Hard News by Russell Brown

drone's-eye view of Avonside 'redzone'

from this Press article

and here is an article about the redzone tree survey

and yet another EQC head jumps ship before they are held accountable

Wow, shows what a huge area it is. How many displaced people...

Jimmy Ryan's amazing before and after drone video of Dallington.

Quietly glad to see a video where the music isn't Coldplay.

Jimmy Ryan’s amazing before and after drone video of Dallington.

Strangely broken link that gives me a URL saying:

"http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-the-greening-of-the-red-zone/Are%20you%20competing%20with%20secular%20spectacle%20like%20the%20movies%20when%20you%20create%20these%20productions?"

Strangely broken link

try this one:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/christchurch-earthquake-2011/67620380/eye-in-the-sky-captures-red-zoned-dallington-burwood

Thanks.

"There’s no way EQC will be able to get reinsurance for red zone land: it’s way too risky. Therefore no way private insurers will cover building houses."

It's perfectly possible for the red zone land to be engineered to be suitable for redevelopment. Would it be economic? I am guessing medium-high density development would be required to make the sums work. I would expect some redevelopment (if economic) given the location and to allow the government to recover some of its costs.

Jimmy Ryan’s amazing before and after drone video of Dallington.

Quietly glad to see a video where the music isn’t Coldplay.

That reminded me of an ancient one-sentence review of a Rita Coolidge album: "It's got a nice drone, you can nod to it".

Strangely broken link that gives me a URL saying:

Ha. Clipboard contents were not as expected. Also, why didn’t I just paste in the damn link and let it auto-embed?

Drone flew over the cuckoo's nest...
well the road between Sumner and Lyttelton at least...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/67684198/birdseye-view-over-sumner