Strict rules on flats

Press, 19 October 1976, Page 6

Strict rules on flats

The Christchurch City Council last evening refused a Christchurch Landlords’ Association appeal by allowing stricter control over twostorey apartment building on narrow sites.

A town-planning hearing Icommittee noted that building i laws had become more restricted on such sites in order to encourage amalgamation lof redevolpment titles, and [to limit the concentration of [such apartment buildings. | At present, the committee I said, there was little incentive Ifor developers to create [building sites more suitable [for the larger buildings. From now, two-storey deivelopments or split-level I buildings on sites with less

than 12 metres of frontage width, and parallel side boundaries, will have to go through conditional-use procedures.

That will be a “holding change” until the entire district scheme is reviewed next year. Each building proposal will be considered on its imerits.

An 11-7 City Council majority said that temporary building permits—to ensure such things as landscaping control—were required in ;the Bexley employment zone. The housing and property committee had argued that the provision would make it difficult to sell industrial building sections in the zone. They said some lending institutions would be reluctant to provide finance. Cr MOllie Clark said that warning was ‘just a bogey.”