firing up their wood burners to stay warm

• Get support from Tamaiti Healthy Homes

  Posted: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: housing, health, families, maori, pacific
  Te Puawaitanga ki Ōtautahi Trust and Tangata Atumotu Trust provide the Tamaiti Healthy Homes service for low income aiga and whānau who live in cold, damp and unhealthy homes

• Choosing a retirement village

  Posted: Thursday, November 24, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: housing, older people, retirement
  For those looking to make the move to a retirement village, The Eldernet Group have made the process of finding a retirement village even easier by adding new search functions to its retirementvillages.co.nz website

• Mayor calls for bespoke approach to housing intensification

  Posted: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: housing, planning, policy
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 21st September 2022 Mayor Lianne Dalziel has written to the Environment Minister asking for a bespoke approach to housing intensification provisions in Christchurch

• Christchurch says no to government’s intensification direction

  Posted: Tuesday, September 13, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: planning, housing
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 13sth September 2022 Christchurch City Council has voted against changing its planning rules to comply with government direction to enable more housing and development in the city

• Council’s hands tied over plan change notification

  Posted: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: housing, planning
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 6th September 2022 Mayor Lianne Dalziel says she understands people’s concerns about Government-directed moves to enable higher density housing in Christchurch but the Council’s hands are tied

• Free checklist to help renters look for a healthy home

  Posted: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 in: Resources and Information With tags: housing, Community Groups, resources
  CEA Charitable Trust in Christchurch has developed a free checklist for tenants looking for a new home that is warm, dry and healthy to live in

• Council approves land rezoning for residential development in Lincoln

  Posted: Thursday, June 9, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: housing, land
  Selwyn District Council media release: 8th June 2022 The Council has approved rezoning of 190 hectares of rural land south of Lincoln for residential development

• Initiatives under way to help processing of consents

  Posted: Thursday, June 2, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: built environment, housing
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 31st May 2022 New initiatives have been introduced at Christchurch City Council to help with the processing of building and resource consents

• Council supports project to help young families at risk

  Posted: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: housing, families, funding, Community Groups
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 30th March 2022 A charitable organisation which plans to build a seven-unit affordable housing facility for vulnerable young families has been given a helping hand

• Building consents increasing in Selwyn

  Posted: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: built environment, planning, housing
  Selwyn District Council media release: 8th March 2022 A slowdown in applications and hard work from the Council consents team has seen the average number of working days to process an application falling

• Two six-storey apartment blocks for East Frame

  Posted: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: housing, development
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 28th February 2022 Two six-storey apartment blocks are going to be built on the corner of Manchester and Worcester streets

• Christchurch: The growth challenge

  Posted: Thursday, February 10, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: planning, housing, Climate Change
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 10th February 2022 Population growth, housing issues and climate change are prompting a re-think of some of Christchurch’s planning rules

• Patience urged for new dwelling building consent processing

  Posted: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: property, housing, rebuild
  Waimakariri District Council media release: 9th February 2022 With a near record-breaking surge in building consents for new homes in the Waimakariri District, staff are under pressure to deliver consents within statutory processing time frames

• Selwyn property rating revaluations released

  Posted: Thursday, February 3, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: housing
  Selwyn District Council media release: 2nd February 2022 Updated rateable values for Selwyn properties are now available. The revaluation was carried out by Quotable Value (QV) on behalf of Selwyn District Council and showed that there has been a 33

• CEA Trust offering free insulation to eligible homeowners

  Posted: Thursday, February 3, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: housing, heating, insulation, support, services
  More insulation equates to better health in many cases - and insulation could be free for low income owner-occupiers

• Activity and convenience draws central city residents

  Posted: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: housing, urban design
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 18th January 2022 Pamela Cheney has always thought about living close to the central city. But it wasn’t until July when she managed to convince her partner Brad Richardson to make the move

• Why Christchurch is still NZ’s most affordable major city

  Posted: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: housing, economy
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 20th October 2021 Ōtautahi Christchurch has continually been referred to as New Zealand’s most affordable city. But recent articles have cast some shade on this claim

• More progressive home ownership opportunities for first home buyers

  Posted: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: housing, funding
  Beehive media release: 5th October 2021 The Government is creating more opportunities for individuals, families and whānau to purchase their own homes through the Progressive Home Ownership (PHO) Fund

• GPS sets long-term direction for housing and urban development

  Posted: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 in: Resources and Information With tags: housing, policy, urban, development
  Beehive media release: 28th September 2021 The Government has laid out its long-term vision for housing and urban development in Aotearoa New Zealand, ensuring we have the infrastructure and homes needed to nurture thriving communities in the decades to c

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