Public asked to help

Press, 8 December 1976, Page 12

Public asked to help

A committee to help the public participate in planning for the growth of Christchurch and North Canterbury was set up by the Canterbury Regional Planning Authority yesterday. * Its non-authority members will be Miss V. Buck, Mesdames G. Hollander and J. Holm, Dr W. R. Holmes, Professor W. B. Johnston, Sir Ronald Scott, Messrs Ralph Smith, M. F. Woods and P. Yeoman. The committee was set up from a recommendation in the indicative plan which the authority adopted as a guide to planning policies in preparing its new regional plan. The committee will promote public study of the Indicative plan, advise the authority, and seek comments from groups and individuals. The non-authority

appointments were made on the basis of personal interest by the members In Canterbury’s development. They have been asked to help the authority as individuals, and not as representatives of any particular group. Besides its liaison between public and authority, the committee will explain to the public the ways in which opinions can be discussed before the more formal review which will produce the new regional scheme. “Because this study is available, it is the ideal opportunity of introducing the public and the various bodies concerned to the determination of the future region,” says the authority’s chairman (Mr D. B. Rich) in a foreword to the indicative plan. The plan will be on sale from December 20 at $2.