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South New Brighton and Southshore are struggling to recover from the February 2011 earthquake.

LGNZ President and Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull want council to be required to identify publicly the dangers on property relationships.

South Brighton Residents & # 39; Association president, Hugo Kristinsson, has already said that Christchurch City Council should have imposed its own flood level standards on insurers and EQC. 659006] "An example would be to identify properties that are in jeopardy, whether they come from coastal erosion, flooding or groundwater elevation or whatever," he said. declared Mr. Cull

. In the Land Information Memorandum, we receive an immediate – understandably – repression from the landlord, who claims that we have devalued his property. To a certain extent … the board is responsible for that.

"Councils are not required to do all this work – we are allowed to, but we are not obliged.

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Seven years after the earthquake, the inhabitants of the Southshore face an uncertain future.

"If the councils are aware of this and do not put it the memorandum on land information, 10 years later, the new owner can come to the council and say, "There is water flowing on my property, I know you were aware at that time and you have not informed anyone.You have deliberately withheld it, you are responsible. "

" What we need is a central government, I believe, to require local governments, advice, identify risks and make them public. "

The question is very relevant to the suburbs of New Brighton and & # 39; Southshore Christchurch, both victims of the earthquake of February 2011 and now threatened by rising seas [19659017]. Two years ago, he fought data on flood and erosion risks in his property reports in a controversial report by geotechnical consultant Tonkin & Taylor

. The report, released in July 2015, identified 6,000 Christchurch properties that could be eroded. nearly 18,000 people are at risk of being flooded over the next 50 to 100 years.

Although scientists found that maps used to identify vulnerable properties were legally unhealthy, a revised report The President of the South Brighton Residents' Association (SBRA), Hugo Kristinsson, is commended Cull's suggestion that boards should publish information on risks to real estate

. in favor of that. "We should not be facing this situation in Christchurch where it has still not been treated and it's been almost eight years since this disaster happened," he said.

"These obligations should be on EQC (the Earthquake Commission) … and in addition we have the Civil Protection and Emergency Management Act, which has a risk-based planning, where the risk is supposed to be treated "This has not been implemented either, so wherever you look at the coastal risks in Christchurch, the authorities have shirked their obligations to the community, and the well-being of the community is suffering for the least. "

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