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Oil Company Intends To Build Garage

Another large garage-service station may be built in Rangiora in the near future.

Mobil Oil (New Zealand) Ltd., has applied to the Rangiora Borough Council for a change of use of an area of land and has given public notice of its intention.

The company wants to build a "motor service centre” on three sections in the Walker subdivision on John street. The three sections are on the north side of John street at its intersection with Percival street (formerly known as Victoria street). The borough council has "spot zoned” an area of seven sections in this locality as Commercial A in its undisclosed district planning scheme. The motor service centre would require a change to conditional use in a commercial zone. The Town Clerk (Mr R. Ward) said yesterday that the council had zoned the area commercial because it had been planned that a shopping area would be developed there. None of the seven sections has yet been built on.

The three sections for the proposed premises were owned by G.U.S. Holdings, Ltd., said Mr Ward, who considered the oil company would have an option to buy the land if the change of use was consented to. The land surrounding the commercial sections was zoned residential.

A preliminary plot plan of the proposed premises features a service area of 784 square feet, a lubrication bay of 392 square feet, a storeroom, a sales room, and staff quarters in the centre of the section. The fuel pumps are set back 20 feet from the eastern boundary. A large parking area extends along the 150 ft length of the western boundary. There are two entrances from Percival street and one from John street A low wall surrounds the site, with a gar-

den plot at the corner of Percival and John streets.

The application for the change of use is available for examination at the Rangiora Borough Council offices. Any person or organisation affected may object in writing to the council before June 28.

Borough residents in the vicinity of the proposed service centre had been sent letters by the oil company, said Mr Ward. As well as objections from individuals, be expected objections from other oil companies and the Ministry of Works, which wants Percival street kept clear as a feeder route for the northern motorway.

The oil company has no garage or service station dispensing its products in Rangiora at present It is possibly the only major oil company which does not have a depot in the

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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31383, 31 May 1967, Page 16

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Oil Company Intends To Build Garage Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31383, 31 May 1967, Page 16

Oil Company Intends To Build Garage Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31383, 31 May 1967, Page 16