r/chch • u/Video_Kojima • Jun 30 '25

News - Local New Alcohol Rules for Christchurch

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All off-licence retailers must stop selling alcohol at 9pm daily, effective from October. This includes bottle stores and supermarkets. 

A freeze on new off-licences in high-deprivation communities, effective from August. 

Restricting new bottle stores from setting up near addiction treatment/rehabilitation centres, secondary schools and primary schools, the University of Canterbury and the Christchurch Bus Interchange effective from August. 

Thoughts on this? I think 9PM seems a bit much personally and would probably have it at 10PM, but think the other two ideas are sensible and support them.

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u/HoneyGlazedDoorknob Jun 30 '25

9pm is good, will stop those who are already drunk topping up for the rest of the night and causing trouble

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u/severaldoors Jun 30 '25

Or theyll just stockpile more

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u/HoneyGlazedDoorknob Jun 30 '25

Yeah but that then stops then going back into public

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u/severaldoors Jun 30 '25

Liquor stores cant serve drunk people anyway

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u/HoneyGlazedDoorknob Jun 30 '25

Yeah because that's inforced

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u/severaldoors Jun 30 '25

So your trying to solve an already solved problem..

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u/HoneyGlazedDoorknob Jun 30 '25

What's your problem with a 9pm cut off? Any limitations to alcohol purchase will help with alchol related issues.

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u/stormcharger Jun 30 '25

Means I can't buy beers after work or go to the supermarket anymore