• Earthquake-damaged Lancaster Park could become a rest home for aged sports fans, a report prepared for Christchurch City Council says.

“The popularity for aged rugby followers to live at the Lancaster Park Retirement Village in the Hadlee wing or the Deans wing of the complex  conjures up the imagination,” quantity surveyor Rawlinsons said in its Lancaster Park Options report.

A similar idea at Athletic Park in Wellington had been a “long-time hit”; Village at the Park opened in 2001.

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One option for Lancaster Park’s future is to become a rest home for aged rugby fans.