Land changes upset authority

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34021, 10 December 1975, Page 20

Land changes upset authority

The Canterbury Regional Planning Authority is unhappy with variations between the Paparua and Waimairi Counties’ rules on building around the airport.

The authority decided at a meeting yesterday to object to town-planning changes proposed by both councils for land near the airport.

There should be more uniformity in the permitted usesj in rural zones, and in the air- j port protection zone controls! proposed in the changes, said! a report to the authority. “In principle, the concept' of a zone prohibiting sub-; 1 division and the building of! houses on land' likely to be' subject to very high noise levels, with another zone surrounding it in which only essential houses and subdivision is permitted, is sound,” said a report to the authority. “The question of the extent and nature of the zopes is debatable. While the Paparua change proposes the 90 decibels noise contour as the outer limit of its special zones, the Waimairi change uses the 85db line. “There are differences between the two in that while 'some houses would be per'mitted in Paparua as pre-; ; dominant, none would be .allowed in Waimairi.” The report also said that the Paparua proposal went some way to protecting the airport by curtailing the number of houses that might I otherwise have been built, but

had counteracted this by allowing houses to be built on all existing lots. Although the chairman (Mr D. B. Rich) said that the question would, undoubtedly, have to be settled by the Town and Country Planning Appeal Board, the authority decided to try to get a reduction in Waimairi’s proposed conditional uses, and to oppose the Paparua scheme, in an attempt to bring about more uniformity.