Tribunal allows rural house

Press, 29 April 1981, Page 15

Tribunal allows rural house

A Canterbury United Council appeal against approval to build a rural house in the Rangiora area had no regional planning substance, a Planning Tribunal decision has said. Mr L. R. Rusbatch should be allowed to build the house in a Rural A zone on the Woodend-Rangiora Road when he had established 300 walnut trees on the property opposite Chinnery's Road, the tribunal said. That, was the same condition imposed by the original consent of the Rangiora District Council. The matter had been ade-

quatelv dealt with at the district level, the decision said, and "that is where it should have remained.” Tribunal members could not see how the building of a house on the property could lead to urban sprawl. There were already a number of houses in the area on similar-sized properties, and some productive use would be made of the small piece of land. Mr Rusbatch and Mrs Rusbatch had already planted 40 walnut trees on the property, and planned to plant 400 grafted walnut trees which would be thinned later.