10-07-2025, 04:10 PM
It's "Following a 20-year transition period" which sounds pretty reasonable. For areas that were settled 50+ years ago people can be forgiven for not realising what they have got into. Over the last few decades we have learned so much more about flood plains, liquefaction, earthquakes, risk from rainfall events, etc that anyone buying or building in a high risk area should have had their eyes wide open., Yes, I know we are still doing it, eg Papamoa and the proposed "city" between there and the Kaituna River, but the bottom line is that people who still want to live in these high risk areas need to open their eyes to the risk and be responsible for their decisions instead of expecting the government to bail them out when it all goes wrong.