High-rise block

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33521, 30 April 1974, Page 12

High-rise block

Sir,—This Government purport s to protect the average

I man in his suburban castle. In effect, he cannot afford to rest on any one of those 32 perches. Threats to this environment in the form of scree gardens and countless pink ownership flats can be coped with as part of daily living but the real threat lies in the politics of road widening, property developers and real estate speculators. The Sumner village now has a new threat, the environmentalist turned property develjoper. A city architect is planning a seven-storey high-rise apartment block on the Sumner Esplanade. The rationale appears to be that if it is not done by someone with taste it will be done by someone without any. The man on the quarter acre has no choice but to pile his perches one on top of another and watch himself being done in the eye.—Yours etc.. LYNNE ALEXANDER. April 29, 1974. [The associate Town Clerk (Mr M. W. Atkinson) replies: “No building permit application for such a project, nor any inquiry, has been received. The area is zoned R 3, and a building of such a height would require a very large area of land.” J