How coastal hazards could impact your property, and what you can do about it.
Christchurch coastal hazards online portal
Explore how different areas across the Christchurch District may be affected by coastal hazards.
Our Christchurch coastal hazards interactive map(external link) lets you explore how different areas across the Christchurch District may be affected by coastal hazards.
This portal presents three coastal hazards - coastal flooding, coastal erosion, and groundwater rise - and explores how these could change over time with sea level rise.
Climate adaptation toolkit
Under development is a climate adaptation toolkit. This toolkit is designed to provide a variety of strategies that you can implement to help strengthen the resilience of your property against different climate hazards.
Factsheets and summaries
- Property owners [PDF, 1.9 MB] - Information to help property owners in their thinking about sea-level rise and its impacts.
- Coastal Hazards LIM notations [PDF, 176 KB] - Information on changes to property LIMs in light of findings from the Council’s latest coastal hazards assessment.
- LIMs [PDF, 569 KB] - More information on Land Information Memorandums (LIMs), what they are and why councils issue them.
- Insurance and climate change [PDF, 322 KB] - More information from the Insurance Council of New Zealand on climate change and insurance.
- House insurance and climate change(external link) – Answers to common questions about insuring your home in the face of sea-level rise and other climate hazards, Deep South National Science Challenge.
- Insurance Retreat: Sea level rise and the withdrawal of residential insurance in Aotearoa New Zealand(external link) – Storey, B., Owen, S., Noy, I., & Zammit, C. (2020), Deep South National Science Challenge.