Avon precinct zoning alteration

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33001, 22 August 1972, Page 18

Avon precinct zoning alteration

The City Council last evening resolved to make the zone on the western boundaries of the central business area (broadly speaking, west of Montreal Street) a residential 5A zone.

The council will introduce the change immediately the district review planning scheme comes into effect on August 31. The zone statement, tabled at the council meeting, states that in parts of the zone institutional, educational and cultural buildings are closely associated with large, well-developed residential properties and some high-rise flats.

“It is not only desirable that the present character be preserved but that the buildings which have reached the end of their economic life be redevolepd in a way that adds to the cultural atmosphere, and also increases the population density. “The present net density approaches 35 persons an acre west of the river, and it is undesirable that density should drop because there are advantages in having a residential population close to the central business district and adjacent to Hagley Park. “In order to ensure that the cultural and residential area of this special area are

retained and extended, predominant uses are limited to those of a residential, cultural, institutional or educational nature. ‘Places of assembly’ have been made conditional. “The special amenity setback shown on the Park Terrace, Rolleston Avenue, and part of the Cambridge Terrace and Cranmer Square frontages is designed to create generous open areas opposite the respective portions of public open space, which can be landscaped in a manner to complement the public amenity areas.” The residential zone excludes the blocks between Cashel, Hereford, Worcester and Gloucester Streets,

bounded by the Avon River and Montreal Street, where the new Central Police Station is being built and where it is proposed to site the new postal centre. The blocks are zoned commercial 3, and include the King Edward Barer Clark said that all owners of properties in the area zoned RSA would be notified by registered post of the council’s intention to introduce the change. Ordinances to cover buildings to be erected in the zone are set out. The zone includes the site of the Arlington Motor Inn, off Park Terrace, which is partly built but has not been added to since February of this year.