Used Car Yard On Main South Road Opposed

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31658, 19 April 1968, Page 14

Used Car Yard On Main South Road Opposed

The Regional Planning Authority would oppose an application for a used car sales yard on the Main South Road because of the anticipated increase in traffic volume, the planning officer (Mr K. Tyler) told the Paparua County Council yesterday. lan Anthony Hiatt applied to the council for a specified departure from the district scheme to authorise a used car yard at 83 Main South Road. The land is zoned light industrial and would require to be rezoned commercial. Mr Tyler said traffic on the Main South Road had reached 6250 vehicles a day in 1966 and would be 10,000 vehicles a day in 1980. ( He said a used car business would detract from the standard of service on the road and tend to promote undesirable ribbon development. It would generate more traffic movements and increase the stopping and parking of cars. Mr Hiatt said he had bought the property in 1967 as a place to store goods as a manufacturing representative. Recently he had been using the premises as a used

car yard because the turnover in the main line of his business had started to fall alarmingly. He said it was in the public interest that the car yard be approved because with the shortage of new cars there was a greater demand for second-hand cars. The effects of a departure from the scheme would have little significance apart from the surrounding property. The council has reserved its decision.