PLANNING ACT
Complaint On Provisions (N.Z. Press Association) N. PLYMOUTH, April 17. The objection provisions of the Town and Country Planning Act as they were at present constituted were a menace to progress, a Dunedin delegate, Mr S. C. Scott, told the annual conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce at New Plymouth. New Zealand was a rapidly growing country, Mr Scott said, in proposing the remit: "That this conference requests the Government to reconsider the objection and appeal provisions of the Town and Country Planning Act with a view to enabling particular districts to make their own decisions and have them become effective.” A resolution amending the remit so that the matter would be referred to the executive for investigation was later approved by the meeting.
In 38 years New Zealand’s present population would have doubled and it was therefore submitted that all matters pertaining to the development and growth of communities and their facilities had to be flexible, said Mr Scott.
“Any planning scheme that is not capable of reasonably easy alteration in proper cases could be a real menace to progress,” he said.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29801, 18 April 1962, Page 21
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