A rural property owned by a former Christchurch sex-industry mogul could be turned into a temporary camp for up to 500 earthquake-rebuild workers.
Two blocks of land just south of Kaiapoi have been put up for tender by former brothel-owner Terry Brown on behalf of his family's Willowford Trust.
The 9.55 hectare site is deemed rural zone 2 and sits under the Christchurch Airport flightpath.
It cannot be subdivided for housing, but can be used to temporarily house earthquake rebuild workers after Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee approved changes to the district plans for Canterbury's quake-affected councils last year.
Brown said there had been a lot of interest in the property. A workers' camp would "liven Kaiapoi up", and boost the town's economy, he said.
Brown and his elderly parents, who had owned the Neeves Rd property for 23 years, moved to Picton after Canterbury's earthquakes.
The Willowford Trust would also sell its remaining land around Christchurch soon, cutting the family's last ties to the city, he said.
"We're happy up here [in Picton]. I might become a consultant to the sex industry [in Christchurch], but I'll see what the city looks like before I go back and reinvest."
Commercial agent Royden Mauger , working for Australian-owned portable building company Amoveo, said the company planned to make an offer on Brown's Neeves Rd properties.
If the plan went ahead, it would be the biggest temporary workers' village in Christchurch so far.
Christchurch company JGM Group had planned to build a temporary accommodation site for 200 workers at the Orion site in St Albans, but pulled out of the project earlier in the year.
Singapore company Tee International is still working on a project to convert a Riccarton camping ground into a $10 million complex for 300 workers and displaced locals.
Mauger said the proposal would be lodged within weeks, and the first units could be available to workers within three months.
"Christchurch is going to have a dire need for accommodation of this type. A lot of [the rebuild work] is going to start after the winter in Christchurch."
The units were built in China and could be shipped, fully assembled, to New Zealand almost immediately.
Tom Vassos, of Amoveo, said the company had "extensive experience" in building self-contained camps for mining companies in Australia. The Kaiapoi village would include its own security and have power, sewage and water recycling facilities on-site.
"Additional facilities such as kitchens, wet messes and gyms can also be provided."
Who is Terry Brown?
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Terry Rex Brown has owned several brothels in Christchurch but has sold his interests in the city since the earthquakes.
He was connected with the Wicked Willies strip club in Lichfield St, central Christchurch, where a patron, Barry Coleman, died after being found unconscious in the doorway at 3am on December 26, 1996. The nightclub's owner, Gregory Mather, was initially charged with Coleman's murder, later reduced to manslaughter, and he and Brown were later charged with obstruction after approaching a police witness.
Police dropped all charges in August 1997 after a private investigator found flaws in the police case and produced new evidence. Brown declared himself bankrupt in 2001 after a three-year investigation by the Inland Revenue Department's special audit unit for failure to file tax returns and for outstanding tax debts.
In 2005, he successfully challenged a Christchurch bylaw restricting big brothels to a central city zone and outlawing small, owner-operated brothels. He was fined $400 plus court costs by the Rangiora District Court in 2010 for possessing unlicensed firearms. The charges came after reports of shots on Brown's Kaiapoi property prompted an Armed Offenders Squad callout.
- ? Fairfax NZ News
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