Opportunity to name reserve

Press, 3 June 1983, Page 5

Opportunity to name reserve

Heathcote residents will be given the opportunity to find a new name for the Cashmere Road and Valley Road Reserve.

Cr M. C. C. Buchanan told a meeting of the council’s works and reserves committee yesterday, that the present title was long and boring and that the public should be asked to come up with an alternative for it.

Cr W. M. Hindmarsh suggested that instead the council might give the reserve an atrocious name such as “Graffiti Place” and wait for the reaction.

The county engineer, Mr D. J. May, responded in kind. He said that something like “No. 1 Reserve” might fill the bill. The chairman, Cr M. J. Taylor, said that Cr Buchanan’s recommendation that the public be allowed to choose the new name was “rather a nice thought.” The subject arose when the committee was considering draft management plans for the county’s four

reserves. It approved them and authorised Mr May to advertise them.

Cr Taylor said that she was pleased that the council had reached that stage. It had taken more than three years for it to do so.

Permits The meeting heard that 25 building permits, two of them for new dwellings, had been issued in the county last April. Cr Hindmarsh suggested that permit records be opened to the public so that any disputes might be resolved at the planning stages. He asked that the matter be put on the agenda for consideration when the committee next met. The motion was passed although Mr May expressed doubts at the wisdom of the idea. Sometimes full architectural plans were submitted with permit applications, he said. Also, it would be difficult to give the “genuine person” access without also admitting the “nosy parker.”