PHOTO: MATT SHAND/STUFF – Bella Vista homes director Danny Cancian: “It all started with council,” he said. “Those houses should never have existed.”
Tauranga City Council broke its own rules when granting resource consent to the failed Bella Vista Homes development.
Some of the Bella Vista homes now declared too dangerous to inhabit were awarded code-of-compliance certification by Tauranga City Council.
After the March 9 evacuation made as Cyclone Hola approached, however, the Bella Vista homeowners were told their homes had problems from the foundations to the ceilings. The few allowed access to their homes have been told to never have more than two people on the second storey. Even the ground the subdivision sits on is scoured and potentially dangerous.
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