Another appeal to move station

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33960, 29 September 1975, Page 12

Another appeal to move station

The proprietor of the New Brighton Service Station applied again to the Town and Country Planning Appeal Board for permission to move the station to the corner of Hawke and Howe Streets.

Richard James Glassey, the managing director of the company owning the service station, told the board an earlier application for a specified departure from the district scheme to enable the move had been declined.

Mr Glassey (represented by Mr P. L. Matlock) said the matter needed resolving because Seaview Road, on which the present service station fronted, would soon become a shopping mall. Vehicles would be prevented from, entering the area and this would affect his business.

His present application is a further appeal to the board to permit the specified departure. It is opposed by the Christchurch City Council (Mr D. M. Palmer) which requires the company to move its premises to a site on the south side of Hawke Street backing on to Seaview Road.

Mr Glassey said that the Shell Oil Company owned the premises adjoining his and it had been intended to extend the service station on this.

But half of the frontage of th* Shell company’s pro*

perty would be affected by the pededstrian mall proposal. Some years ago Mr Glassey’s company had bought property in Hawke Street backing on to the Shell company’s property as the future site of his service station.

He said Fletcher Developments was interested in buying that land so long as it could also secure the Shell company’s Seaview Road frontage along with Mr Glassey’s present service station site.

Fletchers, he said, had gone a long way towards completing plans for a development on the present service station site, the adjoining site and Mr Glassey’s Hawke Street site. The City Council opposes the company’s application on the ground that the proposed new site for the service station is residential and an alternative site is available within the commercial and car parking zone at New Brighton. The board — Mr W. J. Treadwell, S.M., chairman, and Messrs R. J. Calvert, G. R. Broker and H. N. Besley —reserved its decision.