New Zealand authorities to step up post-quake demolitions.
The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) will start issuing compulsory demolition notices to building owners in central Christchurch from Monday.
About 900 commercial buildings in the central city will need to be demolished because of earthquake damage.
The authority says it needs to follow a more complicated process than Civil Defence had to. But demolitions manager Warwick Isaacs says things will speed up once the issuing of demolition notices begins next week.
Owners will then have 10 days to say how they will proceed, otherwise CERA will carry out the demolition and send a bill.
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