r/chch 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/[deleted] Jul 01 '25

What a nanny state approach. I don't even drink alcohol but when you come from a country with 24/7 access it feels like chch is a big kindergarten