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The Star Thursday September 17 2020 14 NEWS Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz Resident told to get rid of vehicles • By Louis Day A BUSINESS owner claims the city council has left him with no choice but to “run his business into the ground.” Abell Rentals founding director Allan Scott said he had to move his about 200-strong vehicle fleet from the inner-city premises it was occupying to his 4ha residential property in Avonhead, as the 30-year-old vehicle rental company began to feel the pinch of the Covid-19 pandemic. “It just got tougher and tougher so we moved out and suspended our lease on a temporary basis. With the pandemic, international travel is basically gone, which is something our business heavily relies on,” he said. However, the city council issued Scott with a directive, ordering him to remove all vehicles from his property by October 27. The city council said it had received two complaints about the vehicles and that storing them at the residence was in breach of the District Plan. Scott said this has left him with no choice but to sell his vehicle fleet and “run his business into the ground.” Scott called on the city council to rescind the directive, or provide some free accommodation for his vehicle fleet, but to no NOT HAPPY: Abell Rentals founding director Allan Scott stands outside his property where he is currently storing about 150 vehicles. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN avail. Storing the vehicles at his property was only a temporary measure until the borders reopened, he said. There are currently 150 vehicles at the residence, he said. City council head of regulatory compliance Tracey Weston said it began looking into the issue after receiving two complaints about the storage of vehicles at Scott’s residence. “Our regulatory compliance unit commenced an investigation, which has confirmed that under the District Plan rules the commercial storing of vehicles at this site is not allowed as it is a rural-urban fringe zone,” she said. “We wrote to Allan Scott advising that he had two options in order to comply with the District Plan; either apply for a resource consent for the activity to continue at his property or to move the cars to an alternate site where it is allowed. “Typically in these circumstances, we would give people ‘Personally I have survived a lot, I have come through a couple of divorces, I have come through a stroke, I have come through the earthquakes, but there is no way I could survive the city council.’ – Allan Scott 28 days to pursue either of these options. In this case, under the current circumstances, we have given Mr Scott 60 days to comply.” Scott said he had no choice but to sell the cars as he was not in a financial position to store them somewhere else and thought the process of applying for resource consent would prove to be “futile and extremely expensive.” He will now be selling them off in what he is calling the “CCC (Christchurch City Council) Forced Car Sale.” “I don’t have the money and I don’t have the energy to survive this,” Scott said. “Personally I have survived a lot, I have come through a couple of divorces, I have come through a stroke, I have come through all the earthquakes, but there is no way I could survive the city council.” Feel right at home at Bishop Selwyn Village • SUNNY AND SPACIOUS AVAILABLE NOW •RECENTLY REFURBISHED VILLAS Hi, I’m Lyn Purdon Village Manager at Bishop Selwyn Village. Our residents love living here and everyone does feel like they’re right at home. We warmly invite you to come along to see why Bishop Selwyn Village could be your new home. To make a socially distanced private appointment on Saturday 26 or Sunday 27 September please contact me on 03 379 4044 or email: manager.bishopselwyn@ultimatecare.co.nz Bishop Selwyn Village, 350 Selwyn Street, Spreydon www.ultimatecare.co.nz CHCHP_2009
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