Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "5 Meadow Street, Kaiapoi".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "7 Meadow Street, Kaiapoi".
A cleared property on Seabreeze Close, Bexley.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Seabreeze Close, Bexley".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Seabreeze Close, Bexley".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Seabreeze Close, Bexley".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Seabreeze Close, Bexley".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Seabreeze Close, Bexley".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Seabreeze Close, Bexley".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Seabreeze Close, Bexley".
When I was a kid this bit of land in the foreground was level and extended at least three times further out, but after the earthquakes you can see the angle that land near the river slumped. We used to catch a lot of herrings (yellow -eyed mullet) here when I was a kid, hence the local name of Herring Bay. Across the river is the Bexley Wetlands.
A video of an interview with Prime Minister John Key about several topical issues. One of these issues is the housing crisis in Christchurch. Key talks about fast tracking the release of land in Christchurch, making sure there are enough resources in the city for building, and working with the Christchurch City Council around consenting. He also talks about the possibility of the National Party winning the Christchurch East by-election.
Workers operate a drilling rig, sampling soil as part of EQC's geotechnical investigation of TC3 land. The photographer comments, "The work of getting 'soil' samples from all the areas marked as green/blue zones in Christchurch. These areas may be susceptible to liquefaction if a major earthquake occurs. The soil samples were a failure as all they found was sand".
Topics - Would you like a pay rise of $10,000 a year? That's what the lowest paid Auckland Council staff will get if a plan to implement a minimum wage of $18.40 an hour goes through. The Insurance Council has received a briefing today after a report revealed hundreds of properties on Christchurch's Port Hills are on unsafe land. The GNS Science report released yesterday shows a major rain or snow storm could cause land already loosened by the earthquakes to move.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Gerry Brownlee (left), EQC CEO Ian Simpson, and geotechnical specialist Nick Rogers explain the EQC plan to remediate land damaged in the Canterbury earthquake".
Cracking in the land next to the Williams Street bridge in Kaiapoi, still not filled in. Tape has been placed on the fence posts to keep people away.
Christchurch woman Lavina Pockson and her family live in a house with big cracks in it, on land that's among the most damaged from the big September earthquake.
A house on Avonside Drive with cracks in the asphalt of its driveway showing where the land has shifted as a result of the 4 September 2010 earthquake.
The recent earthquakes in Canterbury have left thousands of Christchurch residents’ homeless or facing the possibility of homelessness. The New Zealand Government, so far, have announced that 5,100 homes in Christchurch will have to be abandoned as a result of earthquake damaged land (Christchurch City Council, 2011). They have been zoned red on the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) map and there are another 10,000 that have been zoned orange, awaiting a decision (Christchurch City Council, 2011). This situation has placed pressures on land developers and local authorities to speed up the process associated with the development of proposed subdivisions in Christchurch to accommodate residents in this situation (Tarrant, 2011).
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "11 Blue Lagoon Drive, a red zoned property in Brooklands".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "3 Blue Lagoon Drive, a red zoned property in Brooklands".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "4 Blue Lagoon Drive, a red zoned property in Brooklands".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "6 Blue Lagoon Drive, a red zoned property in Brooklands".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "5 Blue Lagoon Drive, a red zoned property in Brooklands".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "10 Blue Lagoon Drive, a red zoned property in Brooklands".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "29 Cannon Hill Crescent in Mt Pleasant".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "27 Cannon Hill Crescent in Mt Pleasant".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "2/29 Cannon Hill Crescent in Mt Pleasant".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "27 Seabreeze Close, Bexley".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "25 Seabreeze Close, Bexley".