Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Marlborough Civil Defence manager Ross Hamilton inspects the liquefaction damage at a property in Seabreeze Close, Bexley".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Marlborough Civil Defence manager Ross Hamilton inspects the liquefaction damage at a property in Seabreeze Close, Bexley".
People have until midnight tonight to lodge a claim with the Earthquake Commission for property damaged in the February Christchurch earthquake.
People in Sumner with earthquake-damaged homes are demanding answers from the Christchurch City Council about the future of their properties.
The Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee says all but a few Cantabrians will be able to rebuild on their original properties.
A house which has sunk on one side. Damage to the roof can be seen. The property has been taped off.
A property that appears to be abandoned. Detail of overgrown weeds and bricks behind the fence and the red rubbish bin.
Cordon fencing around a residential property. Damage visible is on the roof, revealing the corrgated iron where tiles used to be.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Marlborough Civil Defence manager Ross Hamilton inspects the liquefaction damage at a property in Seabreeze Close, Bexley".
Damage to a property where the brick wall has crumbled, revealing the internal wooden structure and the inside of the house.
Damage to a property where the brick wall has crumbled, exposing the inside of the hose. Seen over a garden hedge.
Damage to a property where the brick wall has crumbled, exposing the inside of the hose. Seen over a garden hedge.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 6 October 2011 entitled, "Absent from the Arts Centre".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 24 September 2011 entitled, "EQC Evaluation".
A prominent Christchurch property investor says the Government's anchor projects meant to help rebuild the city faster, has instead slowed it down. After the 2011 earthquake, the Government launched a recovery plan for the CBD, which had 16 anchor projects designed to spur on the rebuild. However, many have been plagued by delays and are still unfinished. Property investor Antony Gough told RNZ reporter Anan Zaki that unlike the Government, it was the private sector which ploughed ahead with the rebuild.
Time is nearly up for owners of on-sold quake damaged properties in Canterbury to apply to claim money for botched repairs. The Government announced last year it would give an ex-gratia payment to home-owners with properties that went over the Earthquake Commission's then cap of $100,000. Today is the last day for applications after the original August deadline was extended due to Covid-19. But there are calls to extend that deadline again, as applications have flooded in over the past month.
A video of interviews with three residents about their Port Hills properties. The video was filmed the day after Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee announced the red-zoning of 285 Port Hills properties. The video includes an interview with Marine Kent (whose house was zoned white to green), Mark Tranter (whose house was zoned white to red), and Tony Ging (whose house is still white-zoned).
A photograph of the street number and apartment numbers at 440 Oxford Terrace spray-painted on the footpath in front. The street number is written as 466 but this is the incorrect number for this site. The photographer comments, "The numbers were spray-painted in front of all the properties in the Avon Loop in order to keep track of the property number after the mailboxes were lost or removed".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Ground features. Sue Irvine's Halswell property was flooded by sand volcanoes and included bubbled-up areas of earth".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Judy Lawn carting liquefaction off her friends property damaged on an unstable part of Locksley Avenue in Dallington".
Earthquake damaged Christchurch homes written off by insurance companies are becoming hot property for investors wanting to make money renting them out.
The wait will finally be over for some Christchurch households when they find out whether their earthquake-damaged properties will be abandoned.
Looking over some traffic, a property across the street is getting some remediation work done. Some of the windows are boarded up.
A portaloo in Cranmer Square. In the background is a damaged property where the brick wall has crumbled, revealing the internal structures.
A residential property that has been damaged by the earthquakes. Next to it is pile of building rubble and bits of furniture.
A residential property that has been damaged by the earthquakes. Next to it is pile of building rubble and bits of furniture.
A view into a residential property, looking over the fence. The house has sunk to one side, and the roof has collapsed.
A damaged property that has been fenced off with tape and road cones. A pile of building rubble sits beside the house.
great to see a large number of volunteers turn up to shovel out sand from properties within the Horseshoe Lake / Shirley area.
great to see a large number of volunteers turn up to shovel out sand from properties within the Horseshoe Lake / Shirley area.