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Tauranga City Council CEO resigns after damning landslide failures

The CEO of Tauranga City Council has resigned after a review found a 2022 landslide that killed six people at a council-owned holiday park was preventable.

A review found the Mount Maunganui landslide that killed six holidaymakers was preventable.

The Long Sip
What happened

Tauranga City Council CEO Marty Grenfell resigned after a damning review found the Mount Maunganui landslide that killed six people was preventable.

The detail

Former High Court judge Paul Davison KC found the council had known about the landslide risk for 27 years and missed multiple opportunities to act.

What it means

Davison made 10 recommendations for systemic change, which the council has accepted without qualification and committed to implementing in full.

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What readers are saying

nita_sunbury
The Davison review noted the hazard was known for over two decades by successive consultants. It is hard to read that and accept that the CEO is the only one leaving when the systemic failure spanned twenty seven years.
dazza_rockingham
Resigning after the review findings doesn't bring those six people back.
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