ISIS STREET SITE FOR FACTORY

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23647, 26 May 1942, Page 5

ISIS STREET SITE FOR FACTORY

OBJECTION BY FOURTEEN RESIDENTS A decision on: whether permission should be given H. C. Urlwin. Ltd., to build a factory in Isis street, was deferred by the City Council last evening after .it had heard an objection by 14 residents of the locality. An inspection is to be made by the council, Mr C. S. Thomas represented 13 of the objectors. He said the site of the proposed factory was in a residential area under the town planning scheme. He contended that there was no reason of public convenience why the factory should be built there, and he • did not consider that any question of hardship on H. C. Urlwin, Ltd., was involved. Across the Heathcote river was an industrial area in which the factory could be built. Residents who had bought house properties in the belief that the locality was reserved for residential building preferred that the factory should «be built on the other side of the river. He Questioned whether the council had the legal right to decide the question without reference to the Town Planning Board at Wellington. Mr L. W. Gee represented the other objector. The Mayor (Mr E. H. Andrews) said there was the Kaiapoi Woollen Company’s factory in Isis street. When Cr. M. E. Lyons moved that decision be deferred, Cr. H. E. Denton objected. He said that H. C. Urlwin, Ltd.'s first application had been refused; The council had turned the biggest somersault since he had been a member. The Mayor supported deferring a decision because there were legal questions and because he thought the whole question would resolve itself in the meantime.