Work unlikely to stop despite ongoing protests
Work began on the controversial demolition of Christ Church Cathedral today – and it is not likely to stop.
Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (Cera) operations general manager Warwick Isaacs said the plan was to remove the windows over the next six to eight weeks and then bring down the spire.
Each time he went to Cathedral Square, Isaacs said, he saw new earthquake damage to the historic building.
“The building really shows its own story,” he said.
The Christchurch Wizard, Ian Brackenbury Channell, today contacted The Press to reiterate his outrage about the demolition.
He has collected thousands of signatures from people opposed to the demolition and has said he would protest outside the Canterbury Museum every Sunday at noon “to keep the pressure up”.
“We don’t believe any other town in the world would want knock down such a beautiful building,” he has told The Press.
“There must be a hidden agenda.”
But Isaacs today said work could “probably not” be halted once it had begun.
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