{"id":269156,"date":"2026-02-05T15:17:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/269156\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:17:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:17:20","slug":"tauranga-mayor-says-its-unlikely-mount-maunganui-landslide-area-will-remain-a-campsite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/269156\/","title":{"rendered":"Tauranga mayor says it\u2019s unlikely Mount Maunganui landslide area will remain a campsite"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a number of conversations to have with the families of those that lost loved ones, because we also want to be respectful and understand what they\u2019d like to see,<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I can probably confidently say we don\u2019t have a campground where the slip happened, we got to make some decisions around what we do with that land and how we remember this very tragic event.\u201d <\/p>\n

Access to Mauao is restricted<\/a>, and cordons remain along parts of Marine Parade and Adams Ave, as geotechnical experts assess conditions.<\/p>\n

Drysdale said the current focus is to mitigate risks around the Mount Maunganui landslip<\/a>, so that businesses nearby can open before the Waitangi weekend.<\/p>\n

He said three businesses remain closed on Adams Ave, but he\u2019s hopeful that they can safely open by Friday.<\/p>\n

Drysdale said shipping containers have been put in as a precaution, and more work will be done on Thursday to stabilise the land.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy putting these mitigations in place, and this is always subject to geotechnical advice, we\u2019re confident that we can make it safe enough that we\u2019re happy to open that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Drysdale said businesses have had a hard time since the tragedy, and he hopes that visitors can still come and support them during the Waitangi weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope that people still come down to the area and support these businesses; this was a natural disaster and no doing of themselves, but they have been caught in the crossfire, so we\u2019re doing what we can to support them.\u201d <\/p>\n

– RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019ve got a number of conversations to have with the families of those that lost loved ones, because…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12635,15357,42,302,56662,14224,17707,10934,13233,43,13120,312,1227,40,38,41,39,122,1533],"class_list":["post-269156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-area","tag-campsite","tag-headlines","tag-its","tag-landslide","tag-lucy","tag-maunganui","tag-mayor","tag-mount","tag-news","tag-remain","tag-says","tag-tauranga","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-unlikely","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}