Photo: Rotorua Daily Post / Mathew Nash
A neighbour of a live-in parolee rehabilitation facility in Rotorua says she feels so unsafe in her generational family home that she avoids spending time there.
The PΕ«whakamua programme, which supports paroled ex-prisoners reintegrating into the community, breached its agreement with the Department of Corrections "multiple" times last year and has struggled to find a future location.
Now it is heading for an Environment Court date with Rotorua Lakes Council over its current Owhata site.
PΕ«whakamua is operated by the Tikanga Aroro Charitable Trust and has been based at the end of a bumpy dirt track off Te Ngae Rd since 2018 and under contract to Corrections since November 2022.
The council served the trust an abatement notice in March after an in
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