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Unsewered Sub-divisions

Sir,—The leading article on unsewered housing should bring the Christchurch City Council up with a sharp jolt to the lack of foresight of the town-planning committee. Instead of reclaiming the older areas close to Cathedral square, industry has been permitted ■ in Fitzgerald avenue, Albert street, and Tuam street, where sewer connexions are wasted. Ten thousand people have left the centre of Christchurch. Why? Because there prior right to peaceful home surroundings was destroyed through infiltration of noxious industry. The answer to this problem is the zoning of industry and an industrial estate outside the city area which could provide its own sewerage plant. Land unsuitable for farming would provide an industrial estate, far cheaper than the inflationary prices asked in the decaying areas of our city. How many houses, good home gardens and sewer connexions have gone for the sprawl of timber yards and the like? —Yours, etc., R. WOODHOUSE. August 16, 1959.

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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28976, 18 August 1959, Page 7

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Unsewered Sub-divisions Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28976, 18 August 1959, Page 7

Unsewered Sub-divisions Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28976, 18 August 1959, Page 7

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