16 September 2016 – The cost to the New Zealand tax payer for testing, cleaning and repairing meth contaminated state housing has risen $18m to $21m over the past year, according to this news story. The bill has been steadily rising too from $2.9m last year up from $700,000 the year before that. This doesn’t […]
9 September 2016 – After discovering that 70% of rental properties in just one area were contaminated by meth, a private investigation and meth testing company have determined that only routine testing by landlords and property managers is going to curb the damage to property caused by the use of this drug. Often, drug users will […]
6 September 2016 – Author: Kathryn Powley – Source: Herald Sun HOMEOWNERS and landlords of ice-contaminated properties are being let off the hook — while others are being made to fork out tens of thousands to make them liveable again. A Herald Sun investigation has found inconsistencies across councils, with some allowing former drug lab […]
5 September 2016 – Source: sunlive.co.nz The country’s biggest landlord, Housing New Zealand, has sent the strongest possible message to state housing tenants warning of its zero tolerance to illegal activity on its properties. And that especially includes the use and abuse of methamphetamine. “While the issue of methamphetamine is high-profile right now, we have […]
2 September 2016 – Source: Radio New Zealand Home buyers need to have meth test provisions in their purchase agreements, says an Auckland property lawyer. Workers at a contaminated site. Photo: Contaminated Site Solutions The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s business unit is working on a standard for the testing and cleaning of properties […]
7 June 2016 – Author: Leighton Keith – Source: Stuff.co.nz A grandmother who discovered her New Plymouth home was contaminated with methamphetamine wants testing for the drug to be made mandatory when properties change hands. Kerryanne Hopkins bought her two bedroom unit on Frankley Rd in October 2015. The 49-year-old carried out renovations and planned to sell it for a small profit. […]
15 August 2016 – Author: Benedict Collins – Source: Radio New Zealand News New methamphetamine contamination guidelines cannot come soon enough, Auckland District Law Society says. Methamphetamine contamination guidelines being developed by Standards New Zealand are expected to be ready early next year. Auckland District Law Society vice president Joanna Pidgeon said testing for meth prior […]
7 August 2016 – Author: Martin La Touche – Source: Elite Property Manager METHAMPHETAMINE, ALSO KNOWN AS ICE, ‘P’, or crystal meth, has become a major issue for the housing industry in New Zealand and many states of the USA. It’s growing in use throughout Australia due to the ease with which it can be manufactured and the […]
10 June 2016 – Author: Laura Walters – Source: stuff.co.nz Houses contaminated through the cooking or smoking of methamphetamine is a growing issue in New Zealand. Just one session smoking the Class A drug, also known as P or Ice, could be enough to produce a positive test result. However lack of national testing standards […]
9 August 2016 – Author: Robyn Yousef – Source: NZ Herald Robyn Yousef: ‘What makes anybody think it’s okay to do this?’ Methamphetamine smokers are wreaking havoc in our housing rental market. Along with a major shortage of properties, the number of properties needing decontamination this year is skyrocketing and the clean-up issue has created […]
21 July 2016 – Author: Georgia Forrester – Source: stuff.co.nz The testing for methamphetamine in Manawatu homes has doubled for at least one agency in the past two years. NZ House Surveys has seen requests for inspections spike amid growing awareness and concern for illnesses related the manufacture of the drug. . Founder Jeff Twigge said more than […]
12 July 2016 – Author: Kristin Edge – Source: NZ Herald Suspicious behaviour at a coastal holiday home has led to the discovery of a methamphetamine lab in Northland. Emergency services were called to the house in Dolphin Place, on the Tutukaka Coast, about 2pm on Sunday. A neighbour said they arrived home to a police […]
30 May 2016 – Author: Selina Powell – Source: stuff.co.nz The sale of a Housing New Zealand property is in limbo over concerns it has been contaminated with methamphetamine. Viewings of the four-bedroom house in Blenheim were suspended last Tuesday after a prospective buyer claimed the house was contaminated with meth. A Housing New Zealand spokeswoman […]
28 May 2016 – Author: Kathleen Noonan – Source: The Courier Mail WHAT does meth in the suburbs look like? Right now, I can tell you what it sounds like. Take a steer, teach it to swear profusely and savagely, tie it up, then torture it and listen. Like that. What does meth look like? […]
30 March 2016 – Author: Rob Kidd – Source: NZ Herald It’s not easy funding a wedding. Most people scrimp, save or borrow; but Scott Ian McArthur decided to raise the cash by cooking meth. The 42-year-old avoided a prison term by the narrowest of margins in Auckland District Court last week when he was […]
16 June 2013 – Source: news.com.au FORMER “meth labs” are being sold and rented to families across New South Wales, with no legal requirement for real estate agents to disclose the property was once used to produce illegal drugs. Unlike laws which require agents to disclose any “material facts” relating to a suspicious death at […]
4 June 2014 – Author: Stephen Smith – Source: sourceable.net All around the world, a growing phenomenon of using private and often rented accommodation as laboratories for producing methamphetamine is causing enormous headaches for property owners and neighbours and spawning a new wave in construction related litigation. Methamphetamine, also known as crystal meth, P or […]
20 May 2015 – Author: Alyse Edwards – Source: ABC News Cleaning up meth labs set up in public housing has cost the Queensland Government more than $600,000 in the past three years. Queensland has the dubious honour of leading the nation in methamphetamine production, with more clandestine drug laboratories uncovered each year than anywhere else […]
11 June 2016 – Author: Katherine Powley – Source: Herald Sun A SIX-year-old boy was found with the same levels of methamphetamine in his system as an adult drug abuser after his family unwittingly bought a house that had been used as an ice drug lab. The shocking case has led to warnings for prospective homeowners and […]
13 October 2015 – Author: Rebecca Puddy – Source: The Australian It is only a matter of time before a child dies in a house that was once used as a meth lab, clean-up companies have warned. Steamatic national marketing director Mark Silveira said business was booming for cleaning companies across the nation after a rise in […]