Airport land warning urged
1 The Waimairi County ; Council had a duty to warn people thinking of buying sections near Christchurch : Airport that they would be i I affected by noise, said Cr I.!i G. Clark, at a meeting of the ; j council last evening. He said the council’ warned buyers of sections (that had been extensively! filled that they risked foundation collapses, yet the council did not warn those buying! sections near the airport off 'the growing noise, especially! that from night testing of jet engines. Cr H. M. Tait said that' pilots using the short north-: I west runway had their con-1 fidence destroyed by houses: ■underneath them as they: (came in to land. i Other councillors criticised' (the Town and Country Plan-! mng Appeal Board for l : allowing land round Ansonbyi Street and Cutts Road to be' .used for housing. <
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33774, 21 February 1975, Page 14
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