Plan to beautify streets
Properties on streets with narrow footpaths may soon be able to have their frontages landscaped and planted by the Christchurch City Council as part of a street beautification plan. The council’s public utilities committee yesterdayadopted recommendations from a sub-committee, appointed last April, to study ways of beautifying streets with footpaths too narrow for tree planting. The sub-committee recommended that in streets with footpaths under 12ft wide, an over-all landscape plan be prepared for all property frontages if requested by the residents.
Any such plan should incorporate tree planting within Bft of the legal road boundary. For footpaths between 12ft and 15ft wide, it was recommended that the council plant shrubs with nonaggressive root systems, 3ft from the kerbline, provided this would not damage underground service cables.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33965, 4 October 1975, Page 16
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