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This website is dedicated to the recovery of St Albans and its city, Christchurch following a devastating series of earthquakes in 2010 and 2011. This service by the St Albans Residents’ Association (SARA) offers relevant local information. If you are from an organisation or a business and have essential information you would like to share with the community, then please get in touch by email to sara@stalbans.gen.nz and we will endeavour to publish it here.Translations
Category Archives: Housing
More apartments for St Albans
More apartments are on the drawing board for St Albans. The Auckland developers are currently building a complex of eight three storey tilt slab blocks housing 24 apartments on Riccarton Road. It replaces a two storey wooden house that stood … Continue reading
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St Albans properties sell fast
According to this Press news story, properties in St Albans are among the fastest to sell in the city. The same story also says that Edgeware properties (SE corner of St Albans) have faced the biggest drops in value.
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Habitat for Humanity helps repair family home
Habitat for Humanity is nearly finished repairing the quake-damaged Jeffries family home in St Albans.
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New night shelter for women opens
Christchurch City Mission now operates a small night shelter for seven women at Flat 1, 466 Cashel Street.
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St Albans may get action group
A group similar to Addington Action may set up in St Albans to help uninsured and underinsured homeowners repair their quake-damaged houses.
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New website aimed at TC3 rebuilders
CERA (and a Government Department with a long name) launched a new website at www.canterburyresidentialrebuild.govt.nz on Monday, February 4, aimed at helping property owners, particularly those in Technical Category 3, navigate the repair/rebuild process. The content is a bit thin … Continue reading
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Rebuilders’ village set for Orion site
Designs have been drawn up and the Christchurch City Council has given approval for plans to turn a northern part of the former Orion site in St Albans into a village for 200 workers rebuilding the city. The complex will … Continue reading
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CanCERN plan to reuse red zone housing materials
Time: 12:00pm-1pm on February 5. Location: Aoraki Room at Community and Public Health (310 Manchester Street) Description: What a waste all the residential red zone demolition is. Communities and organisations could be making use of all those materials being trucked … Continue reading
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Economics for everyone
Location: Delta Community House, 105 North Avon Road, Richmond Time: 7.30pm till 9pm on November 23 Description: Dave Marra will discuss an exciting proposal for mobilising communities in the domestic rebuild, ensuring those on low-incomes owning older housing are able to … Continue reading
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Central City Living zones review
Christchurch City Council is carrying out a review of the planning framework of the living zones in the Central City, including the special amenity area (SAMs) overlays, as part of the Christchurch Central Recovery Plan.
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IAG to confirm overcap claims by December 20
IAG said it would confirm the status of overcap claims and state whether a property is economic to repair, or needs rebuilding, by December 20. And all IAG repairs will be completed by late 2015.
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Pre 1976 units face uncertain future
Apartments and other multiple unit buildings built before 1976 may face higher insurance costs, costly upgrades and possibly demolition as local councils attempt to make buildings more earthquake resilient (building code compliant).
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