Paparua County Town Planning Hearings Personal Item

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32361, 29 July 1970, Page 18

Paparua County Town Planning Hearings

Personal Item

Hearings may begin in about a fortnight of submissions for and against the first of a series of proposed variations in the Paparua County Council’s district planning scheme. Thirty-five objections were lodged with the council against the proposals, and counter-objections to them closed on Monday. Only one was received, a blanket counter-objection by the Christchurch Regional Planning Authority to 33 of the 35 original objections. Twenty-six of the original objections want the council to retain existing .subdivisions! standards instead of changing to a minimum of 20 acres in a rural zone. In

Mrs B. A. Carter and Messrs F. B. Ford, E. J. Gallagher, B. C. Gard’ner, G. Lancaster jnr, B. M. McDrury, W. A. Paston, and S. Quirk have been appointed members of the Lincoln Park Domain Board.

every case, a counter-objec-tion has been lodged by the regional authority. The council is now collating the objections and counter-objections, and it is likely that the hearings will be grouped, so that similar objections are heard together. On August 3 and 10 the council will advertise another set of variations, to which objections will close on September 21 and in turn be open to cross-objections. It would probably be December before these submissions can be heard. Later still, variations to the Halswell section of the Paparua scheme will be advertised, and go through the same procedure.

A complication in the involved procedure for notifying those who have the right to object is that 50 of the county’s landowners do not pay the rates on their properties, the ratepayers being the occupier in each ease. As the owner is the only legal objector, the council has had to discover owners’ addresses.