Phil Mauger: Christchurch Mayor on a fifth of the country's new build consents being in Canterbury

There's no surprise from the Christchurch Mayor that construction is booming in Canterbury. 

The region's councils consented about 6,500 homes in the year to November – a fifth of the country's new builds. 

The number of consents in Christchurch was also triple Wellington's. 

Phil Mauger told Ryan Bridge there's been a billion-dollars worth of new homes built in Christchurch – half being units, townhouses, or apartments. 

He says they're aiming for 20-thousand more people in the central city. 

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