Photo: RNZ / Niva Chittock
A major Queenstown tourism operator and two other contractors have been sentenced for contributing to a landslip that inundated a residential street, forcing dozens of evacuations during record rainfall.
Skyline Enterprises, along with contractors Naylor Love Central Otago Limited and Wilsons Contractors Limited, were charged for breaches of the Resource Management Act.
A major landslip inundated Reavers Lane during torrential rain in September 2023, leaving 10 homes red-stickered.
Cars buried by slip debris in Reavers Lane, Queenstown Photo: RNZ / Angus Dreaver
Judge John Hassan sentenced the companies in the Christchurch District Court on Friday afternoon.
Skyline Enterprises were fined $130,000, Naylor Love $154,000, and Wilsons Contractors $61,600.
As part of an enforcement order, the companies were ordered to cover repair costs incurred by the Queenstown-Lakes District Council of over $200,000, as well as emotional reparation payments amounting to $12,000.
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