Hoon Hay Subdivision Provides 570 Sections

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30559, 30 September 1964, Page 1

Hoon Hay Subdivision Provides 570 Sections

An area of 145 acres bounded by Halswell road and Hendersons road is to be opened for housing by the Ministry of Works. The block will be one of the biggest housing subdivisions in Christchurch, providing some 570 sections and a number of multi-unit flats.

Sites have already been set aside for four churches, a kindergarten, primary school, 10-acre recreation, reserve and shops. There will be 17 streets in the block, with a total length of more than three miles.

Sections will be made available to the public when the Ministry of Works existing Armitage block, off Harewood road, is filled and when several points concerning local body services are settled. Three-quarters of the block is in the Halswell county, the remainder being in the Christchurch City Council’s district. The development of the

■ The centrally situated prinit ary school will be on six acres - of land off Rowley avenue. » Land is being held for • Anglican, Presbyterian, Methi odist and Baptist churches. t The present plans provide for a number of multi-unit “ flats with accommodation for a 42 families. These will be near the shopping

block will mean the extension of Rowley avenue through to Hendersons road and Redgrave street through to the proposed new recreation reserve. Both these streets run off Halswell road and are, at present, blind. The reserve will adjoin the Hoon Hay Domain to make a total area of some 25 acres.