SHOPPING AT SOCKBURN

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29112, 26 January 1960, Page 8

SHOPPING AT SOCKBURN

Development Of New Centre

A 12-acre housing and commercial development fronting the Main South road will be put in hand in the next few weeks.

Hie subdivision, which is opposite the Paparua County offices and whose south-west boundary abuts Epsom road, will have its own postal, banking and theatra facilities.

Shopping sites and the post office site have been set back from the road frontage to allow room for off-street parking. Three new streets are in the proposed development.

The first move will be preparation of the six chain frontage for seven lots that could carry nine shops. A contract for this work is expected to be let in the next two weeks. Also in the contract will be a service lane behind the shops, parking areas and stormwater drainage. A depression running approximately east-west across the subdivision is to be filled to make the area level and a diversion drain Will be constructed along the north-east boundary to the main road. Space For Cars The shops are to be set 58ft back from the present road edge. The space, protected by a berm from the road, will provide two banks of spaces for 24 motorvehicles parked diagonally, and

for two sets of bicycle stands. A quarter-acre site has been reserved for postal use. This is on a lot on the city side of a proposed new road separated from the shopping centre. It is understood that the Post Office is in the process of acquir-

ing the site but has not yet taken possession of it. The area behind the postal site has been reserved for banking and cinema development. The grazing land behind the shop sites has been surveyed into sections to take 37 houses.

Mr J. Wilson is the subdivider.