SUB-STANDARD HOUSING
Sir,—I 1 noted With interest your illustrated page showing sub-standard houses within: ,10 minutes of the Square. Certainly such conditions should not exist in a city like Christchurch, but why pave the way for the same conditions by allowing speculators in flats to do the same thing today? At the present time, a speculator has been permitted to build flats in a main -thoroughfare within 10 minutes’ walk north of the Square in a definitely residential area, hard up against a valuable dwelling, rated at £I4OO, and blocking the sunlight from another residence. Has someone in authority shut his eyes in this case, and, if so, why? If the authorities are honestly trying to improve pur fair city, why were these buildings permitted to be erected?— Yours, etc., ■ B. CONSISTENT. August 6, 1941.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23401, 7 August 1941, Page 10
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