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The award is designed to promote and encourage the use, benefits and presentation of native plants in an urban setting. Its aim is to recognise gardens that demonstrate a notable contribution to Christchurch's natural heritage and biodiversity. These gardens will also contribute to the wider landscape and the city's international reputation for diverse gardens.

Christchurch is fortunate to have such a diversity of parks and waterways, from neighbourhood playgrounds, sports grounds and heritage gardens, to large wilderness areas, coastal parks, wetlands and rivers.

The emphasis for the Small Projects Fund is on small community projects which assist community groups to enhance their capacity and/or increase participation in their activities. It is not for major funding.

To assist the development of junior sport in rural communities by providing a travel subsidy.

The purpose of the fund is to support, develop and maintain relationships with key community focused organisations whose projects and service delivery outcomes contribute to the strengthening of community wellbeing in the Christchurch City area.

Council are currently developing a vision to ensure Christchurch is New Zealand's best city to live in. Aquatic facilities contribute to achieving this vision along with the community outcomes and the strategic directions of Council.

In developing the Arts Policy and Strategy the Council has recognised the key role of the arts in the City's social, cultural and economic development, and as a vehicle for urban renewal and city marketing. The arts play a vital role in improving the lives of citizens and should be encouraged for itÕs social and cultural value as well as commercial potential.

The Draft Metropolitan Sports Facilities Plan is a city-wide plan to guide the Christchurch City Council's future role and investment in metropolitan sporting facilities during the next 20 years. These are facilities which provide benefits and services for sport at a city-wide, national and international level.

The history and location of Christchurch City and Banks Peninsula provide a distinctive character, much of which is derived from buildings and other structures. While it is the early buildings in Christchurch and Banks Peninsula which do most to define the City's and the Peninsula's unique architectural identity, the contributions of all periods have helped to shape the City's character and define a special sense of ‘place'.

The plan is designed to guide the future development of Christchurch City Libraries' buildings through to 2025.

A long-term plan is a Council's contract with its residents that describes how it intends to achieve the community's goals and the city's long-term goals with the resources available to it.

The Physical Recreation and Sport Strategy is founded on the belief that there are a number of key individual and community benefits that accrue from people taking part in physical recreation and sport activities.

This Youth Strategy document signals the beginning of another phase in terms of the Council's commitment to young people. It is an attempt to carve out some strategic direction for the implementation of the Youth Policy. It holds the potential for some advances to be made in relation to young people and the Council's Youth Policy.

Official website for Christchurch City Libraries

The Strategy is the guiding document for the City Council's cycling policies and programmes, and provides a common direction to improve co-ordination between the City Council and other organisations or groups involved with cycling. This Strategy provides the mechanisms to improve the cycle network throughout the city, increase the safety of cyclists and raise levels of enjoyment.

The Event Strategy has been prepared to guide the growth, development and management of Christchurch events over the next 10 years (2007-2017)

Christchurch City Council's Film website

This gallery showcases a fraction of the almost 12 kilometres of records held in the Christchurch repository of Archives New Zealand.

The Farrago Gallery contains a random miscellany of images and themes, from maps and plans of Godley Head Defence Area to the Surgeon's Report from the voyage of the Lady Nugent in 1850. It will be added to regularly.