Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre is located at 341 Halswell Road.
Opening hours
Te Hāpua: Halswell Customer Service Hub
The Customer Service Hub is open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
Transport
- The numbers 7, 100, and 125 bus routes stop nearby. See the Metroinfo timetables for more information.
- Metrocard top-up service is available at the CCC service desk, Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.
- Bikestands outside library
- Parking: outside library, with mobility access parks
Services and Facilities
- Services available at all Christchurch City Libraries
- Meeting rooms and bookable spaces
- Book a librarian one on one sessions
- AED (Automated External Defibrillator)
- Events at Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre
- View photos of the library on Flickr
Computers and technology
- Auahatanga - Creative Spaces including vinyl printing; 3D printing; heat press; badge maker; craft cutter; music equipment; Virtual Reality (VR); and photo, slide, and film scanner. Find out more about what is available at our Auahatanga - Creative Spaces.
- Public internet access computers:
- 16 free internet PCs
- 1 family history PC
- 3 children’s PCs
- 29 Computer Lab PCs
- 4 Mac Studios with audio/visual creative software
- Free wireless internet access
- Printing and photocopying
- Scan to email or USB
Collections
Total library collection size: 45,000 items
- Fiction and nonfiction
- Magazines
- CDs and DVDs
- Children’s and young adults’ material
- Stories to go
- Large print and Talking books
- Newspapers
- Ngā Pounamu Māori
- World Languages Collection
- English Language Skills collection
Meeting rooms
Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre includes two large venues catering for up to 450 people (300 in one space and 150 in the other), a medium-sized space for up to 40 people and four smaller meeting rooms. Kitchen and function centre facilities are included.
All spaces are bookable and available to the public and community groups.
Bookings and enquiries about the spaces for hire can be made by calling the Christchurch City Council on (03) 941 8999 or 0800 800 169.
The community meeting spaces are multi-use facilities available for community activities and private social functions. They include two large spaces catering for up to a total of 300 people and a smaller room for up to 30 people.
Find out more about the meeting rooms and pricing.
Ward and Community Board
Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre is in the Halswell Ward.
Waipuna Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton Community Board holds regular meetings that you’re welcome to attend. Anyone can ask to speak to the board about a local issue, activity or project. Find out more: Waipuna Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton Community Board
Red Café
Phone 322-5664
Monday to Friday - 9am to 4.30pm
Saturday and Sunday - 10am to 4pm
Holiday hours
Tuesday 24 December 9am to 2pm
Christmas Day Wednesday 25 December closed
Boxing Day Thursday 26 December closed
Friday 27 December 2024 10am to 4pm
Monday 30 December 10am to 4pm
Tuesday 31 December 10am to 4pm
Wednesday 1 January 2025 12noon to 4pm
Thursday 2 January 12noon to 4pm
Te Hāpua Halswell Summer Pool
Te Hāpua Halswell Summer Pool is open from Sunday 17 November 2024 to Sunday 30 March 2025.
Photographs
View more photos of the library on Flickr
Te Kete Wānanga o Ōtūmatua
How Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre got its name
Information from the May 2015 newsletter.
In a competition run from December 2014 to January 2015, Christchurch City Council received 162 valid suggestions. A panel of Council staff and rūnanga sorted through the entries and selected six finalists, which were voted on by the public with 766 votes between them. The winning suggestion was “The Halswell Centre”.
Throughout the naming process, the Council consulted with Mahaanui Kurataiao Ltd (MKT) and the two local rūnanga on a te reo Māori name for the facility to complement the competition name winner and reflect the local area. The consensus was for Te Hāpua, which roughly translates to “the lagoons”. This refers to the outdoor pool, as well as the location of the complex alongside Te Tauawa-a-Maka/Nottingham Stream, an upper tributary of the Huritini/Halswell River. This is in turn an important source of Lake Ellesmere (Te Waihora), which is very important to rūnanga.
Listen to the Māori name [106KB MP3]
About the development of Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre
The Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre, located at 341 Halswell Road opened Saturday 28 November 2015.
Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre opened on Saturday 28 November 2015 at 341 Halswell Road.
Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre is a new library and community facility built in south-west Christchurch. It includes a library with varied spaces for a range of activities, several large meeting rooms, inclusive community spaces and a Customer Service Desk. There is also a 5,000 square metre outdoor area that includes a swimming pool. The Centre is an accessible, welcoming and inclusive community resource for all.
