14-day extension over Styx land

Press, 9 June 1980, Page 12

14-day extension over Styx land

Objectors to the desig- designation had been applied nation of land for a proposed for or that they had the right landfill area at Styx Mill to object

Road have 14 more days to lodge submissions. The Waimairi County Council’s town-planning committee agreed at its meeting this week on an extension from yesterday to 4 p.m. on June 20, subject to agreement from the applicants, the Metropolitan Refuse Committee. Cr A. A. Adcock said it had been a shock to a large number of residents and organisations in the area to find that the deadline for objections had expired on June 6.

A Waimairi Beach Coastal Protection Committee had been formed and now needed time to prepare submissions. These people wanted to, have a say in what could affect the largest development in the area and an ultimate population of 900,000, Mr Adcock said. Membership of a subcommittee for the rehearing of the proposed refuse transfer station on Styx Mill Road was decided by the committee

When one considered the efforts of the council to involve the public in the de-

The hearing Sub-committee will be: Cr I. Calvert (chairman), Cr E. L. Bonisch, and Cr H. M. Tait. The venue for

cision, it was surprising that so few people knew’ that the

the hearing was to be decided by the sub-committee.