Soleares Ave, Port Hills, House Demolition

Soleares Ave, demolition focus. 21.05.11. Three months post 22 February 2011 quake, M6.3, I trekked a bit of Mt Pleasant suburb, Port Hills. At the bottom of Solares Ave Ave a small group witnessed a house-demolition by a yellow-digger. A house on the hill above displayed a NZ flag on the balcony. Nearby were eight ruined-houses above a collapsed road-cutting. All across the valley from Soleares Ave to Mt Pleasant Rd, I saw damaged, boarded, part-repaired houses.


21.05.11. Feb 22 quake, yellow digger demolishes a house, Soleares Ave, Mt Pleasant



















21.05.11. Feb 22 quake, NZ flag on a house balcony, above a Soleares Ave house demolition





21.05.11. Feb 22 quake, relocation junk & Council rubbish bins, Soleares Ave

At the end of the demolition-site stood three Council rubbish-bins & demolition-junk, like wooden-drawers, cabinets, metal... Since the quakes I'd seen tons of roadside, demolition-junk on footpaths, after homeowners & business-owners abandoned their properties. EXTREME DANGER was signified by all the junk, demolition-rubble, roadside-rubble, household & business possessions abandoned on properties & roadsides.


21.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Mt Pleasant Rd view, house demolition, Soleares Ave

*Trekked Soleares Ave. 24 snaps.

Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.