28.06.11. June 13 quake, orange portaloo & quake damaged house, Gayhurst Rd
Gayhurst Rd / Locksley Ave red-zone focus. Tue 28.06.11. I revisited quakemired Gayhurst Rd / Locksley Ave, which I'd seen several times post 4 September 2010 Quake. More quakes & aftershocks had damaged housing & roads more. The corner by sewage-polluted Avon River became derelict, shaken & liquefactioned with deepening mud, neglected when people abandoned their houses.
In 2012 the corner semi-detached ruined-house would be demolished. By October 2013, all red-zoned ruined-houses near Gayhurst Rd / Locksley Ave would've been CERA-demolished. All Glenarm Tce ruined-houses would be demolished. Close to Avon River, some Gayhurst Rd ruined-houses would be demolished. All Locksley Ave ruined-houses would be demolished, except one house by Kerrs Reach opposite the rowing-clubs.
28.06.11. June 13 quake damaged house, Gayhurst Rd
28.06.11. June 13 quake, City Care, sewage sucker truck on liquefactioned Gayhurst Rd
28.06.11. June 13 quake, drain / sewage pipe checking workmen by quake sunk house, Gayhurst Rd / Dallington Tce
28.06.11. June 13 quake, Locksley Ave / Gayhurst Rd view, quake sunk house, Gayhurst Rd / Dallington Tce
28.06.11. June 13 quake, Gayhurst Rd / Locksley Ave, serial quake damaged house. The house would be demolished in 2012
When I revisited, freshly-graded Avon River stopbank was improved by Council workers: Tarseal-patches filled Locksley Ave cracks again. I parked near Gayhurst Rd Bridge & walked along Locksley Ave to Glenarm Tce, both of which were damaged in the 4 September 2010 Quake & 22 February 2011 Quake. Ghost-houses were more damaged by the 13 June 2011 Quake, M6.3.
28.06.11. June 13 quake, red stickered house, Gayhurst Rd / Locksley Ave. The house would be demolished in 2012
Gayhurst Rd: A A white, City Care sucker-truck pulled up to unblock drains & sewage-pipes again, by squirting water into pipes & sucking out quakemire. Fancier sucker-trucks had a CCTV unit for checking drains & sewage-pipes. Since the 22 February 2011 Quake & 13 June 2011 Quake, sucker-trucks unblocked drains & sewage-pipes non-stop.
28.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefactioned, quake damaged, double storey house, Locksley Ave
28.06.11. June 13 quake, blue portaloo, quake damaged, liquefactioned Locksley Ave
28.06.11. June 13 quake, liquefactioned, quake damaged Locksley Ave view, Gayhurst Rd Bridge over sewage polluted Avon River
28.06.11. June 13 quake damaged, brick, garden wall, quake damaged, brick house, Locksley Ave
Some insurers said although home-owners' houses may be insured for total-replacement, if the house could be repaired then insurance-payout would only be for house-repairs. That would cause conflict between home-owners desperate for equity & insurers wanting to pay peanuts.
EQC damage-assessments & insurers' damage-assessments often differed, causing more strife for home-owners. There were instances of EQC saying a house was a write-off & insurers saying the house could be repaired!
Thurs 23.06.12. PM John Key announced that NZ National government would offer to buy 5 100 damaged residential-properties, at 2007 Rates Value, on CERA-red-zoned-land. (Why Rates Value & not pre-quakes Market Value?) For red-zone homeowners, there was a choice of two NZ National government offers to buy CERA-red-zoned-land, or house, or both, or battle insurers. NZ National government's / CERA's zoning of Christchurch land into red, green, orange, white zones would traumatize many home-owners.
EQC - insurer delay example: Four years post 22 February 2011 Quake, 16 February 2015, The Press would report that 1 000s of homeowners still awaited resolution of their EQC & insurer claims, as EQC had woken from its $100 000 overcap coma & palmed-off overcap claims to insurers. Home-owners then had to battle insurers!
In 2014, private insurers settled 4 447 overcap claims. They received a further 1 963 overcap claims from EQC that year...
Insurers have yet to settle 43 percent of a total of 23 952 overcap claims. They have settled 13 566 claims so far, 45 percent of which were cash settled.
PM Key, CERA-minister Brownlee & NZ National government allowed EQC, insurers & reinsurers to mess property owners around for years.
28.06.11. June 13 quake, overgrown garden & quake damaged house, Locksley Ave
As for Civic Assurance not wanting to re-insure Council's infrastructure after several quakes: What kind of insurer didn't plan for aftershocks damages? (The Press 28.06.11).
28.06.11. Blue tarp on abandoned house roof. June 13 quake, garden wall quake damaged, house quake damaged, overgrown garden, Locksley Ave
28.06.11. June 13 quake, blue portaloo, quake damaged house, Locksley Ave
NZ National government land-grab: Government would soon become owner of Christchurch's red-zoned, riverside-land & swampland, bought from displaced home-owners at 2007 Rates Value. Would red-zoned, Crown-land ever be rehabilitated?
28.06.11. June 13 quake, tilted speed limit sign, tilted power poles, liquefactioned Locksley Ave & blue water pipe by sewage polluted Avon River
28.06.11. June 13 quake, locked, quake damaged house, Locksley Ave
*Trekked Gayhurst Rd, Locksley Ave. 58 snaps.
Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.
Coda:
2022. Dallington Landing, Gayhurst Rd / Locksley Ave: By 2015 rebuilt Gayhurst Rd Bridge, Council built roof-covered-shelters & picnic-spots on red-zone-land, beside Avon River, for citizens to enjoy picnics where liquefactioned ruined-houses once stood.
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