Dates

• Existence: 2020 - 2022

Biography

In 2020 the Social, Community Development and Housing Committee became the Sustainability and Community Resilience Committee.

The committee was reponsible for making decisions on: Enabling active citizenship, community engagement and participation; Implementing the Council’s climate change initiatives and strategies; Arts and culture including the Art Gallery; Heritage; Housing across the continuum of social, affordable and market housing, including innovative housing solutions that will increase the supply of affordable housing; Overseeing the Council’s housing asset management including the lease to the Otautahi Community Housing Trust; Libraries (including community volunteer libraries); Museums; Sports, recreation and leisure services and facilities; Parks (sports, local, metropolitan and regional), gardens, cemeteries, open spaces and the public realm; Hagley Park, including the Hagley Park Reference Group; Community facilities and assets; Suburban Master Plans and other local community plans; Implementing public health initiatives; Community safety and crime prevention, including family violence; Civil defence including disaster planning and local community resilience plans; Community events, programmes and activities; Community development and support, including grants and sponsorships; The Smart Cities Programme; Council’s consent under the terms of a Heritage Conservation Covenant; Council’s consent to the removal of a Heritage Conservation Covenant from a vacant section.

In June 2022 this committee was concluded.