PHOTO: GEORGE HEARD/STUFF – Loveridge had budgeted $5000 for work to the section. She has since received a quote for about $119,000 to remediate it.

A Christchurch woman cried after a contractor she trusted dug up her hillside section, allegedly leaving it unstable and requiring more than $100,000 in works to remediate.

Anna Loveridge hired Stone Lake Contracting to remove foliage from behind two retaining walls and clear a driveway leading to a build platform on her vacant, 2000 square metre Redcliffs property.

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