Photo: Geoff SloanIts more than eight years since the earthquakes destroyed hundreds of buildings, leaving Christchurch's city centre broken, empty and silent. We needed the fundamentals, we needed our roads repaired, we needed our sewerage and wastewater repaired, we needed our homes repaired," she said. But the city and its people need to act now, or it risks going backwards, she says. In a recent report ChristchurchNZ says the city needs to ramp up efforts to attract and retain people - it estimates it needs 100,000 more residents in the next 10 years. Norris says the city needs to “activate and stimulate”, and make sure it has the population base for sustained investment, with a different type of economy.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 01, 2019 19:41 UTC