STATE HOUSING PROGRAMME

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27632, 13 April 1955, Page 11

STATE HOUSING PROGRAMME

REVIEW OF PROGRESS IN CHRISTCHURCH

BIG HORNBY AREA UNDER DEVELOPMENT

Housing programmes in the Hornby, Dallington, Papanui, and Aranui areas were reviewed yesterday by the District Superintendent of the Housing Division (Mr H. S. Sherbrooke). In Hornby, where there were 600 housing sections, said Mr Sherbrooke, the whole area was now being serviced with sewer, water, roads, kerbs, and channelling. His division had 27 houses under construction, 19 of which were at an advanced stage, and group builders were also working in the area. In the Dallington area, 57 sections on the Donnell block on Mcßratneys road, Queensbury street and Locksley avenue had been handed over to group builders, he said. Some of these houses, he believed, had already been completed. Others were still under construction. On the neighbouring Merry estate block, 24 of the 79 sections had been released to group builders. Contracts for the State houses that would occupy the balance of the block had been advertised. At Aranui, where there was provision for 126 houses, including 24 pensioners’ flats, 87 State houses were under construction, and 34 were nearing completion, said Mr Sherbrooke. Mr Sherbrooke said that on the Tuckers road block, Papanui, where there were 239 housing sections, a start had been made with the development of the area, but so far no contracts had befen let. On the Winters road block, with 118 sections, a start had been made last week with development. “The division’s programme for the Christchurch metropolitan area for the year ending M&rch 31, 1956, envisages the building of 376 State houses,” Mr Sherbrooke said. “In addition, it is planned to build 50 houses in Timaru and 20 in Ashburton.’’