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"Travel 25 kilometres south from Christchurch on the new 110
kilometre-per-hour, multi-million-dollar “road of national significance” and
you’ll reach New Zealand’s fastest growing town.
Situated within the country’s fastest growing district of Selwyn, Rolleston now
boasts a population over 34,000 – predicted to reach 50,000 by 2050. It is
already Canterbury’s second-biggest urban area, surpassing Timaru and
Ashburton.
Rolleston was growing fast before the 2010–11 Canterbury earthquakes. And its
continued expansion – including a proposed large-scale housing development – is
part of a national pattern of mushrooming, car-dependent satellite towns and
fast-tracked urban sprawl.
From 2000 to 2025 the town grew by a staggering 1,246%, or 11% annually. By
comparison, New Zealand grew by 38% in that period, or 1% a year.
But the Rolleston that has evolved – largely a dormitory suburb of Christchurch
built on once-productive land – is very different to the town first envisaged
by planners in the early 1970s."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
