Fendalton pizza?

Press, 5 March 1980, Page 6

Fendalton pizza?

It ;ii . unlikely that there Jvill be a pizza parlour at the iomer of Fendalton Road fad Clyde Road..? Two such takeaway parburstre trading in Papanui Road and Ferry Road but an Ipplication by Quality Pizzas, ltd, to establish a third in |n unoccupied dairy at the function of Fendalton Road tad Clyde Road was yesterlay met by 35 objections, Mostly from residents in the Irea. . :

A sub-committee of the tyaimairi County. Council, tfter hearing the objections, fecommended that the application be declined. Its decision will be referred to a Meeting of the council’s wn-planning committee toborrow evening. The applicant submitted lhat /Fendalton was poorly terved with fast-food outlets, mere' being only one hamburger bar and two fish-and-thip shops in the are®.

A pizza parlour was “quite a different matter” from such shops, the applicant said, and it would “raise the tone of the whole area” by replacing a “scruffy eyesore of a shop” with a “bright, clean” pizza parlour. The applicant saw the inadequacy of parking near the parlour as the only drawback to the scheme.

However, objectors pointed not only to the parking difficulties but to the traffic hazard that they said the parlour would cause, as well as alleged smell, noise, and visual pollution in an area zoned Residential A.

Mr D. M. Thompson, of 186 Fendalton Road, said the parlour would be an “illogical” move for the council to make at an intersection where it had a policy of downgrading shopping facilities in order to widen the

roadway arid make it safer. He said the parlour would attract “undesirable elements” to an area known for its high-class homes and gardens. ' . '

Mr J. L. RObb, the regional traffic engineer of the Canterbury Regional Planning Authority, said that Memorial Avenue was “a credit to Christchurch and should stay that way.” He said it was the only approach to the city “uncluttered by the commercial eyesores of takeaway food bars”. Riccarton, Papanui, Lincoln, and Ferry Roads were “indictments of road safety and civic pride,” Mr Robb said.

The proposed parlour, which was designed to seat Up to seven customers at a time, would have sold milk and bread as well. “It is my belief that this would be the short tail of a very long dog,” sajd Mr Robb.