Christchurch City Council

Establish business advisory panels and engagement models to ensure the needs and views of local businesses and business owners are heard.

Create opportunities for collaborative and coordinated planning and prioritisation of capital spend to support businesses and job creation.

Investigate public-private partnership opportunities and leveraging of assets through joint ventures and other commercial opportunities.

Engage small businesses in the city to find out why they aren't currently employing more youth, and what resources they would need to do so.

Incentivise small businesses to hire unemployed New Zealanders as opposed to relying on work visas.

Help businesses to develop the capacity and expertise to create employment opportunities for people with disabilities

Foster economic and productivity growth by partnering with local business stakeholder groups to facilitate such growth where it's needed.

Attract new residents to Christchurch/Ōtautahi by investing in key areas of our city that will lead to an increase in council revenue.

Boost our local economy by investing strong, and sensibly, in our city's infrastructure to add to growth in many areas of Christchurch.

Tackle truancy, unemployment and crime by initiating council youth job training schemes with government funding and enhance existing schemes.

Pause the bicycle pathway, and prioritise funding for replacing ageing or overloaded drainage to mitigate the effects of future floods.

Encourage interaction between local people by creating local night-time street markets in thoroughfares such as Riccarton Rd near Westfield.

Work with local businesses to find out what their main frustrations are and what would help them to stay in the area.

Commit to sorting out the roading issues in Riccarton to get better common sense to how the roads will work people for the local businesses.

Work with local businesses to keep encouraging people into Riccarton on weekends.

Ensure the council works proactively to support local businesses and events coming to Christchurch.

Enhance suburban shopping areas to support local areas.

Invest in rapid mass transit to provide equitable and affordable access to further contribute to how we can live, work and play.