Killer Quake & June 13 Quake. Linwood Park Village, Dallington Ghost Houses

Linwood, Dallington focus. 01.06.11. Fourteen weeks post 22.02.11, M6.3, Killer Quake, Leah, teachers & students still used portaloos at their London St school, where passing trucks shook the school.

After being flooded out of his Waltham Rd flat by the Feb 22 Killer Quake, Jake still used a chemical toilet where he dossed in a quake cracked garage, Sherborne St. He slummed there over winter before finding a decent flat in Geraldine St.

Luke missed two days' tech over the last two weeks due to water stoppages. Later Luke would lose more lecture time when tech staff went on strike!


01.06.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake, Linwood Park Village construction


After dropping Luke off at Sullivan Ave tech, I stopped at Linwood Park, Aldwins Rd to look at the temporary village being constructed for people whose homes needed post quake repairs / rebuilds. They would use the village as temporary accommodation while their homes were repaired / rebuilt, after slow EQC & insurers paid.


10.06.11. Post Feb 22 quake, Linwood Park board, Aldwins Rd


10.06.11. Post Feb 22 quake bldg progress at Linwood Park, Aldwins Rd, for displaced quake survivors, while their homes were repaired / rebuilt



Early days, village construction: steel mesh fence cordon, excavations, house skeletons, orange, Hi-Vis vested workmen, machines, mud. As the village was built on low ground, what would happen during winter rains?


10.06.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Post Feb 22 quake, Linwood Park bldg progress, Aldwins Rd



10.06.11. Ten days later I returned to Linwood Park. Builders in yellow & orange, Hi-Vis vests were building 41 houses, wintry trees backdrop. Behind a steel mesh fence cordon, a yellow digger & an orange digger excavated a drainage pond.

A gate guard in orange, Hi-Vis vest check-pointed truck access at Aldwins Rd entrance. LINWOOD PARK board at village gate: "Temporary Village For People Displaced By The Earthquakes."


20.06.11. Post June 13 quake, Tree Work, Linwood Park, Linwood Ave side


20.06.11. A week post 13.06.11, M6.3 quake, I revisited Linwood Park Village. Saw liquefaction volcanoes at 3 points within 25m of new housing: outside the Village steel mesh fence cordon, Linwood Ave side, Aldwins Rd entrance side & inside the steel mesh fence cordon near new housing. Impossible to see more liquefaction, as it was a drizzly, mid winter morn, Village roads & construction areas muddy.


20.06.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Post June 13 quake, Linwood Park Village construction, Aldwins Rd


20.06.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Post June 13 quake, Linwood Park Village construction by drainage pond, off Aldwins Rd


A black pipe snaked away from the half full drainage pond to a decapitated shipping container, outside the steel mesh fence cordon, used as a sludge sump, water pouring from the top of the container into a sewage stinking canal alongside Linwood Park Village. Building of the 41 houses continued nearby.


20.06.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Post June 13 quake, Linwood Park Village construction, Aldwins Rd


20.06.11. Post June 13 quake, liquefactioned Linwood Park Village construction, Aldwins Rd


NZ National govt website, information sheet, LINWOOD PARK VILLAGE SITE:

"... Many agencies have been involved in assessing the suitability of sites for temporary accommodation villages...

...Agencies include Department of Building & Housing, Christchurch City Council, Civil Defence, NZ Fire Service, NZ Police, Ministry of Social Development, Ministry of Education as well as geotechnical engineers & other specialists..."

Built by: "a consortium of Hawkins Construction, Spanbuild & Fulton Hogan..."

Managed by: "Christchurch City Council, NZ Police, NZ Fire Service, Ministry of Social Development, Civil Defence, Ministry of Education, Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority, Canterbury District Health Board, Other key agencies & stakeholders..."

"Management Plan covers issues: security & crime prevention, water & waste services, traffic management & safety, rubbish collection, noise & animal control..."

Rent: "2 person, 1 bedroom, $190 / week.
4 person, 2 bedroom, $271 / week.
6 person, 3 bedroom, 337 / week..."

Residents would pay their own power &amp telephone accounts.

Other prospective village sites: Rawhiti Domain & Kaiapoi Domain.

In comparison, we  paid $255 / week for our 3 bedroom, Heath St, Burnside rental.

A year later, June 2012, the above rental prices would contribute to the Christchurch housing crisis (denied by National politicians) where quake shattered residents paid exorbitant rents for poor housing. Although our Burnside, 3 bedroom house rent was increased to $270 / week, it was much less than Linwood  Park Village, 3 bedroom house rent. So much for NZ National govt largesse at Linwood Park Village.

 
20.06.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. June 13 quake cracked footpath, Linwood Park Village construction, off Aldwins Rd


20.06.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Post June 13 quake, decapitated container, doubling as a drainage sump, Linwood Park Village construction. "Normal" housing background, off Aldwins Rd


20.06.11. Post June 13 quake, sewage polluted canal by Linwood Park Village construction. "Normal" housing background, off Aldwins Rd

Linwood Park Village: A Potemkin Village where NZ National govt agencies cajoled displaced, traumatised people to rent village houses, after their broken homes were liquefactioned or condemned, awaiting repairs / rebuilds.

Locals had already voiced concern about flooding of low lying Linwood Park Village in winters & Linwood Park Village was already liquefactioned by the Feb 22 Killer Quake. (And June 13 Quake. Bob Todd complained to the Council about site drainage: News Advertiser 20.06.11).


20.06.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Post June 13 quake, 2 blue portaloos at Linwood Park Village construction, off Aldwins Rd


As Linwood Park Village would be liquefactioned by the June 13 Quake, before completion of the Potemkin Village, would people, already displaced by liquefactioned houses, be interested in sheltering in brand new, liquefactioned Linwood Park Village?


20.06.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Post June 13 quake, new drain pipes at Linwood Park Village construction, off Aldwins Rd


Meanwhile minister of Earthquake Recovery, Brownlee was reported in The Press, 20.06.11, that a "speculative" 10 000 to 12 000 houses would be demolished. "The Earthquake Commission paid the first $100 000 then it was up to private insurers whether the home was rebuilt or repaired Brownlee said."

Brownlee was disingenuous: NZ National govt in 2008 had not increased reinsurer cover for the EQC cap payment of $100 000 per residential property despite EQC asking NZ National govt to do so. (Finance Minister Bill English: "Bill's Big Blunder" - many Stuff Co comments). Thus EQC was under-insured, despite home owners paying compulsory premiums. After big quakes, Canterbury, residential property owners were caught between under-insured EQC & insurers reluctant to settle payments over the risibly low EQC $100 000 cap. Strife for home owners for years. Never mind future court cases.

NZ National govt's Potemkin Villages would never be able to accommodate the numbers of quake displaced people, thus aggravating the housing crisis.


20.06.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Post June 13 quake, Linwood Park Village construction


There was the idea of farmers flogging swampland between Redwood & liquefactioned Marshlands, to form a new housing development south of Styx River, 2 400 new houses!


01.06.11. Tilted bench on concrete, Feb 22 quake damaged, Locksley Ave roadside & CONTAMINATED WATER threat sign by Gayhurst Rd Bridge


01.06.11. White, plastic, tape, orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged road join, Gayhurst Rd Bridge


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged retaining wall, Avonside Dr, Gayhurst Rd Bridge


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake leaning house, Gayhurst Rd. The house leaned towards nearby Avon River by Gayhurst Rd Bridge


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged Gayhurst Rd by Gayhurst Rd Bridge


01.06.11. Gayhurst Rd Bridge view, Sept 4 & Feb 22 quake damaged house, Gayhurst Rd / Locksley Ave. The house would be demolished in 2012


01.06.11. Sept 4 & Feb 22 quake damaged house, Gayhurst Rd / Locksley Ave. The house would be demolished in 2012





01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, boarded house, Locksley Ave


Post 4 Sept, M7.1 Darfield Quake, I'd seen lots of Dallington damage on Gayhurst Rd. Glenarm Tce, Locksley Ave, New Brighton Rd. Post Feb 22 Killer Quake, I'd already trekked Dallington Tce & some of New Brighton Rd.


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Locksley Ave, nr Gayhurst Rd Bridge






01.06.11. I returned to Locksley Ave to see what the Feb 22 Killer Quake had done to Dallington. I did a circular trek, about 5km: from Gayhurst Rd Bridge, where I parked my car beside Avon River. Onwards to snap Locksley Ave, New Brighton Rd, Creswell Ave, Gayhurst Rd.


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Locksley Ave, nr Gayhurst Rd







01.06.11. Yellow sewage pump pipe & brown portaloo by Feb 22 quake damaged house, Locksley Ave

Locksley Ave: Ghost houses damaged by the Sept 4 Darfield Quake were trashed by the Feb 22 Killer Quake. I saw many more ghost houses damaged by the Feb 22 Killer Quake, much liquefaction damage by Avon River. Locksley Ave by Gayhurst Rd Bridge was still in bad repair, riverside quakemire, although road holes & bumps had been evened out & shingle-repaired by the time I reached Glenarm Tce.


01.06.11. Blue portaloo, Feb 22 quake damaged house, Locksley Ave


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Locksley Ave, nr Glenarm Tce







01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, Avon River stopbank, Locksley Ave, nr Glenarm Tce


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, boarded house, Locksley Ave, nr Glenarm Tce


Locksley Ave to Glenarm Tce: Avon River, it was easy to snap damages to every ghost house: quakemire, broken garden walls, house cracks, broken windows, damaged driveways, broken walls, tilted houses, warped garages, houses settled into mud, wood braced houses, broken roofs, scattered roof tiles.


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, blue portaloo, quake tilted power poles, Locksley Ave / Glenarm Tce


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, roadwork machines, Glenarm Tce


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, concrete curb, Locksley Ave / Glenarm Tce


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, green, plastic, sewage tank, Locksley Ave, nr Glernarm Tce


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, wood braced house, Locksley Ave



Locksley Ave: All ghost houses by Avon River, few obscuring walls or hedges.


01.06.11. UNEVEN SURFACE. Feb 22 quake, Locksley Ave view, sewage polluted Avon River, Locksley Ave / Glenarm Tce


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake tilted house, Locksley Ave



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged roof, tiles awry & blue portaloo, Locksley Ave


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, steel mesh fence cordoned, Snell Pl Footbridge, Locksley Ave - Avonside Dr. The footbridge would be demolished



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Locksley Ave, nr Kerrs Reach







CONTAMINATED WATER threat signs stood along Avon River bank. The concrete Snell Pl Footbridge ghost over Avon River, between Avonside Dr & Locksley Ave, was steel mesh fence cordoned both sides. A boy climbed over the fences, first checking I wasn't snapping him, then skateboarding acros. Snell Pl Footbridge would soon be demolished.


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, Locksley Ave CONTAMINATED WATER sign. Avon River & Avon Park beyond


01.06.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake, Locksley Ave view, orange pump, Avonside Dr & Avon Park

Locksley Ave: Beyond an Avon River bend by Kerrs Reach, Avonview Retirement Village was quake damaged, but occupied. Across the road, Kerrs Reach riverbank had huge quake cracks & slumping due to lateral spreading.


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, Avonview Retirement Village, Locksley Ave


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, Avonview Retirement Village, Locksley Ave view, Kerrs Reach rowing clubs


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake cracked footpath, Locksley Ave, Kerrs Reach. Rowing clubs opp bank


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, Avonview Retirement Village, Locksley Ave








01.06.11. Feb 22 quake slumped Avon River bank, Kerrs Reach, Locksley Ave. Slumping was due to lateral spreading. Avon Park beyond


01.06.11. CONTAMINATED WATER. Locksley Ave view, Feb 22 quake trashed Avon Rowing Club, Kerrs Reach. Avon Rowing Club would be demolished & rebuilt




01.06.11. Locksley Ave view, Feb 22 quake sunk Union Rowing Club, Kerrs Reach. Union Rowing Club would be fire razed, demolished & rebuilt


01.06.11. Locksley Ave view, Feb 22 quake trashed Union Rowing Club & Avon Rowing Club, Kerrs Reach. Both rowing clubs would be demolished & rebuilt


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, relocation junk & blue portaloo, Locksley Ave


01.06.11. Locksley Ave view, Feb 22 quake damaged, Arawa Canoe Club, Kerrs Reach


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Locksley Ave, Kerrs Reach


01.06.11. Locksley Ave view, Feb 22 quake sunk Christ's College Rowing, Kerrs Reach. Christ's College Rowing would be demolished & rebuilt


Locksley Ave: Across Avon River, rowing clubhouse ghosts were more damaged than post Sept 4 Darfield Quake. The concrete KERRS REACH sign by Union Rowing Club was sunk into the riverbank beneath asphalt. Only signs of clubhouse life were waterfowl crapping on pontoons. Avon Rowing Club, Union Rowing Club & Christ's College Rowing would be demolished & rebuilt.

Passed a burnt out ghost house, black rafters pointing to grey sky. Business couple mowed lawns at some ghost houses, pretending broken homes were occupied. Later, ghost houses would be targeted by thieves & vandals. The sooner ghost houses along Avon River banks were demolished the better.


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, burnt out house, Locksley Ave, Kerrs Reach



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, blue portaloo, Locksley Ave, Kerrs Reach


01.06.11. Canada geese, Feb 22 quake cracked footpath, Kerrs Reach, Locksley Ave. Cracking was caused by lateral spreading


01.06.11. Duck & Canada geese, Feb 22 quake cracked footpath, Kerrs Reach, Locksley Ave. Cracking was caused by lateral spreading

Locksley Ave: In places, Avon River bank was heightened by a small, post quake stopbank. I walked on top for clearer snaps, not the only walker: ladies, dog walkers, joggers. I chatted to an old lady who remarked that Locksley Ave was dead. I told her that on the afternoon of the 22.02.11 Killer Quake, from London St Leah & I'd smelt people burning after CTV multi-storey collapsed. Scuttling past the lady, a catch in my throat, I wept at the thought. Since last September we'd endured 1000s of quakes. If seismologists were correct there were 1000s more to come. Cantabrians all endured that quake threat, unsure when the next quake would strike.


01.06.11. Jogger, post Feb 22 quake stopbank, Kerrs Reach, Locksley Ave


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, double storey house, Locksley Ave



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake slumping below post quake stopbank, Kerrs Reach, Locksley Ave. Slumping was caused by lateral spreading




01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Locksley Ave, Kerrs Reach













Locksley Ave: Road repairs went on at Kerrs Reach. Fulton Hogan excavators & trucks abounded, while orange, Hi-Vis vested workmen did repairs. In vain, as CERA would red zone Locksley Ave. It would be months before CERA zoned houses properly. Money was wasted doing unnecessary repairs to housing & roads, prior to CERA's slow zoning. Conflict & money wastage between Council & CERA, as CERA duplicated Council functions, and seconded Council staff for CERA work.


01.06.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake, repairs to Locksley Ave drain, Kerrs Reach



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Locksley Ave, Kerrs Reach




01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, Locksley Ave repairs by Kerrs Reach stopbank


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Locksley Ave, Kerrs Reach



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake cracked footpath & repairs to Locksley Ave, Kerrs Reach



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, Locksley Ave repairs, Kerrs Reach




01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, rubbish bin, blue portaloo, Locksley Ave, Kerrs Reach


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house & garage, Locksley Ave, Kerrs Reach



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged drain, orange, plastic, road cone, Locksley Ave


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, steel gate, Locksley Ave


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake house sign, Locksley Ave




01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Locksley Ave


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, orange portaloo & man emptying a chemical toilet into a green, plastic, sewage tank, Locksley Ave


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, orange portaloo & autumn leaves on Kerrs Reach stopbank, Locksley Ave

Locksley Ave: Passed many quake tilted, ghost houses & quake sunk, ghost houses, wallowing in quakemire. At first glance houses looked OK, but many were tilted or twisted a few degrees off vertical & / or horizontal. A place of misery, weeping. By the opp Avon River bank, Avonside Dr houses were stuffed too.

Some red stickered houses were abandoned, others still inhabited. Board, hand-written sign:

WE ARE STILL
LIVING HERE!

Some people placed such signs to warn looters, rubberneckers.


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Locksley Ave



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake sunk house, Locksley Ave





01.06.11. Feb 22 quake liquefactioned house, Locksley Ave


01.06.11. Orange portaloo, Feb 22 quake skewed power pole & Orion electrical units, Locksley Ave



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Locksley Ave


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, CONTAMINATED WATER threat sign by drain hatch, Kerrs Reach, Locksley Ave. Avonside Dr across Avon River, quake damaged housing


01.06.11. Orange, Hi-Vis vested workman. Feb 22 quake, Kerrs Reach stopbank & slumping of Avon River bank, Locksley Ave / New Brighton Rd. Slumping was caused by lateral spreading



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Locksley Ave / New Brighton Rd. The house would be demolished



New Brighton Rd: Busier. Ghost shops, steel mesh fence cordoned, red stickered, closed: Windsor Takeaways Fish & Chips; the Style Room; David Lawrence Real Estate; Pit Stop Tobacco Discounter; New Brighton Dairy. Windsor Court Motel ghost, yellow stickered, closed. Quakemire lay thick in overgrown gardens & on pavements. Graunched letterboxes. Snapped a ghost house I'd seen damaged by the Sept 4 Darfield Quake. It had sunk about a foot into quakemire by the time I returned 14 weeks post Feb 22 Killer Quake.


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefactioned driveways, New Brighton Rd, nr Kerrs Reach



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, New Brighton Rd



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefactioned letterboxes, New Brighton Rd



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, road sign, rubbish bins, green, plastic, sewage tank, New Brighton Rd


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake tilted power pole, New Brighton Rd


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, yellow portaloo by closed business, Queensbury St / New Brighton Rd


01.06.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake, red stickered, closed business, New Brighton Rd



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, yellow stickered, closed motel, New Brighton Rd



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, wood braced house, New Brighton Rd


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, blue portaloo, Kingsford St / New Brighton Rd


01.06.11. Sept 4 & Feb 22 quake sunk house, New Brighton Rd




New Brighton Rd / Creswell Ave: Watched orange, Hi-Vis vested workmen rewire & re-erect a cell phone tower, a crane supporting the tower while they worked. Like on New Brighton Rd, I snapped several ghost houses on Creswell Ave opp Burwood Park.


01.06.11. Orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Feb 22 quake, orange, Hi-Vis vested, workmen repairing cell phone tower, Creswell Ave / New Brighton Rd



01.06.11. Red stickered, Feb 22 quake damaged house, Creswell Ave









Creswell Ave: Quaker Meeting House sign:

THIS VENUE IS CLOSED
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Please contact your group organiser

or

call the Quakers...

Quaker Meeting for worship will
now take place on Sunday at
12.15 pm at the

Mary Potter Community Centre
442 Durham Street

A wag once said, "We're all Quakers."

01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, beige portaloo, Quaker Meeting House, Creswell Ave



Gayhurst Rd: Busy with shingle road repairs, orange, plastic, road cones channeling traffic. All side roads had recently been shingle repaired. Colourful portaloos stood on pavements on all roads I trekked. In cold weather, portaloos had a distinctive pong: crap & hand sanitizer. Saw two people emptying chemical toilets into green, plastic, sewage tanks on roadsides.

Jake had used a chemical toilet in his quake cracked, garage "flat," Sherborne St, since the 22.02.11 Killer Quake. Chemicals in the toilet didn't remove the smell. The chemical toilet always smelt crap, unpleasant to endure during winter. Imagine having to carry your full chemical toilet down a liquefaction slippery driveway to a roadside, plastic, sewage tank, then pour your crap into the tank viewed by passing foot & vehicle traffic. That's what 1 000s of Cantabrians endured during 2011 winter. Never mind broken housing & roads.

Trashing of Christchurch's sewage system by the 22.02.11 Killer Quake was so bad that Christchurch soon used up the world's supply of chemical toilets! Bus stop, pink spray-spainted sign summarized:

SLOW DOWN
CRACKED
PIPES


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, Dallington Community Hub sign, Gayhurst Rd


01.06.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake road signs, Gayhurst Rd


01.06.11. Post Feb 22 quake road repairs, Gayhurst Rd. Rubbish bin & green, plastic, sewage tank on pavement


01.06.11. Steel mesh gate & steel fence cordon. Feb 22 quake, green & blue portaloos, school playground, Gayhurst Rd


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Gayhurst Rd







01.06.11. Post Feb 22 quake sign, St Paul's School hall demolition site, Gayhurst Rd. St Paul's School was trashed by the Sept 4 quake

Snapped the demolition site where St Pauls School hall once stood & was demolished post Sept 4 Darfield Quake.

*Trekked Aldwins Rd, Gayhurst Rd, Locksley Ave, New Brighton Rd, Creswell Ave. 244 snaps.

Coda:

02.06.11. Christchurch Council leeches: Mark Sainsbury, TV Close up interviewed Christchurch deputy mayor Ngaire Button, risibly defending why Council gardeners were gardening in the CBD red zone, while citizens & ratepayers like CBD business persons were banned access to the CBD red zone. There were many gardens outside the CBD red zone needing Council attention, including ratepayers' overgrown, quake damaged gardens & Council parks, gardens, pavements, footpaths, verges. Some Councillors went on a San Francisco trip, viewing old, quake rebuilds there! Waste of ratepayers' money, soon roiling anger would be expressed in public protests.

Queens Birthday, 06.06.11: 9.09am, M5.5 quake, 15km deep, 20km SW of Christchurch, spoilt our sleep. Later in the day: 5.04pm, M4.5 quake, 10km depth, 20km W of Christchurch. (GeoNet).

Post June 13 Quake, M6.3, on Thurs 23.06.11, PM Key & Minister of Earthquake Recovery, Brownlee would announce the zoning of Christchurch into red, orange, green, white zones, according to the state of the ground, post quakes. It took them 4 months concocting that zoning scenario post 22.02.11 Killer Quake. Dithering CERA would take many months to complete zoning before EQC & insurers could do their jobs properly.

Locksley Ave, Glenarm Tce, Avonside Dr & some of Gayhurst Rd, Dallington Tce, River Rd & New Brighton Rd would eventually be red zoned by CERA, meaning destroyed land & evacuation, after NZ National govt & / or insurance payout, for quake destroyed land / housing & displacement of home owners.

Other property zonings: green, white, orange, the latter two causing limbo, while CERA dithered whether land could / would be fixed or not.

Early 2012, CERA would include the Landcheck website in the CERA website, hindering zone searches, obscuring seeing at a glance different zoning in a specific street. Thus CERA made it impossible to check zonings properly. CERA only allowed a search for a specific property.

Why did NZ National govt take so long with zonings? By the end of June 2012, CERA still hadn't completed rezoning Port Hills white zone properties. After 1 000s of property zonings, 166 white zoned, Port Hills properties still had a rezoning deadline, August 2012. Residential property zoning consisted of delays by CERA / NZ National govt & strife for homeowners.

Once properties were zoned properly only then could homeowners deal with NZ National govt & / or insurers for compensation, repairs or rebuilds. NZ National govt offers were non-negotiable & insurers just delayed payments with excuses. NZ National govt did nothing about insurers' delays.

By October 2013, many red zone houses along Glenarm Tce & Locksley Ave would be bought by NZ National govt & demolished by CERA.

By the end of 2014 most houses along Locksley Ave & many houses along Gayhurst Rd, Glenarm Tce & New Brighton Rd would be demolished by CERA, replaced by fenced grassland. Residential red zone trees & shrubs would be left, a parkland effect, spoilt by CERA's cordon fences & KEEP OUT signs.

Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.