Cross-objections lodged

Press, 18 July 1980, Page 4

Cross-objections lodged

-About 1200 cross-objec-tions have been lodged under the Christchurch City District Scheme Review. ' This is about a third the number ?pf. objections which the cross-objections J are either for or against.'They closed last Friday. A council town-planning department spokesman said the main areas of cross-ob-jection concerned zoning proposals for the Avon Loop area and residential area between Hagiey., Park and Victoria street., ?.? •. "■ Roaffing . proposals for

Cranmer Square and Latimer Square and the proposed > Avpnside-Woodham express- : way, the . largest' issues to < emerge at the objection ' ptage, attracted fewer cross- ' Objections. i The spokesman said about 1 90 cross-objections had been lodged over: the. expressway, about ?0■ • over. -Latimer ; Square, and. about 15 over i Cranmer! Square- ■ ' These .were. all in support I of previously lodged objec- ; tions, except fpp cross-objec-tions of support for the road’ ipg changes by the Canterbury United Council- . ■ ;.

A big majority of crossobjectors indicated they did pot W is h to be heard by the council, the spokesman saidThe objections and crossobjections would now be arranged for a programme of bearings on the scheme review, he said. The chairmen of the town? planning committee (Sir Terence McCombs) has indicated that minor issues wilj .be heard before the October Iqbal- body ejections,, arid those requiring longer hearing time would be dealt with early,'-next year.