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Bound volumes and loose maps, many cloth backed, hand painted and hand annotated of streets across Christchurch.

Includes some maps from the Department of Land and Survey.

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Annual reports of the Christchurch City Council City Engineer's Department. Also includes a report titled Cecil Street Housing (1974) and two publications from the City Engineer's Department from December 1980, Organisation and Responsibilities and Works In Hand and Work Projected.

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Building permit registers created by Christchurch City Council. Prior to the formation of the City Engineer's Department in 1923 these were managed by the City Surveyor.

Content Description Files from the Christchurch City Council City Engineer's Department, later known as the City Works and Planning Department.Files are from the City Architect and relate to the design and construction of various public and residential buildings under Council control. Includes files on abattoirs, Christchurch Airport, Botanic Gardens, Bridge of Remembrance, retirement villages, Canterbury Public Library, Civic Offices, Town Hall, Municipal Electricity Building, McDougall...

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Records from the Christchurch City Council City Engineer's Department including Public Utilities Committee files, Emergency Precautions Services correspondence and City Engineers files.

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Files from the City Engineer's Department Town Planning Division at Christchurch City Council relating to the 1972 Christchurch District Scheme. Includes files on open spaces, roading, parking, protected trees and buildings such as the Nurses Memorial Chapel and Canterbury Public Library.

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Town Planning Maps: Conditional Uses and Specified Departures. One set of bound maps ‘TP 24’. 21 sheets (A0). Colour coded but there is no 'key' to signify what the colours represent.

Scope and Contents Registered Town Planning files from the Christchurch City Council City Engineer's Department, later known as the City Works and Planning department. The functions of this department became the Environmental Administration Unit, part of the Development Group in 1992.Files are on a range of subjects including statistical research, reserves and open spaces, commercial and retail, district scheme, master transport plan, historic buildings, urban renewal, Port Hills, Estuary and...

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Christchurch City Council Engineers Department annual reports and planning reports 1933-1989. Also includes publications and reports created by the City Engineer's Department, later City Works and Planning Department.

Includes annual reports for the Traffic Department, traffic management incluing cycleways, car parking and the Master Transportation Plan 1960s.

Also includes some Christchurch Drainage Board employee agreements.

Scope and Contents Maps and plans of bridges in the central city and suburbs.Includes Christchurch Drainage Board plans 1879-1936; Aerial photographs 1930-1952; Bound volume of Block Plans 1879-1937; Plans for Queen Elizabeth II Park 1972-1988. Also includes a folder of Benchmarks. Benchmarks are levelled survey points located across the city, referred to as the Christchurch Drainage Datum (CDD). The benchmarks are used to establish the site level control for civil construction works...