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This sucks
Your home could end up on a hazards map (leaving you to cope with all the negative impacts of that) because analysing hazards on a property-by-property basis is deemed costly and not seen as practical.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/535598/1100-properties-wrongly-included-in-nelson-hazard-maps
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/535638/if-it-s-sound-why-pull-it-down-son-of-couple-who-gifted-begonia-house
…”It was donated under the understanding that the council would maintain it. Now because of lack of maintenance they want to pull it down,” he said.
“We need this council to understand that some of us do believe in heritage and that things of this nature are worth saving.
“Goodness gracious, it’s the second most visited venue in Wellington from people from outside of Wellington – it’s important.”
The council thinks it may cost $20 million to fix but Norwood said the building itself was sounds and strengthened a few years ago.
“It needs some glass and a new heating system. That does not cost $20 million. So we have no idea where that figure comes from and what they’re including in that figure.”
In late November, Wellington councillors gave Begonia House a lifeline through an amendment that states the future of the building will be assessed after a review of it next year.
Council chief operating officer James Roberts previously said much of Begonia House was at the end of its life, and needed replacing rather than being “patched up”…
(The high-cost, high-spending administrators who seem to have fewer controls than politicians with the rights to run up debt AND TELL US WHAT WE NEED AND SHOULD HAVE AND NOT LET US HAVE WHAT WE WANT AND CUT SERVICES!!!! How do we get out of this impasse???)
I have a comprehensive handbook put out by the DSIR (DSIR Information Series No.122) of January 1977 informing on Slope Stability in Urban Development. I wonder if it forms part of the backgrounding for this Nelson setup.
Councils can fail to refer to stored information that is pertinent to present and future works. (I remember about the awful Dunedin landslip – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Abbotsford_landslip)
On 8 August 1979, a major landslip occurred in the Dunedin, New Zealand, suburb of Abbotsford. It was the largest landslide in a built-up area in New Zealand’s history, resulting in the destruction of 69 houses – around one sixth of the suburb – but no fatalities.
IIRR this landslip in Dunedin was triggered by removal of a ‘toe’ of a sloping piece of land which led to sliding movement of unstable land and underlying formations above.
Now we have much more polished informational material with detailed coloured maps etc and notional, modelled that. It makes for fascinating work for people who become desk wallahs on good pay. My handbook in contrast had been typed out probably on a manual typewriter and run off on ordinary white paper with black and white throughout; stapled and very informative.
We have had in Nelson a big hooha over section 29 of a possible housing by-law project. It allowed for much closer placing of buildings, leading to ‘living in one anothers’ pockets’ and in some cases in our hilly area, one house might block out all but a couple of hours of winter sunshine from a neighbour. We fought against such a return to slum conditions verging on the early 1900s. Yet talking to a young architect studying for full certification, there was acceptance of s.29 considered needed because of the urgent need for housing.
All we have learned over decades, even centuries, and improvements made which we thought were rational and secure are up for change as deemed by authorities. Yet the same authorities will oppress people who do something reasonable, but not allowed by by-laws etc and they seem nit-picking. The standards and controls seem arbitrary; authorities uninterested in serving the people who pay them. Ratepayers and citizens generally are beginning to feel preyed upon by such ‘rulers’ who are turning out to be as capricious as monarchs of old. And it seems that this is a microcosm of our greater political theatre.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/535611/auckland-council-sells-remaining-stake-in-auckland-airport
Awkward can’t manage its buses and its complex airport situation as well so has sold off its airport. That’s the NZAO way – go for the fast buck. Been the same since we came here to get land cheap and pull out gold and get rich quick we hope.
But the sad wee song of Paul Metsers* about the gold never found may resonate again about the whole country. Get in quick Maori there are other agendas not as clear and straightforward as yours.
* https://folksong.org.nz/fwltgold/
Farewell to the Gold
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