Land planning irks Drainage Bd

Press, 22 July 1976, Page 7

Land planning irks Drainage Bd

The Canterbury Regional Planning Authority was criticised at a meeting of the < hristchurch Drainage Board for the time it has taken to start preparing a regional development scheme. The board was discussing a letter from the authority seeking comment from ail Canterbury territorial and ad hoc bodies on principles and policies to be included in the scheme, which would not be operative for at least two years. The board received the letter. and an accompanying preliminary report on the » heme, without discussion. The chairman of the construction and treatment works committee (Mr C. H. Russel! i said that the board was already committed to building a second sewage

i treatment plant at Belfast, -irrespective of where the j authority might decide to allow urban growth. “For years now the board , has asked the authorities (concerned, without success, | for the information it needed to make its decisions,” he said. The Belfast plant decision “had to be made some time ago because of the inability of the authority to supply information regarding the growth of Christchurch to the board when required.” Mr Russell understood that urban development might be planned for areas at least 25km from the centre of Christchurch “In that case, there would be little point in discussing future growth because these areas would be outside the board’s area,” he i said.