Quarry for houses

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34104, 17 March 1976, Page 22

Quarry for houses

The Isaac Construction Company plans to subdivide into about 22 residential sections a clay quarry opposite the Coca Cola plant on Port Hills Road, Opawa. The managing director of the company (Mr N. Isaac) said yesterday that a subdivision plan for the area had already been lodged with the Heathcote County Council. The plan was prepared by Davie, Lovell-Smith and Partners Mr Isaac said that his company was negotiating to move its clay quarrying operations to Halswell. where theie was a substantial area of land designated for quarrying use. The quarry off Port Hills Road covers about eight acres and a half About six acres and a half of this is already zoned residential The remaining two acres.

along the hillside boundary furthest from the road, is zoned rural. The quarry has been used as such for at least 25 years. Isaac Construction bought the site from Brightlings. which used the clay in a former brickworks nearby. Mr Isaac said that before the subdivision proceeded, the company would continue to quarry into the hillside until rock was reached. He said that if clay was left on the rock, storm-

I water-drainage problems might result. Mr Isaac said that the I company had already started planting trees along the J boundary of the quarry, particularly on the hillside be- ■ hind the main rock face. He said that the area i, would eventually be a natural suntrap, the pro•I posed sections offering good views towards the estuary’. ; I Each section would have 'idirect access to Port Hills I Road.