Fish-Meal Factory Control Approved

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32143, 12 November 1969, Page 19

Fish-Meal Factory Control Approved

Among the objections to the proposed Lyttelton District Scheme yhich were allowed by the Lyttelton Borough Council in reserved decisions on Monday evening, were two seeking control of the proposed fish-meal factory on Naval Point

Fifty-four. Lyttelton residents and the Canterbury Yacht and Motor Boat Club had objected at a hearing four months ago to the zoning of the Naval Point property as Industrial C, which would have allowed P. Feron and Son, Ltd, to build the factory without the specification of controlling conditions. The Town and Country Planning Appeal Board had earlier allowed the use of the site for the proposed factory subject to stringent conditions, and the residents had sought to have the conditions brought down on the plan of the district scheme and not left verbally. The council decided last evening to include “fish-meal factories” to those industries listed in Appendix I of their code of ordinances. This does not prohibit the company from building the factory, but gives the council the right to set conditions controlling smells, noise, dust, flies, the discharge of harmful

effluent and the appearance and-, siting of the factory buildings. Two other objections to the zoning of the western end of the reclamation area to the east of Magazine Bay, one by the Banks Peninsula Cruising Club and the other by the Canterbury Yatcht and Motor Boat Club were also allowed. The elubs had objected on the grounds that the Magazine Bay area was the only area in Lyttelton Harbour suitable for future development of yacht and small craft moorings, and that an Industrial C zoning would prevent development and be detrimental to the amenities of the neighbourhood, in particular a proposed yachting marina. The council decided to amend the zoning to one of “Community Use Privately Owned,” applicable to a strip of land 150 ft from the foreshore stretching from the land leased by the yacht and motor boat club to the site of the proposed fish-meal factory.

Holo-ln-On*.—Mrs H. Chisholm holed in one using a 5-iron on the 145-yard seventh hole at the Windsor goif course last week.