Connect with St Albans
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
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St Albans Community Discussion
Location: Mairehau Library, 42 Kensington Ave, St Albans Time: 7-8pm on February 12 Description: Topics on the agenda for discussion include the temporary workers accommodation on the Orion site, problems caused by built up footpaths, changing traffic flows in the … Continue reading
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St Albans boundaries
We received a query recently from someone in Mairehau about SARA or St Albans boundaries which raised a very good question. This linked map shows St Albans boundaries. The original St Albans suburb included land as far as Rossall Street, … Continue reading
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St Albans News receives COGS grant
The St Albans Residents Association has received a $5000 grant from COGS, the community grants system administered by the Department of Internal Affairs. The grant is for wages and professional services for the St Albans News, the local print newsletter, … Continue reading
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Making St Albans inclusive and accessible
The Human Rights Commission will partner St Albans residents to ensure that the needs of the disabled are included when projects outlined in the St Albans Community Strategy are implemented.
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Transport plan vague about vehicle dispersal
Christchurch City Council has adopted the Christchurch Transport Strategic Plan without clarifying how traffic will disperse from the two major roads that end on St Albans boundaries.
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News Advertiser turns spotlight on SARA and CCC
All is not sweetness and light between the Christchurch City Council and the St Albans Residents Association and this negativity is being picked up in the local print media, this time in a frontpage article by the News Advertiser on … Continue reading
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SARA supports campaign to fix EQC
Shoddy service, obstructive access to information and bumbling delivery are spurs to the creation of a citizens’ campaign to fix problems caused by EQC. The Residents EQC Action Campaign (REAC) is a public campaign to sort out EQC, not only … Continue reading
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Sing your heart out, St Albans
An old-fashioned singalong this Sunday aims to put the heart back into the St Albans Community. The event has been organised by singer/songwriter June Burney in association with Christchurch City Creative Communities and the Residents Association and is being held … Continue reading
St Albans Community Strategy (20 Projects) outlined at AGM
The St Albans Community Strategy and its 20 project system were outlined at the St Albans Residents Association AGM on Tuesday night during a presentation by Jarrod Coburn from Resilience New Zealand.
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Communities not wanted in centre?
St Albans community groups are welcome to use the transitional St Albans centre for a couple of hours every now and then but they won’t be able to “settle” in the centre or build their communities from there. And some … Continue reading
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St Albans Residents Association (SARA) AGM
St Albans needs residents with skills to get involved in the rebuild of the community. Come along to the barbecue and annual general meeting on September 25 and learn about the projects planned for the future and how you can … Continue reading
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Students give back to older generation
The Student Volunteer Army, now known as the Volunteer Army Foundation, is organising an afternoon aimed at spanning the generations at four venues around the city this Saturday, afternoon.
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