It's hoped plans to hand major Christchurch projects back to the City Council will boost rebuild progress at no extra burden to ratepayers.
After months of nutting out the details, the council and government have revealed how they intend to split remaining costs and responsibilities of the rebuild.
In the draft Global Settlement Agreement, the government will foot the building costs of the convention centre, while the council will regain control of the red zone, metro sports facility and bus exchange. Katie Todd reports.
