An electronic copy of the December 2016 edition of the St Albans News newsletter.
An electronic copy of the October 2010 edition of the St Albans News newsletter.
An electronic copy of the May 2012 edition of the St Albans News newsletter.
An electronic copy of the October 2011 edition of the St Albans News newsletter.
An electronic copy of the June 2014 edition of the St Albans News newsletter.
An electronic copy of the April 2011 edition of the St Albans News newsletter.
An electronic copy of the October 2014 edition of the St Albans News newsletter.
A Christchurch City Councillor is worried the wishes of local residents and the council could be by-passed once the Earthquake Recovery Authority takes over rebuilding the city.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Local resident Angela Mullin ponders her next move as a car sinks into sand disgorged from under the asphalt road in Flesher Avenue, Richmond".
Liquefaction in North New Brighton. The photographer comments, "After the double quake local to my home, the liquefaction made strange shapes in the liquid content of the outpourings".
A photograph of Graeme Kershaw, Technician at the University of Canterbury Department of Physics and Astronomy, looking through the lens of the Townsend Telescope. The lens is the most crucial component of the telescope. It was found unscratched and unbroken in the rubble of the Observatory tower, after 22 February 2011 earthquake. This means that the telescope can be restored. Other parts of the earthquake-damaged telescope are in the background of the photograph.
A photograph of Graeme Kershaw, Technician at the University of Canterbury Department of Physics and Astronomy, looking through the lens of the Townsend Telescope. The lens is the most crucial component of the telescope. It was found unscratched and unbroken in the rubble of the Observatory tower, after 22 February 2011 earthquake. This means that the telescope can be restored. Other parts of the earthquake-damaged telescope are in the background of the photograph.
An Alumni and Fundraising pamphlet from the University of Canterbury, promoting the restoration of the Townsend Telescope. The pamphlet is titled, "Return Star Gazing to Christchurch".
A photograph of Graeme Kershaw, Technician at the University of Canterbury Department of Physics and Astronomy, looking through the lens of the Townsend Telescope. The lens is the most crucial component of the telescope. It was found unscratched and unbroken in the rubble of the Observatory tower, after 22 February 2011 earthquake. This means that the telescope can be restored.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Aerial shot of the fault line that ruptured, causing Saturday's 7.1 earthquake. Locals walk across a paddock showing jagged scars from the fault line".
A video of an interview with Sir Bob Parker about his knighthood. Parker also talks about his father, his wife Jo Nicholls-Parker, and his career in local politics.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Aerial shot of the fault line that ruptured, causing Saturday's 7.1 earthquake. Locals walk across a paddock showing jagged scars from the fault line".
An electronic copy of the April/May 2016 edition of the St Albans News newsletter.
An electronic copy of the February/March 2016 edition of the St Albans News newsletter.
An electronic copy of the April/May 2015 edition of the St Albans News newsletter.
An electronic copy of the June/July 2015 edition of the St Albans News newsletter.
An electronic copy of the August/September 2015 edition of the St Albans News newsletter.
An electronic copy of the October/November 2015 edition of the St Albans News newsletter.
An electronic copy of the June/July 2016 edition of the St Albans News newsletter.
An electronic copy of the August/September 2016 edition of the St Albans News newsletter.
An electronic copy of the February/March 2017 edition of the St Albans News newsletter.
An electronic copy of the October/November 2016 edition of the St Albans News newsletter.
An electronic copy of the February/March 2015 edition of the St Albans News newsletter.
‘Housing affordability’ has been a term used to refer to a problem that arises when the costs of housing are seen as being unreasonably high in relation to incomes. In the United Kingdom and Australia the local town planning systems have been used to address housing affordability issues. This response in countries that share New Zealand’s town and country planning history raised the question for this research of the local government response to housing affordability issues in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. This research was undertaken during the fifth year after the 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquake series. Research conducted by the Centre for Housing Research Aotearoa New Zealand and the New Zealand Productivity Commission present quite different pictures of the housing affordability problem, suggest different solutions and indicate different roles for levels of government, the community housing sector and the housing market. The research undertaken for this dissertation aimed to address the question of the role of the state, through the lense of a local response to housing affordability issues, in the context of a central government response focused on land supply and reforming the Resource Management Act 1991.
A group of angry Christchurch locals are considering legal action against one of the country's biggest insurance companies because they say their earthquake claims are taking too long to settle.