BUILDING CODE

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24206, 14 March 1944, Page 4

BUILDING CODE

STANDARD ADOPTED BY COUNCIL

OVERCROWDING PROVISION RETROSPECTIVE

Endorsing the recommendations of the town planning committee, the bylaws and finance committee of the Christchurch City Council recommended to the council last evening the adoption of-Part VIII of the New Zealand Standard Code of Building Bylaws (Residential Buildings) as a bylaw subject to two minor amendments. Summaries of the section of the code have already been printed in “The The city by-law No. 15 and the town planning scheme require the minimum window area to be one-eighth of the floor space of a room instead of onetenth as required in the standard code. The town planning scheme makes the minimum dimensions of courts sft for side yards in the case of a private dwelling and one'third of the height for other buildings, and the provision of an access way for a car, so making the minimum side yard on one side nofless than 7ft. The committee recommended that these provisions be adhered to. , , Cr. W. P. Glue, chairman of the housing and town planning committee, said that clause 829 of the code was important and very far reaching. It made retrospective those provisions of the code dealing with the prevention of overcrowding of rooms. The by-law, therefore, would apply to every room used as a sleeping room whether erected or used as a sleeping room before the coming into force of the bylaw or not. The recommendations were adopted.