Congratulations to Catherine Chu, Helen Broughton and Gamal Fouda for their successes in this month’s local body elections.

Catherine is Riccarton’s City Council representative and also topped the poll for the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton Community Board, while Helen has retained her seat on the Community Board.

Because Catherine has secured a seat on the City Council, she does not take a ward seat on the Community Board, and the second spot there has been gained by Gamal, who was was third in the voting.

Below is a table of how all the Riccarton candidates fared in the elections, and a list of all Christchurch election results can be seen by clicking here:

The city council plans to provide New Zealand postal services at the new Riccarton Community Centre currently being built in Clarence Street.

My name is Jenny Brown and i'm a PhD student at the University of Canterbury. I'm conducting research into the effects ongoing earthquake insurance claims have on mental wellbeing.

Term 2 ends on Friday this week, and a wide variety of school holiday programmes are available in the Riccarton area. Here’s a list: 

Work on upgrading the busy section of Riccarton Road between Harakeke and Matipo streets is likely to finish four months earlier than expected.

It was anticipated the upgrade work would take until the end of 2020 to complete, but contractors Fulton Hogan have advised Christchurch City Council they should have the work done by August 2020.

The City Council is proposing to reduce the time allocations for some of the existing P60 short-term time restricted parking spaces in the Riccarton Road section of Division Street.

As the 2019 Local Body Elections draw closer, there will be greater focus in the media around candidates and issues. The Riccarton Community Hub website will attempt to provide links to all articles covering local issues and candidates, and will be updated as they appear.

For those to date, see below:

Local body elections in New Zealand tend to have low voter turn-out. Yet the decisions made by city councillors, community boards and other elected people have a huge impact on our daily lives (and wallets). A Radio NZ news item pointing this out can be read at https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018710613/local-body-boredom-why-every-council-election-is-a-fizzer 

This year, the elections are on 12 October, and here are some of the reasons why they matter to you: