Conditional Consent To Urlwins’ Application

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30930, 10 December 1965, Page 18

Conditional Consent To Urlwins’ Application

The Town and Country Planning Appeals Board yesterday granted Urlwins Industries, Ltd., authority to use land zoned residential for industrial purposes.

The board’s consent was conditional upon the company’s adhering to 13 provisos laid down by the Christchurch City Council, which had opposed the application.

Counsel for the City Council (Mr W. R. Lascelles) said the council's town planning committee bad recommended that the boon! be advised of the council's continued opposition to the application. However, at a meeting held after the appeal board hearing on November 18 and attended by representatives of the parties concerned, 13 conditions had been agreed upon and later confirmed by the company.

They were: That the site fronting Hume street be landscaped and screened by planting and/or fencing or other means in a manner appropriate to the location in accordance with a plan produced at the hearing by Miss Nancy Northcroft and maintained to the satisfaction of the council's director of reserves, to whom a detailed programme of laying-out and

planting ahaß bo produced before any building shall be commenced. That provision be made on the site for off-street perking, loading spaces and ingress and egress facilities to the satisfaction of the city engineer. That no objectionable elements be created or permitted to exist, particularly by way of smoke, smell, noise, or duet That full protection be given by means adequate to safeguard residents in the locality from objectionable elements associated

with shift working particularly night noise. That adequate fire protection be provided in compliance with the law, including such fire fighting and preventive appliances and facilities as may be required by the chief fire officer.

That the buildings, the subject of the application, be used only for the purposes specified—cafeteria, inward goods store. That the site surrounding the premises in the application shall at all times be kept dear and free of all wastes, packages and materials.

That the car park area, driveways and footpaths be seeled or otherwise surfaced to prevent nuisance by dust to the satisfaction of the city council engineer. That before any attempt is made to construct any building on the land zoned residential, the existing sheds must be completely demoMied and removed. That the staff amenities block shall not contain any appliance or equipment for any other use except food handling or of a recreational nature, and that buildings shall have floor coverings of a type to produce tiie minimum of noise. That the inward goods store shall not contain any manufacturing machine but a goods hoist of a type to be approved by the eity engineer. This buUding shall have flooring of a type to give the maximum security against noise. That the buildings to be

erected on the residential land shall be designed so as not to be unduly conflicting with the residential character of the locality and in particular shall not display any advertising. That the vehicle exits shall have appropriate signs requiring drivers of vehicles to stop before proceeding out into the street. A letter from Urlwins, Ltd., to its solicitor (Mr J, R. Woodward) handed to the board, said that the company had no plans whatsoever for any development of the residential land fronting on to Hume street other than those which had already been the subject of an application for a specified departure. Mr Woodward said that the company had agreed to dedicate land fronting Austin street to the city for the purposes of street widening.