AUTHORITY’S DENIAL

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32778, 1 December 1971, Page 22

AUTHORITY’S DENIAL

Carlton Mill scheme

A plan that was published at the time of the municipal elections and purported to show the City Council’s policy for the vicinity of the Carlton Mill bridge remained “a bit of a mystery” to Mr R. M. Macfarlane, after he had raised the question at a meeting of the Christchurch Regional Planning Authority yesterday. Mr Macfarlane said that the plan was alleged to have originated with the City Council, but he was assured that it had not been prepared by the council’s officers. Was the authority in any way connected with it? “No officer of this authority was responsible,” said the Director of Planning (Mr C. B. Millar). “Thanks very much. It’s a bit of a mystery,” said Mr Macfarlane. Mr Macfarlane also took issue with Commander H. J. A. Lynch, who, in declining to continue to be a member (he was chairman) of the authority’s air-pollution committee, said he was out of sympathy with the policy of the City Council. One way to reduce pollution was to cut down bn traffic and traffic hold-ups, yet more and more traffic signals were causing traffic hold-ups. “The City Council might have other ideas about the chaos that would result If it cut down on traffic lights,” said Mr Macfarlane.