Council Not In Favour Of Service Station

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30560, 1 October 1964, Page 18

Council Not In Favour Of Service Station

Sitting as a special committee under section 35 of the Town and Country Planning Act, the Riccarton Borough Council last evening heard five objections to a proposal for the establishment of a service station and garage on the corner of Riccarton road and Harakeke street.

Although the application is to be heard by the Town and Country Planning Appeal Board, the act requires the council to hear objections and other evidence and give a ruling on whether it supports the proposal. After a discussion in committee, the Mayor (Mr E. J. Bradshaw) announced that the council had declined to support it. This decision will now be forwarded to the board. The application—for a specified departure from the council’s district planning scheme—is being made by the Perpetual Trustees Estate and Agency Company of New Zealand, Ltd., and John Oliver Cochrane. Mr J. R. Woodward appeared for the applicants, and Mr E. I. White legal adviser to the ctrancil. About 20 persons attended the hearing. The objectors were the

Christchurch Regional Planning Authority, Mr C. L. Gladstone, Mrs I. Burt, Mrs L. Poole, and Mr and Mrs R. E. J. Goulden, who live near the site. Decision Deferred A proposal by the Riccarton Players Inc. to erect a club room, rehearsal, and storage building on land at the rear of the RiccartonFendalton R.S.A. building at 218 Riccarton road was opposed by five nearby residents. The council, after hearing evidence, deferred its decision. The vice-president of the drama group (Mr P. D. Rutledge) said that his committee had bought from the Army a second-hand building which the committee wished to have erected on R.S.A. land at the rear of its existing clubrooms. The objectors—Mr A. G. Long, Mrs R. A. Hayman. Miss L. B. Courtis, and Mr and Mrs R. O. Berryman—all expressed concern that the building would be too near their properties. They objected on the grounds that the proposed building would not conform to the borough’s building requirements, and that there would be considerable noise’.'