Town Planning
. Sir,—As I went along Cashel street recently I saw the tall concrete wall of a factory right against a house. Surely such is not right in this so called Christian town? In England there is a law preventing. people blocking out the neighbours’ light. A little further along Cashel street a cement factory has built a wall on to its neighbour’s house and outbuildings. The other neighbour’s property is spoilt. What sort
of council have we to treat its citizens so. I expect the householders are widows and elderly and have to pay terrific rates.—Yours, etc., FAIR PLAY.
(The chairman of. the town planning committee of the Christchurch City Council (Cr. G; D. Griffiths) replies: “In New Zealand there are no ‘rights of light’ laws. Under the town-planning scheme commercial and industrial buildings have to set back from boundaries only where they adjoin residential zones, in the cases referred to by the correspondent it appears as though’ the residences referred to are in either, a coinmercial dr industrial zone.”]
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30426, 28 April 1964, Page 12
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