STATE HOUSING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 220, 28 June 1943, Page 4

STATE HOUSING.

BIG AUCKLAND SCHEME. (P.A.) AUCKLAND, June 26. A roading plan has been prepared for a great residential development 'covering 3000 acres in the Tamaki district, east of Auckland. Two thousand acres of the area are involved in a State scheme to build 8000 houses and the project is by fai' the most ambitious ever proposed in Auckland. The backbone of tbe whole scheme is the proposed south-east main highway which will be used exclusively as an arterial route, with no building frontages to it, but linking up at three points with roads built to serve the proposed new suburb. ' A comprehensive report on the scheme was presented to the City

Council by the engineer (Mr J. Tyler) for consideration.

A new centre of suburban Auckland is expected to grow at a proposed road junction with the new .arterial highway immediately east of Glen Innes station, and development is planned to link up with this centre.

Mr Tyler said that the Housing Department has asked permission to subdivide the 'area into sections down to the national minimum of 24 perches and 50ft frontages, but the minimum size of sections for the Tamaki district under the council’s zoning scheme was 32 perches with 50ft frontages.

Besides road and street development drainage and other services must be provided as a part of the big scheme. The project lias been prepared as a result of consultation between the Department of Housing Construction, tlie City Council, and the Ways and Means Committee of the Auckland Metropolitan Co-ordinating Town-planning Scheme.