Fresh calls have been made this week for a new assessment of the stability of land at Forrester Heights in Oamaru.
At the moment, 5.8ha of Forrester Heights land at Cape Wanbrow is at the centre of a local Bill to reverse the reserve status of the land, and although the issue is now before the Local Government and Environment select committee, the Waitaki Ratepayers Association says new geotechnical surveys are needed to investigate suspected stability issues.
The most recent geotechnical survey of the land in question took place in late 2010, but association chairman Warren Crawford late this week expressed his concern that there had not been any assessment of the land following the Christchurch earthquakes, and he called on the Waitaki District Council to conduct a new geotechnical survey.
Mr Crawford said much of the information sent to the select committee was "all old stuff".
"We are pretty concerned about the information given to the select committee. There has been nothing done since the Christchurch earthquakes, and we believe the select committee should be getting updated information."
NZ First MP Denis O'Rourke had already written to the council to ask for a survey, but the council should have instigated one automatically, he said.
In September, Dunedin North Labour MP Dr David Clark also said that he believed the New Zealand Earthquake Commission should assess the land.
However, council property manager Dougall McIntyre said that although there had notbeen a geotechnical survey organised since the earthquakes, results of previous geotechnical and subsequent non-geotechnical surveys meant there was "no question" of the land being unstable.
Any further work would be decided on by the council, under its property development policy, he said.
