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Selwyn residents fighting for homes after being told they need to leave them by 2039 (www.rnz.co.nz)

submitted 7 months ago by Dave to c/southisland

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Residents of a small Selwyn community say they will keep fighting to save their homes after being told they must vacate them by 2039.

The district council last month voted to confirm the eviction of the entire Upper Selwyn Huts settlement on the shores of Lake Ellesmere because of the impact of climate change.

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[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Its definitely not out of the blue; particularly given there's 3 different hut settlements around the lake and all of them are undergoing the same process. Lots of background & history on the decision here:

https://www.selwyn.govt.nz/property-And-building/upper-selwyn-huts-management-and-licencing

[–] Dave 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes. It looks like they were told in 2019 that it was likely they would not be renewed for much longer, and now they have been given an a actual date. So you could say 20 years notice.

I wonder about the person in the original article that moved there in 2019. I wonder if someone went to that council meeting, heard they won't be renewing for much longer, and sold their place while they still could. This lady comes and buys the place, then finds out it's all ending. Might be a lack of disclosure, a lack of due diligence, or maybe she moved there at the start of 2019 and had bad timing.

[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah I think there's probably a bit of some folks not really understanding what they were buying into as well. Like you can't really talk about something being your forever home when its a place that's not really for permanent habitation, where you don't have a land title at all and all you have is a license to occupy a structure on an otherwise communal piece of land.