Living Streets Canterbury

What's coming up in September and beyond?

We meet regularly on the first Tueday of the month at 4.15-6.00 pm to discuss our business and projects. 

Contact us (see below) if you are interested in attending or assisting in some way with any of our business or projects.

MAYORAL CANDIDATES FORUM ON MAKING SUSTAINABILITY HAPPEN, 7.30pm, Wednesday 8 September, Christchurch Girls' High School Auditorium, Matai Street, Riccarton. Find out mayoral candidates’ long term view for Otautahi-Christchurch and how they see their responsibilities to future generations.  For more information check out the Sustainable Otautahi Christchurch website

COMING EVENTS:

URBAN PLEASURES: RECREATIONAL WALKING IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS.
Tom Beard, urban designer at Wellington City Council, talks about how the built and social environments in our cities can make walking fun, enjoyable , and interesting.  Come an enjoy this quirky talk and think about how we might design our urban places so that we can move beyond driving to "go for a walk", towards cities where walking is always a pleasure.  Our City Otautahi, corner Worcester Blvd and Oxford Tce, 4pm Friday 24th September.

WALK FOR WELL-BEING at the Travis Wetlands on 10th October 2010. This is an event for Mental Health Awareness Week and is also a 10/10 event. The walk will be a non-competitive, fun-filled ramble. The event runs from 10am – 2pm so you can join in the walk anytime within this time. The walk starts from the Information Centre, Beach Road, Burwood.  The number 45 and 83 buses will get you to the start point. There will  be spot prizes, a discovery checklist, sausage sizzle. You can also BYO picnic. Volunteers are needed to help on the day of the event. If you can help, contact,  Meg Christie at meg.christie@cdhb.govt.nz

6.    Finally in December we are looking at running a CBD walk around the op shops. It is likely to be on a Saturday with a stop for lunch along the way at a cafe.  WAtch this space for any updates

Consultations

If you have an interest in Akaroa then you might like to look at the Draft Akaroa Places and Spaces Plan. Submissions on this are due on the 8th October 2010

Canterbury Active Transport (CAT) Forum

The CAT Forum is a multi-party forum for those within the region who have an interest in the development and promotion of active transport.

The CAT Forum meets on a quarterly basis.  Topics for discussion / presentation come from the forum members, with Environment Canterbury responsible for hosting and facilitating the forum meetings.

Anyone with an interest is able to attend.  Check out the web page for further information, meeting dates, meeting minutes and presentations.

Snippets

Summer Steps

Living streets Canterbury would like to thank Piko and Hoyts for donating prizes towards Living Streets Summer Steps programme. We will be running this again in 2011 so keep an eye out for it on the website.

Google maps 

Google has recently introduced walking directions on their map site. To access the walking directions, go to 'Get Directions,' put in your start and finish points, and select 'Walking.' Please note that this feature is still being developed and may be missing pedestrian pathways.  If you have any comments about this, let us know via the contacts below.

Jan Gehl Public Space Public Life Study

In 2009, Danish urban designer Jan Gehl undertook a Public Space Public Life Study of Central Christchurch.  This has been released early in 2010 and has some great stuff in it around walking and making Christchurch less of a car focused city.  Check out the report here.

Contacts

Christchurch Office

PO Box 25 297, Christchurch 8144

Office 9 Level 1, 53 Victoria St, Christchurch

Phone (03) 366 2645

Carfree day in Christchurch was fun - have a look at our press release and some photos

Resources

Use our Guided Search or our Document Finder to find all walking resources and other items relating to Christchurch or Canterbury region or use these preset searches