“Overstayer” set to leave New Zealand in disgrace, leaving debris behind him.
An English overstayer is due to fly home, leaving his Christchurch demolition and recycling business in what appears to be dire financial straits and potentially with a huge mess to clean up.
Chris Skelly, a director of Skelly Holdings and the Canterbury Resource Recovery Centre (CRRC), began in the demolition industry after the Canterbury earthquakes, and his companies have two demolition dumps, both of which breach Environment Canterbury (ECan) rules.
One dump is in Jones Rd, Rolleston, and the other in Cass St, Sydenham, behind the Harvey Norman department store where Skelly’s company has leased a former KiwiRail warehouse.
The huge warehouse is packed with unsorted demolition material that comes from Skelly’s own demolition projects and from other contractors.
CRRC charges a lower dumping rate than the Burwood landfill site, which makes it attractive to contractors looking for cheaper disposal options.
The Skelly companies’ new general manager, Richard Peters, said Skelly had booked to leave the country this weekend after reaching a “compromise” with Immigration New Zealand (INZ).
INZ was not “directly” forcing him to leave the country, Peters said, but he would not say whether INZ would allow Skelly back into New Zealand.
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