Sandilands housing to be retained
Sandilands housing, built fn Bromley after World War 11. will be kept by the Christ-' church City Council, although' some units might be sold to! existing tenants. The council rejected last evening an earlier recom-; mendation by the Housing! and Property Committee that' 24 double units still owned! by the council should be sold' to raise money for other land development projects. Cr R. Lester said that the units served a definite com-, munity need for reasonably priced rental housing, and other councillors agreed. Bach deadline The April 30 deadline for installing electric toilets in' Taylors Mistake baches was confirmed bv the council Nine bach sites where electric power is not available will be repossessed in; preparation for the 1986 deadline for the removal of! all the baches on public Footpath plants Trough planting of flowers along city-centre footpaths; has been "so successful that
more sites will be sought p ■ The planters have suffered !i little through vandalism; they!( ('have capillary action systems!: i to keep the flowers watered.il Donations towards the • ■ project have been received' ’! from three sources — theii I ißank of New Zealand ($100),11 M.F.L. Mutual Fund (sso)| I'and the C.M.L. Assurance; ['Society ($5O). II > Allowance All council committee i< Ilchairmen will now receive!] ,$2500 a year for their ser-1 vices. Until this year the ; chairman of the public utili-|i ties committee (Cr M. R. i Carter) had received the pre-l ivious rate of $2O a day when I [ chairing a committee meet-' ’ ing. and $l7 a day otherwise. , because legislation allowed a. ";city to have only eight chair-j ’ men receive the $2500 allowance, and Christchurch had nine standing committees. Legislation now allows a! maximum payment of $25,000' ia year. Paint job > st A $45,800 tender from Air-j t'less Spray Painting Indus- 1
i trial, Ltd, was accepted for ! a complete repainting of the Queen Elizabeth II Park ! sports complex roof. The 'highest of four tenders had [been $95,410. I After the new painting the; jroof may not need repainting j for five to seven years. Car parks ' Fifteen car parking spaces ! will be allowed behind the ! Merivale-Papanui Cricket iClub pavilion in Edgar Mac- : Intosh Park. Nearby residents [have complained about the I amount of street parking j space taken up by sportsmen lat the park.
Sandilands housing to be retained
Press, 20 February 1979, Page 6
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