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Speaker 1: Building is booming, at least in christ Church one out

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Speaker 1: of every five new builds in New Zealand right now

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Speaker 1: coming from the Canterbury catchment. The Garden City leads the

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Speaker 1: way with consents as well, outperforming Auckland and triple the

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Speaker 1: rate of Wellington. Film Major's christ Church is me a

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Speaker 1: good morning.

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Speaker 2: Wait, how are you doing?

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Speaker 1: I'm good, thank you? What are you doing right?

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Speaker 2: Ah? Where everyone in the country is waking up to

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Speaker 2: the fact that we've all known how good christ Church, well,

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Speaker 2: not so much christ Church and Canbury. Canterbury is the

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Speaker 2: place to be. It's we've now We did used to

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Speaker 2: have after COVID eight eight hundred consents, but it was

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Speaker 2: manic then and put a lot of pressure on our

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Speaker 2: consents teams over everywhere for building consents because you don't

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Speaker 2: just whip down to your local trade staff shop and

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Speaker 2: grab an armful of consenting people. So we were under

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Speaker 2: a lot of pressure. But it's it's back GoF to

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Speaker 2: six thousand, five hundred, which is still better than every

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Speaker 2: everywhere else and it's it's a pleasure. What's good for

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Speaker 2: Canbry is good for christ Church. You have more people

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Speaker 2: in the city, it helps hospitality, that's good for everyone.

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Speaker 1: Are you are we talking houses or are we talking

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Speaker 1: apartments and townhouses and things?

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Speaker 2: Over fifty percent of the ones in christ Jute we

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Speaker 2: had nearly a billion dollars worth of stuff, is talking

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Speaker 2: christ Chuge Now in christ Churche a billion dollars worth

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Speaker 2: of new homes and half of those were units, townhouses

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Speaker 2: or apartments. And we want more people in the central city,

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Speaker 2: which is good. We had a name we wanted a

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Speaker 2: twenty thousand and we're not there yet, but this sort

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Speaker 2: of stuff really helps.

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Speaker 1: Where are you at with the twenty thousand goal?

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Speaker 2: I think a while ago is about nine. I think

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Speaker 2: we must be looking about twelve to thirteen. I'm not

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Speaker 2: sure I should check, but it is getting there is good.

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Speaker 1: And how's your infrastructure holding up? Because that's often one

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Speaker 1: of the problems when you go fast, you can't keep up.

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Speaker 2: Underground, there's always pressure. We've we've got a lot of

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Speaker 2: stuff repaired after the earthquake, which was good, even though

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Speaker 2: it's struggles. But the roading infrastructure is not bad because

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Speaker 2: down from Rollinston into town and Rangura into town we've

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Speaker 2: got some lovely new motorways built a number of years ago.

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Speaker 2: And that's helping people get here. But it's it's of course,

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Speaker 2: it's the water, it's a sur it's everything like that.

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Speaker 2: And I'm pretty happy we're keeping on top of it.

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Speaker 1: So what's happened to the truck the trailer that you moved,

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Speaker 1: the one that went viral?

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Speaker 2: Did ever? I can't believe that people read it so much.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, all I did was move at two hundred

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Speaker 2: meters down the road just to get it out of

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Speaker 2: this line of sight of this this poor guy that

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Speaker 2: got his visual you know, his outlook all ruined.

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Speaker 1: Yes, is it still there now?

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Speaker 2: No? No, it got picked up by the finance company

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Speaker 2: and it's I believe it's gone to an auction house

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Speaker 2: to get rid of.

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Speaker 1: Oh right, okay, so that's gone. So basically, it took

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Speaker 1: you eight months of in action. It took you coming

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Speaker 1: and turning a thing on and moving it to get

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Speaker 1: it moving again, and now s gone altogether, nineteen after

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