CITY ZONING SCHEME

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28984, 27 August 1959, Page 14

CITY ZONING SCHEME

Objections By Organisations

The City Council will probably extend to September 4 the date by which it will receive objections to its district planning scheme prepared under the Town and Country Planning Act, but the objections it will receive up to then will be from members of the Canterbury Manufacturers' Association and the Christchurch Chamber of Commerce.

When objections closed last month, and the council had received about 450 objections to its scheme, two “blanket” objections were included from the organisations ‘‘to protect the interests of members.”

The right of the two organisations, first to object at all and second to object on grounds other than “the public interest," could be a subject for legal argument: but the council is likely to take the view of its town planning committee that it should receive objections from members of the organisations, but only under the ‘‘blanket’’ objections. Meanwhile, the town planning officer (Mr J. C. Foster) is engaged in summarising the objections and grouping them so they can be advertised with a call for objections to the objections. Only then can the council, through a committee, begin the hearing of all the objections. With the inevitable preoccupation of councillors with the elections in November, the reorganisation of committees necessary after the elections in November, the reorganisation of committees necessary after election and the Christmas holidays, it will probably be next year before any objections are heard.