PROGRESS OF HEARINGS

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29227, 10 June 1960, Page 17

PROGRESS OF HEARINGS

Last Sitting On Monday

The hearing of objections and counter objections to the City Council’s zoning provisions under its district planning scheme should end on Monday. The sub-com-mittee of the town planning committee hearing the objections has another sitting today and on Monday there will be a "clean-up” day of objections adjourned earlier because the parties could not appear at the time. About 450 objections and objections to the original objections have been heard by the committee. Many of them fell into groups for the hearing. As well as hearing the cases, members of the sub-committee (Crs. W. P. Glue, chairman, G. A. G. Connal and G. D. Hattaway) have inspected the areas in dispute. The procedure of the hearings is laid down in the Town and Country Planning Act, 1953, under which the committee is forbidden to announce any decision until all the objections have been heard. While decision has been reserved on every case, the committee has made tentative decisions as the hearings have proceeded, to save time once all objectors have been heard. These decisions will form the recommendations of the town planning committee to the full council for confirmation or amendment. Once the council’s decision is made it is final, subject only to appeal to the Town and Country Planning Appeal Board. Although tentative decisions have been reached, they will not be ready for submission to the council for a few weeks as a mass of detailed office work must go into the council report.