There's big plans for the memorial white seat installation in Christchurch ahead of the fifth anniversary of the quakes.

The white chair installation was one of the first memorial's established after the February earthquake and includes 185 chairs, one for every person killed.

The site will undergo a spruce up this weekend to ready it for the fifth anniversary of the earthquake in just under a fortnight.

But Artist Pete Majendie plans to lodge a request to move the memorial from its current position across the road to the site of the CTV building in the near future.

He said the location is his preferred location because it's considered the earthquakes ground zero and would be healing to have the chairs there.

Majendie said he's received quite a lot of the support from the public.

But families of the people killed in collapsed of the CTV building have told Christchurch Central Development Unit they don't support the memorial being moved there.

CCDU Director Baden Ewart said feedback gathered from the families of the CTV victims suggests that any change to the site or its landscaping would not be supported.

And Maan Alkaisi, who lost his wife in the building's collapse, said the site shouldn't be used to represent the entire earthquake, when that's what the Canterbury earthquake memorial will be for.

He wants to see something dynamic on the site, which celebrates the people who died there, rather than simply mourns them

He thinks the chairs are static and sad, and he doesn't want his wife represented by an empty chair.

Meanwhile, other families think the idea has merit.

Murray Jones lost his son in law in the building collapse and is part of the trust pushing for the new memorial to be on the CTV site.

He said he'll put money towards the idea, to help others in his position with the grieving process.

Murray Jones who also donated a chair, thinks the site is so poignant for so many people that it makes sense to put it there.

The Christchurch Central Development Unit has offered to help Peter Majendie find a new home for the chairs.