Change Unlikely On Stopping Ban

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31880, 7 January 1969, Page 12

Change Unlikely On Stopping Ban

It is unlikely the Waimairi County Council will reconsider its decision to ban the stopping of vehicles outside the shops at the corner of Fendalton Road, Memorial Avenue and Clyde Road.

I Yesterday the county ! chairman (Mr D. B. Rich) was asked if the council might modify the ban—which will come into force on February I—until the new supermarket and shopping block is built at 19-23 Memorial Avenue.

i “The council’s decision was reached solely on traffic grounds,” said Mr Rich. “The volume of traffic has been building up on the comer, and the parking of vehicles outside the shops has created difficulties, especially at peak times.

“The council felt it was an appropriate time to introduce the no-stopping rule, and was not influenced by the outcome of the Memorial Avenue I supermarket application.” Shopkeepers think the no- ; stopping rule will cut sharply i into their trading, as there is only a small privately-owned off-street parking block to serve all the shops. There is a move afoot to ask the council to defer nostopping until the supermarket, which will provide eventually up to 120 parking places, is in operation. The W. J. Turner family partnership, by a decision of the Town and Country Planning Appeal Board on December 13, is allowed to build an 8000 sq. ft supermarket and 10 shops in Memorial Avenue.

Speaking for the partnership, Mr J. T. Turner said yesterday discussions would be held soon between his

planning adviser (Miss N. Northcroft) and the council's town-planning officer (Mr R M. Parker) to settle details of the buildings and their layout.

He had already been asked by concerns not now represented in the Fendalton shops for space in the mall. Mr Turner said he would discuss tenancies with the existing shopkeepers and hoped to have a balanced, representative group of tenants before tenders were called.

He could not say how long the preliminary discussions would take, but an architect was ready to start on the working drawings. From the start of construction, it would take about six months to complete the buildings.