APPLICATION FOR HOARDING

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21147, 24 April 1934, Page 10

APPLICATION FOR HOARDING

WAIMAIRI COUNCIL'S REFUSAL

MOVE TO RESCIND MOTION

Notice of motion was given at a meeting of the Waimairi County Council last evening to rescind the previous resolution of the council, in which the application by an advertising company for permission to erect a hoarding on the North road was refused. The decision to refuse the application was made at the last meeting of the council, but a letter was before the council from the applicants last evening, and there was a short discussion on whether the acouncil could again open the matter by having the letter read. This developed into another discussion on hoardings generally. In the end the council accepted the notice of motion, and the letter remained unread. When the discussion opened the chairman (Cr. W. P. Spencer) said that he favoured the practice of asking for written objections to hoardings. Cr. W. G. Chapman: The trouble is that you let hoardings go up without any permission being secured from the council at all. In your own riding there are such hoardings. When the chairman asked for particulars of the hoardings from Cr. Chapman the latter mentioned one near Chaney's. The chairman: The council must have had an application before it for that hoarding. But I know of others, erected by the Government near Chaney's corner, for which permission was not granted. When the point was raised that there was no council by-law making it compulsory for permission to be secured for the erection of a hoarding, the county clerk (Mr G. S. Cowper) referred to a clause in the Town Planning Act governing the matter and affecting the whole country. Cr. W. J. Walter said that he favoured the erection of hoardings in certain areas. He would rather see a clean hoarding than a dirty, weed-covered section. "How can you open the matter, in any case? You have already decided the question of this hoarding." asked a councillor. The chairman: The position is that the company which wanted to erect the hoarding has written a letter to us. We have either to read it or decide not to receive it. I think that in all fairness we ought to read it. Of course, we cannot discuss it, because the application has been refused. "My opinion is that it would be far better to do what the City Council does, and ask for written objections to the hoardings. That would do away with all the canvassing of the district." Cr. F. S. Scott then gave notice of motion that the previous resolution of the council, refusing the application, be rescinded.