Hillside control
Hillside slips from uncontrolled excavations have prodded the Christchurch City Council’s town-planning committee to call for a landexcavation by-law.
Committee members were told yesterday that many banks being cut into hillside sections were a risk to property and life, especially when it rained. The major land-slip risk came from machine excavation of cuts and embankments. Such excavation should be controlled, committee members said. A draft by-law proposed by the committee says that the use of a machine to raise or lower the existing level of a site by more than one metre would be permitted only with written approval of the City Engineer. Many excavations would also require building permits. Alteration of site levels would not be permitted when the work would be liable to remove the land support on an adjoining site, or endanger buildings on other sites.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33941, 6 September 1975, Page 16
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141Hillside control Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33941, 6 September 1975, Page 16
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