Shopping Centre For Ferry Road Planned

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32220, 12 February 1970, Page 8

Shopping Centre For Ferry Road Planned

The I.G.A. grocery store or- [ ganisation planned to build ; a shopping complex of at least 1 : 10,000 square feet on the I - south side of Ferry Road be Jween Catherine and Maronan ' Streets, objectors to the City : Council’s reviewed district | planning scheme said on i ' Tuesday. Three groups all objecting I; to commercial land being, ; rezoned residential were 1 heard by a council commit[tee comprising Cr G. D. Hat- , taway, chairman, and Cr W ; ! V. Cowles. i Mr M. E. Collier (Mr R. C ! (Standage) said he owned three roods 36 perches with, frontages on Ferry Road. -Catherine and Maronan [Streets. He was in business as : a carrier and produce mer > chant. His principal objection to the scheme was that not enough land in the area was zoned commercial ,! Mr Collier said he was ne , gotiating with I.G.A for a . suburban shopping complex , to be built on his land There I was no commercial land avail ■table on the north side of Ferry Road in the area where : the council’s scheme proposed i •tthat shops should be estab ! J fished. The council wanted •; the land on the south side! • [zoned residential but he, ; I found it difficult to believe! .[that people would want to i build homes fronting on to! 1 Ferry Road because the coun , ci) said it would be used by ■ more and more trafficpresent Area Inadequate * Mr H. W Dear, president - [ of the Woolston District Im-' 1 provement Association, said that the present commercial:

area was inadequate for the area’s needs. j Mr B F. Deare, of the Wool[ston Rugby League Club also objected. He said the club had purchased a property on the south side, and had invested $16,000. When the property. containing two shops, 'was bought four years ago it ;was zoned commercial If the zoning were changed to resitdential, the club would be left (with a small section not attractive to a home builder and would lose a lot of ;money. The club still had a [ mortgage of $3OOO on the property Other objectors were Mr I R. A. Clarke, owner of a shop [in the area, Mr C. W. Rus[sell, managing director of C. and I. Russell, Ltd. plumbers, -and Mr K. W. Dowson. of K. Dowson and Sons. Ltd.