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“No Right Of Refusal”
The council had no legal right of refusal, said Mr D. E. Ames, counsel for Whittle, Knight and Boatwood (Estate Agents), Ltd, who asked a town-planning sub-committee of the Waimairi County Council on Wednesday for petmission to make alterations to a building occupied by the firm at the comer of Riccarton and Clyde Roads.
Mr H. L. R. Whittle, a director of the firm, said that to improve working conditions, it was proposed to partition the interior, tar-seal the yard to give parking for staff and clients, stucco the exterior, move the entrance and landscape the grounds. Mr Ames said that the only ground on which the council could refuse permission was that the work was substantial. Stuccoing would not extend the life of the building, nor would the partitions extend its life. There were no other objectors save the council, which had brought the application on its own head by taking 20 months to change the original ’ commercial A zoning to residential A. Those who took up properties in that period should not be penalised. The work proposed would in no way extend the period of non-conforming use of the land.
Decision was reserved for a recommendation to the council.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32049, 25 July 1969, Page 9
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