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Speaker 1: Queenstown Lakes Council voting today on Freedom Campus thirty percent

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Speaker 1: jump and overnight stays there region is the most popular

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Speaker 1: for them, double the number of the next most popular,

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Speaker 1: which was Nelson Tasman. Pressure on roads, lakes, waterways, all

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Speaker 1: that stuff. Andrea Beryl is with Save Clean New Zealand,

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Speaker 1: joins me this morning. Andrea, good morning, Good morning Ryan.

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Speaker 1: How are you very well house beautiful Queenstown this morning.

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Speaker 2: I'm in Monaca and I've not had too many cups

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Speaker 2: of tea yet, so I think we're all good. It's

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Speaker 2: it's still pretty dark, but yeah, it's all good.

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Speaker 1: Andrea. You're not against freedom camping, but what's wrong with

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Speaker 1: some of the places where they are doing it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I've worked in tourism for nearly over twenty years,

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Speaker 2: so you know, we know that the region heavily relies

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Speaker 2: on tourism. The problem is some of the areas that

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Speaker 2: they've chosen are just a little bit bizarre, like right

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Speaker 2: in front of people's houses. So I look after a

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Speaker 2: property on Bickon Point Road, which is heavily used by locals, tourists, travelers, bikers,

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Speaker 2: people walking their dogs, runners, and then they want to

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Speaker 2: five parking spots right outside this house. There's no rubbish facilities.

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Speaker 2: There's no toilet facilities and on rubbish we can't even

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Speaker 2: get our own rubbish picked up by the council because

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Speaker 2: the road is too narrow. So how on earth are

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Speaker 2: they going to deal with the rubbish from people leaving

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Speaker 2: it behind? Because not all campers, sadly, are responsible.

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Speaker 1: This is by laws. This is one of the fifteen

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Speaker 1: designated sides. Why how are they picking these signs?

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Speaker 2: That's a very good question. So it started with us

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Speaker 2: thinking about Beacon Point Road, but then it expands to

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Speaker 2: other areas in the region. We've got Allenby Park, which

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Speaker 2: is a car part right by Iron, which raises you know,

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Speaker 2: fire hazards. If someone sparks a fire, then Mount Iron

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Speaker 2: goes up and flams. You know, that's alarming. All the

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Speaker 2: rural roads, you know, they've got these rural roads that

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Speaker 2: have said, yeah, yeah, come and park on the rural roads.

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Speaker 2: But all the people that live on these rural roads

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Speaker 2: have said, there's actually no way safe for people to

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Speaker 2: pull over. It has to be five meekers from the

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Speaker 2: road on a hard surface or a heavy gravel sort

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Speaker 2: of area, and that's pretty much someone's driveway because the

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Speaker 2: rural roads don't have those. There's some of them are

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Speaker 2: so narrow that you can't turn around. So it's like

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Speaker 2: it's like they've just looked at a map and went

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Speaker 2: they're there, there and there, that they haven't really done

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Speaker 2: it by sight.

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Speaker 1: Andrea, what's it like? I mean, it's been a while

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Speaker 1: since we've hit a camera down there giving us an update.

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Speaker 1: But what's a lot? I mean, if people still doing

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Speaker 1: their business in the trees and on the streets and stuff,

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Speaker 1: or is a lot plainer than what it used to be.

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Speaker 2: Well, no, the water quality is deteriorating and why is that?

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Speaker 2: You know? And if we allow people to have these

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Speaker 2: so called self contained camper vans, you know, you know

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Speaker 2: these little backpack of vands, they don't they have a

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Speaker 2: little blue sticker saying that you know, they're going to

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Speaker 2: have a pee or a pooh in they're in their van.

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Speaker 2: They're not using those you know. The Camper Van Association, Yes,

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Speaker 2: they've got some beautiful big motor homes and camper vans

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Speaker 2: and they travel around and they're really for this and

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Speaker 2: we agree with them, like we want people to come

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Speaker 2: in their camper vans, but not everybody is going to

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Speaker 2: be using the toilets on board. And one other issue

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Speaker 2: is there's not that many public dumping stations for people.

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Speaker 2: If they are the responsible people, you know, they need

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Speaker 2: to empty the sewage. And I was looking the other

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Speaker 2: day and from Half to Queenstown there's only two dumping stations.

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Speaker 2: Two but gross, where are people supposed to dump that poop?

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Speaker 1: Well, that's what we're all now thinking about. Andrew, thank

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Speaker 1: you for your time this morning. Andrea Beryl save Quean

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