100-acre limit imposed

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33479, 9 March 1974, Page 3

100-acre limit imposed

The Kangiora County Council has decided to increase its minimum subdivisional standard from 50 acres to 100 acres, as has the Oxford County Council.

At a meeting yesterday, Cri T. W. Inch suggested the al-j teration to the minimum | standard, and also an increase in the frontage requirement to 660 feet. The County Chairman (Mr D. Ensor) said that when the 50-acre standard was imposed it was thought to be large enough. “But it wasn’t long before we were receiving “subdivisions of this nature, and it proved it was too small.” “Only a month ago,” Cr Inch said, “we received a directive from the Ministry of Works asking us to safeguard agriculturally productive and potentially productive land. We’ve been at-l tempting to do this in the| past, but we’ve been vuiner-

■■able, to say the least.” .! The chairman agreed that 100 acres would be adequate in the main. “We have been ! talking about Ashburton, ; which has accepted a 500acre standard, but this is a ' thoroughly different proposis tion for a different county.” The meeting received a cir- ; cular from the Oxford County . Council, which recently increased its standards from 10 : acres to 1,00 acres. ; The chairman suggested that the Rangiora County’s undisclosed planning scheme i was not at such an advanced r stage as Oxford’s, and it • would be better to leave any,l . change for some time. Cr Inch said it would surely: -ibe more .convenient to ad-i ■ljust the scheme at 'the draft] ■ I stage, i