• A $20 million plan would create a new bulk retail complex for Rangiora and bring retailers Briscoes and Animates to North Canterbury for the first time.

The 1.2 hectare site, at the corner of High St and East Belt, has been sold by the Warehouse to Christchurch property development Canterbury Property Investments. The price was $5.8m.

The land is next to the Warehouse store and has been used as carparking.

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Stacy Squires. Briscoes’ Rangiora store will be about the size of this one in central Christchurch.