Huntsbury zone review

Press, 16 February 1984, Page 24

Huntsbury zone review

Sales of land on Huntsbury Spur have made the Heathcote County Council look again at its zoning of the area. The council has considered making the area a special development or rural zone. However, at the February meeting of the town planning committee the town planning consultant, Mr B. Thompson, advised that the issue be reviewed.

Because much of the Spur had recently been sold in 4ha blocks the planned zonings might now be inappropriate. A rural zone was not designed to deal with such small blocks, he said.

The Spur was a unique area with special landscape qualities and the council should consider whether it wanted to zone restrictively or to allow for a number of land uses. Mr Thompson advised the council not to delay publication of its revised District Scheme until after the Huntsbury Spur issue was settled. He said that the Planning Tribunal should be

asked to leave the area out of the scheme until the zoning was resolved. Decision delayed A shed erected without a building permit on a Huntsbury Spur property will be left on the site pending an application by its owner. Last year the council directed that the relocatable shed be moved. Its owner sought permission for it to remain and asked to meet the council. He said he had moved it on to the site to use as a work office for a nursery he wanted to set up. The chairman, Mr O. T. Alpers said that the building could not be erected on the site under the terms of the District Scheme. The committee recommended that if the owner filed an application for a specified departure by February 21 with the appropriate fee and a written undertaking to remove the building immediately if the application was unsuccessful, no further action would be taken