http://www.stuff.co.nz Messy freedom campers who trundle around the country in sleeper vans without toilets or self-contained utilities should be “shot”, the president of the New Zealand Motor Caravan Association (NZMCA) said yesterday… …NZMCA president Dick Waters said tourists in “whiz-bang” backpacker sleeper or rental vans should be banned and the drivers should be shot. Not [...]

Wellington City Councillors have approved the construction of a campervan park on Wellington’s waterfront and asked the Council’s waterfront company to prepare a business case to demonstrate the financial viability of a proposed ice skating rink and temporary tensile fabric structure. http://www.wellington.govt.nz/news/display-item.php?id=3746 So now there is a choice in Wellington. No more having to put [...]

No more Coromandel freedom camping. A new bylaw comes into effect that will see anyone pitching a tent by the beach, rather than at a camping ground fined $40. Usual story: the few (including tourists) that spoil it for the many. You know, like dumping your waste on the side of the road because you [...]

Housetruck evictee – A call to action! Dont stand up for the system – day of action on October 1st

Youths terrorise elderly couple in campervan attack Stuff… Dunedin police say they are closing in on a group of youths who terrorised an elderly couple in a campervan during the weekend. The couple, believed to be in their 70s, were asleep at Warrington Domain, north of Dunedin, early on Saturday morning when a group of [...]

 The Greymouth Star – House buses circumvent bylaw House buses are getting around Grey District Council rules aimed at preventing makeshift camps by moving from one site to another — and then back again. Last year, a new campervan effluent dump station by the Cobden Bridge became overcrowded as house-bus owners on their way to [...]

Ellis in Wellyland: Stout Street Squatter Jennifer Graham became well-known in Wellington for parking her house truck and Morris Minor on Stout Street for several months accumulating thousands of dollars in fines. The Wellington City council already have taken her housetruck because of unpaid parking fines, now they are trying to force her to move [...]

DAVE BURGESS – The Dominion Post | Friday, 30 January 2009 A woman is living on the street after her illegally parked housetruck was seized by Wellington City Council. Jennifer Graham has lived in her truck in the same central Wellington parking space in Stout St since September even getting mail delivered there. About $5000 of [...]

By MATT CALMAN – The Dominion Post | Wednesday, 26 November 2008 A woman who refuses to pay parking fines risks losing the roof above her head as Wellington City Council considers impounding her house truck. Jennifer Graham has lived in the truck in the same central Wellington parking space for 11 weeks, racking up [...]

Allen and Donna Russell wouldn’t call themselves gypsies but they certainly like life on the road. For over a decade they’ve lived in a house bus, loving a life where they can pick up and move whenever they want. Just over a year ago they moved onto their own property in rural Rotorua but last [...]