Comments Wanted On Draft Charleston Neighbourhood Plan

The draft Charleston Neighbourhood Plan is now available and the Christchurch City Council is seeking comments about it.

The plan aims to help retain and build on the physical and social character of Charleston.

It shows proposals for the area to be completed over a 5-year period, and has a catalogue of ideas through which the plan objectives can be implemented.

These ideas may be adapted to suit a particular location or a specific outcome.

The Charleston Neighbourhood Plan is available for viewing at the following locations until the Wednesday 22 August:

Phillipstown Community Centre,
21A Nursery Road;
Linwood Service Centre
180 Smith Street;
and Urban Design Team,
4th Floor, Civic Offices,
163 -173 Tuam Street.
Seminar Two
Comments must be received by 22 August.

Further information: Josie Schröder, Urban Design Planner: 3711932

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>