A photograph of a damaged building. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Sullivans, Manchester Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Sullivan's Bar, 150 Manchester Street".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Bars in Manchester Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking towards Sullivans Irish Pub, 150 Manchester Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Sullivans Irish Pub, 150 Manchester Street".
A photograph of Manchester Courts, The Treehouse Bar and Sullivan's on Manchester Street, blocked off by a wire fence.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "154 Manchester Street, looking south".
Sullivan Park in Avonside. Liquefaction can be seen running across the park. Two signs have slumped towards each other. Blue pipes carrying a temporary water supply to the neighbourhood have been placed across the park.
A large crack in the ground at Sullivan Park in Avonside.
A large crack in the ground at Sullivan Park in Avonside.
A large crack in the ground at Sullivan Park in Avonside.
A large crack in the ground at Sullivan Park in Avonside.
An aerial photograph of a residential area in Avonside. The photograph has been captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Sullivan Park, Avonside. All of this is residential red zoned except for a tiny piece in the top right hand corner".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "148 Manchester Street".
A merry-go-round at Sullivan Park in Avonside. Its base is covered in dried liquefaction.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking south along Manchester Street from the Hereford Street intersection".
A large crack in the ground at Sullivan Park in Avonside which has resulted from the 4 September 2010 earthquake.
A large crack in the ground at Sullivan Park in Avonside. A large deposit of liquefaction has dried around it.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "148-154 Manchester Street".
A footpath on Galbraith Avenue in Avonside showing cracking from the 4 September 2010 earthquake. Behind it, Sullivan Park can be seen.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Avonside".
A pair of see-saws at Sullivan Park in Avonside. Dried liquefaction silt can be seen in the lower section of the photograph.
Bare patches of ground at Sullivan Park in Avonside. The bare patches mark where liquefaction covered the grass after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Site of Manchester Courts in the foreground on left. Then Tree house, Sullivans, Boogie Nights and Shooters Bars".
A significant portion of economic loss from the Canterbury Earthquake sequence in 2010-2011 was attributed to losses to residential buildings. These accounted for approximately $12B of a total $40B economic losses (Horspool, 2016). While a significant amount of research effort has since been aimed at research in the commercial sector, little has been done to reduce the vulnerability of the residential building stock.
A large crack in the ground at Sullivan Park in Avonside. A large deposit of liquefaction has dried around it, and plants are growing up through the crack.
A large crack in the ground at Sullivan Park in Avonside. A large deposit of liquefaction has dried around it, and plants are growing up through the crack.
In the wake of the Canterbury earthquakes, one of the biggest threats to our heritage buildings is the risk of earthquakes and the associated drive to strengthen or demolish buildings. Can Small Town NZ balance the requirements of the EQPB legislation and economic realities of their places? The government’s priority is on safety of building occupants and citizens in the streets. However, maintaining and strengthening privately-owned heritage buildings is often cost prohibitive. Hence, heritage regulation has frequently been perceived as interfering with private property rights, especially when heritage buildings occupy a special place in the community becoming an important place for people (i.e. public benefits are larger than private). We investigate several case studies where building owners have been given green light to demolish heritage listed buildings to make way for modern developments. In two of the case studies developers provided evidence of unaffordable strengthening costs. A new trend that has emerged is a voluntary offer of contributing to an incentive fund to assist with heritage preservation of other buildings. This is a unique example where private owners offer incentives (via council controlled organisations) instead of it being purely the domain of the central or local governments.
A large crack in the ground at Sullivan Park in Avonside which has resulted from the 4 September 2010 earthquake. Remnants of liquefaction silt can be seen around the edges of the crack.
A large crack in the ground at Sullivan Park in Avonside which has resulted from the 4 September 2010 earthquake. Remnants of liquefaction silt can be seen around the edges of the crack.