20 Aug 2025

Deadline over homeless people living on Christchurch church grounds

From Checkpoint, 4:43 pm on 20 August 2025

A looming deadline hangs over a group of homeless people living on a church's grounds. Advocates said those living in a carpark at Holy Trinity Avonside in Christchurch have nowhere else to go. But the Christchurch City Council said it's not a camping ground and the church has two days to stop treating it as such.Timothy Brown reports.