Thursday 14.06.12. CERA's temporary village, Rawhiti Domain, New Brighton: Weeks before I'd looked for building there, but nothing was happening. More than a year post 22 February 2011 Quake, according to CERA's website CERA minister Brownlee announced building of the temporary village at Rawhiti Domain. Why did NZ National government delay building another temporary village?
14.06.12. Rawhiti Domain entrance, Shaw Ave
14.06.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Contractor Truck. Post quakes, Temp Village, Rawhiti Domain entrance, Keyes Rd
14.06.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Post quakes, Temp Village, Rawhiti Domain
14.06.12. Fallen branches due to snow. Post quakes, Temp Village, Rawhiti Domain
14.06.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Post quakes, Temp Village, Rawhiti Domain
Near the golf course, 19 two-bedroom temporary-houses stood in two rows with wooden steps almost completed by each house. They looked like cheap army barracks. Workmen wearing orange Hi-Vis vests & hard-hats built the temporary housing behind a steel-=mesh-fence-cordon.
14.06.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Post quakes, Temp Village, Rawhiti Domain
14.06.12. Broken steel mesh fence cordon, due to fallen branch during snow. Post quakes, Temp Village, Rawhiti Domain
Tall pines loomed both sides of the development going to Keyes Rd entrance. Fallen branches lay about due to last week's snowfall. A steel-mesh-fence-cordon around the housing-development was damaged at one place where a heavy branch fell. There was ample space in Rawhiti Domain for more housing if needed.
NZ National government / CERA deemed some ruined-land as red-zone land, uninhabitable by its own geotech rules made by Tonkin & Taylor geotech engineers. CERA then offered red-zoners a choice of two 2007 Rateable Value land-deals for their residential-properties. If red-zoners took the deal, then NZ National government / CERA took over red-zoners' ceded insurances & land & forced red-zoners off their land with a deadline, using red-zoners' own insurance money to pay them the 2007 Rateable Value for their property. Thus NZ National government / CERA got land for nothing & red-zoners lost their land if they accepted the duress-offer. Most red-zoners would accept the offer & leave. Hobson's choice.
Why did NZ National government / CERA expect red-zoners to pay exorbitant rents (during the housing-crisis) for cheapskate "village" houses, while red-zoners searched for other land / housing?
15.06.12. CERA website's "roaring success" news:
"Insured owners of the 7 253 properties in the residential red-zone have been given two offers...
Of the 5 054 property-owners to sign a sale and purchase agreement to date, 1 155 have chosen option 1, & 3 899 have chosen option 2.
And of those who have signed an agreement, 3 956 have already concluded settlement at a cost to the Crown of $762 million..."
NZ National government / CERA didn't say what it would do with all the red-zone land obtained under duress from Christchurch's residential land- owners.
CERA website published CERA's media-releases which were published verbatim by media. Thus CERA controlled the narrative with little criticism from journalists.
*Trekked Shaw Ave, Keyes Rd. 18 images.
Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.
See New temporary village announced 23 March 2012 (CERA).
See 'Cruel' zoning process gives 'false hope' (The Press / Stuff Co).
Responded to an email from Radio New Zealand inquiring about CERA's Rawhiti Domain Village "opening date, uptake & progress of works."
ReplyDeleteReplied to an email from a resident Indonesian, freelance writer, who'd survived the 28 Sept 2018, Palu city quake, liquefaction & tsunami. He inquired about Christchurch red zone relocations, temp & permanent; EQC; free NZ govt accommodation, if any; condition of red zone survivors - better life, better housing?
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