NEW ART GALLERY IN CITY

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23002, 23 April 1940, Page 8

NEW ART GALLERY IN CITY

❖ COUNCIL AND DEPARTMENT COMPROMISE A compromise in the dispute over the proposed new art gallery to be erected in the city in Durham street has been reached by the Christchurch City Council and the Justice Department. The department intends to build the gallery to replace the one now on the site of the land needed for the new Supreme Court building. The council objected to the plans of the new gallery, in that they did not conform to the city’s town planning scheme, and at its last meeting decided to confer again with the In-, ternal Affairs Department (the department in control of town planning) over the attitude of the Justice Department. Last evening, the council received a letter from the Internal Affairs Department, which suggested a compromise. The council approved of the basis of this compromise and thus of the erection of the gallery. The town planning committee of the council recommended that the plans be approved for, the gallery, subject to it being 15 feet from the street line and five feet from the western boundary. The building (the committee stipulated) must be right up to the eastern boundary. Previously it had been planned by the department to tfuild up to the western boundary. It was also decided by the council, on the recommendation of the committee, that the coverage requirements for the new building be waived.