Carter Price Rennie ‘Soapbox’, November 18th 2010
Acknowledging the very real effects on all our community – even those who were away, our three final 2010 Soapbox speakers focused on the economic, design and social opportunities arising from the September 4 quake.
A balmy evening in mid November gave us all a chance to chinwag about our own experiences at the re-established (post quake) C4 Coffee HQ on Tuam St.
Ridgway Projects Infrastructure Finance Specialist Richard MacGeorge talked about the opportunity for local authorities in Canterbury to increase lending, rather than relying on rates to finance the rebuild.
Families Commission Chairman and Research First Principal Carl Davidson discussed the resilience we’ve all learned and what might be possible to achieve with those newly-found skills. Carl’s speech is available here. Carl also sent us a copy of a paper by Colin James which you might find interesting.
Architect and Athfield Group instigator Barry Dacombe is also fronting the huge Fletchers contract with EQC for repair work. He suggests there’s not only an opportunity to cut through red tape and speed up the rebuild process, but also to plan better streetscapes. Fletchers has been contracted to fix 50,000 homes but Barry says that already that figure had been well exceeded and it was looking more like 80,000 homes would require major work as home-owners were finding their repairs were more extensive than they first thought.
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