Salisbury Street Tourist Hotel

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31016, 23 March 1966, Page 8

Salisbury Street Tourist Hotel

Approval for a tourist hotel embodying a public restaurant and conference rooms to be built on Salisbury street between Colombo street and Gracefield avenue was given in a Town and Country Planning Appeal Board decision issued yesterday.

“No sworn evidence was submitted for the objectors and, after hearing evidence given for the applicant and the Christchurch City Council, the board has no hesitation in holding that the erection of the proposed tourist hotel will be in the public interest.” the decision states. The application was made in the name of R. G. Compton and others and was for a specified departure from the residential B zoning of the area. The city council supported the appeal, which was apposed by local residents. The board granted permission to build to a maximum height of 120 ft. All buildings ■are to be sited not less than 15ft from Salisbury street, and shops on the frontage must not have direct access from- the street.

Off-street parking for 61 vehicles is to be provided, and the council has the right to require the provision of more room for up to 100 vehicles. Traffic entries and exits must be to the council’s satisfaction. Landscaping and planting of the property must also be to the council’s approval “to safeguard the amenities of the locality.” Declined “With regret” the board declined an application by R. T. Russell to add to his motor engineer’s workshop at 72 Brittan street. The board, expressing sympathy with Mr Russell, said that his application, opposed by a neighbour, could not be approved as motor engineering was neither a predominant nor a conditiona] use in a residential A zone.

The existing workshop was of wood construction, and in order to comply with firefighting requirements, the addition would need to be in permanent materials, thus resulting in a considerable prolongation of a permitted existing but non-conforming use. The Jamah Timber Com-

pany was allowed a specified departure to allow storage of timber at 72 and 74 Harman street and 15, 17 and 19 Cotterill street. No buildings are allowed, and the use of the properties for industrial purposes is restricted to a period of five years. The company is required to landscape the frontages and keep the land tidy to the satisfaction of the city council. An appeal by Paramount Land Development Company against a Waimairi County Council requirement setting aside a section in a Prestons road subdivision for future reading was disallowed as, the board found, provision for a road was desirable.

The company was required to enter into an approved bond for the cost of road formation when adjoining land is subdivided.