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Signatory Notice Board

News and notices from Waka Toa Ora signatories.

• Cope with another dry summer by SMART Watering

  Posted: Wednesday, November 09, 2016 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: environmental health, water, gardening
  Environment Canterbury media release: 2nd November 2016 The SMART Watering campaign re-launched today in a bid to help home gardeners cope with another dry summer

• Water quality improving at popular Canterbury swim spots

  Posted: Wednesday, November 09, 2016 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: water, environment, environmental health
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 9th November 2016 Monitoring of 52 popular fresh water swimming sites in Canterbury has shown that 12 of them have improved in quality

• The Housing Question: new programme on Plains FM

  Posted: Wednesday, November 09, 2016 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: housing, Communication, community engagement
  The Housing Question is a new programme on Plains FM 96.9 exploring the many housing issues that exist in Christchurch and throughout New Zealand

• New Christchurch freedom camping rules approved

  Posted: Thursday, November 03, 2016 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: law, land, environment, environmental health
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 2nd November 2016 Changes to Christchurch’s freedom camping rules will help manage the safety of visitors, residents and the environment as the district moves into the busy summer period

• Community effort needed to improve quality of rivers and streams

  Posted: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: environmental health, environment, water
  Christchurch City Council media release: 3rd October 2016 Improving the quality of the city’s waterways is a priority for Christchurch City Council but everyone needs to play their part

• Changes proposed to Provisional Local Alcohol Policy

  Posted: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: alcohol, law, policy
  Christchurch City Council media release: 3rd October 2016 Christchurch City Council has been given permission to alter elements of its provisional Local Alcohol Policy (LAP)

• Book Discussion Scheme: Making reading a social activity

  Posted: Thursday, September 15, 2016 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: Community development, Community Groups, resilience, reading
  Check out the Book Discussion Scheme if you enjoy reading and would like to make it a more social activity. The Book Discussion Scheme (BDS) is a non-profit that promotes the educational and recreational aspects of book groups and clubs

• Coastal hazard LIM notations to change

  Posted: Wednesday, September 07, 2016 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: environment, water, housing
  Christchurch City Council media release: 5th September 2016 Information about potential coastal hazards on the Land Information Memoranda (LIMs) of properties in Christchurch and Banks Peninsula will be altered

• Changes proposed at entrances to CBD slow zone

  Posted: Thursday, September 01, 2016 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: transport, safety
  Christchurch City Council media release: 30th August 2016 Ways to improve motorists’ awareness that they are entering the central city’s 30kph zone will be discussed by the Council’s Infrastructure, Transport and Environment Committee on Thursday

• Children become road safety champions

  Posted: Thursday, August 25, 2016 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: children, transport, safety
  Christchurch City Council media release: 24th August 2016 It’s a big job looking after little children, but when you’re a road safety leader you take it in your stride

• How safe is our water?

  Posted: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: water, public health
  Christchurch City Council media release: 24th August 2016 The contamination of Havelock North’s water supply has raised questions about the safety of water supplies across the country

• New partnership focuses on health of Lyttelton Harbour

  Posted: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: environment, environmental health, water
  Christchurch City Council media release: 23rd August 2016 A new initiative to restore the health of Lyttelton Harbour/Whakaraupō has been launched

• New lease of life for one of last remaining wetlands in ChCh

  Posted: Wednesday, August 10, 2016 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: environment, restoration
  Christchurch City Council media release: 10th August 2016 The Otukaikino near Belfast is one of Christchurch’s last remaining wetlands

• New Unicycle path through Hagley Park a hit with users

  Posted: Tuesday, August 09, 2016 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: physical activity, transport, cycling
  Christchurch City Council media release: 9th August 2016 More than 8000 people a week are walking or cycling the new Uni-cycle path through Hagley Park, according to new permanent counters placed along the path

• Don’t visit your loved ones in hospital if you’re sick

  Posted: Thursday, July 28, 2016 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: medical, advice, older people
  Canterbury District Health Board media release: 28th July 2016 If you’re sick please don’t come visiting at Christchurch Hospital – that’s the message from Canterbury DHB’s Executive Director of Nursing Mary Gordon

• Bike Share project being taken for 5000 rides

  Posted: Thursday, July 21, 2016 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: cycling, transport, physical activity
  Christchurch City Council media release: 20th July 2016 Shared bikes have been taken on 5000 trips around Christchurch since the pilot scheme was launched nearly a year ago

• No health concerns over nitrate levels

  Posted: Thursday, July 21, 2016 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: public health, water
  Christchurch City Council media release: 19th July 2016 High nitrate levels found in two samples of water taken from a bore in an industrial part of Addington are unlikely to have had any adverse effect on people’s health, Christchurch City Council and t

• Plan heralds new approach to keeping young people active

  Posted: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: physical activity, children, youth, exercise, sport
  Sport New Zealand media release: 11th July 2016 Sport New Zealand has today released a “plan of attack” for keeping young people in New Zealand active

• Video encapsulates the things we love about Chch

  Posted: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: recovery, resilience, research
  Christchurch City Council media release: 12th July 2016 The passions, hopes and aspirations people have for Christchurch have been captured in a short video released this week

• 2016 Vulnerability Report Published

  Posted: Thursday, June 23, 2016 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: funding, social, services, Report
  This 22nd and final Vulnerability Report from the NZ Council of Christian Social Services captures a period of relentless change to the social services landscape over the past 6 years, including: increasing demand for services in communities (that plat

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