You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. Queenstown has strict rules on where brothels can operate, with the legal area limited to a small portion of the CBD.
Council staff determined a brothel was indeed operating at the Huff St property and ordered it be shut down. Immigration NZ confirms it responded to an anonymous tip, visited the property and served two foreign nationals with deportation notices.
She says that restriction, alongside the tough bylaw, can make migrant sex workers reluctant to seek support if they have issues or become victims of crime. Back in , council staff investigated reports of an illegal brothel operating on Melbourne St.
But the Huff St resident says he believes an escort service may once again be running from the Huff St building. As of this week, there are four women based in Queenstown offering escort services on the website. He says INZ officials visited the unit occupied by the women late last year, and then the women left soon after.
Compliance assistant general manager Peter Devoy says migrants who are not NZ perman-ent residents are not permitted to work in the industry. Both were served deportation liability notices. Skip to main content. Friday, 18 January Two migrant sex workers have been deported after an illegal Queenstown brothel was closed down. In that instance, they investigated but found it was operating legally. He believes they were advertising on a popular escort website.
