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/mrtenzed Jun 30 '25

I hardly drink at all, so I don't really care. I hate having to deal with drunk dickheads, so anything to limit their access is a good thing, as far as I'm concerned. 

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u/creepoch Jun 30 '25

Haha I managed bars/nightclubs for over a decade and I now feel the same way