Corporation complex completed

Press, 14 March 1987, Page 8

Corporation complex completed

The Housing Corporation yesterday announced the completion of its 30unit Sunderland Court development. The complex, at the corner of Fitzgerald Avenue and Alexandra Street, Richmond, comprises 28 two-bedroom houses and two three-bed-room houses and is one of the corporation’s largest in the South Island. Of the two-bedroom houses, nine are doublestorey and 19 are single but all are modern, fully self-contained houses with a separate single garage. The corporation’s assistant manager of housing in Christchurch, Mr Peter Mackie, said the complex

represented 25 per cent of all the units to be opened by the corporation in the South Island this year. The corporation planned to open 122 units this year in the South Island, and to have 30 of these completed on one site represented a big undertaking by the corporation. Sunderland Courts, which cost more than $2 million, was considered the largest corporation complex to be opened in the South Island for many years, he said. Construction of the housing block began early last year and the last unit was delivered to the site yesterday afternoon.

Mr Mackie said all the units were designed as rental properties and were allocated to anyone who met criteria set by the corporation. The first tenants moved in just before Christmas and only the last house is still to be occupied. Mr Mackie said he expected the final unit to be occupied by early next week. The Sunderland Courts site, once the site of Sunland Bakery which closed in the 19705, has been owned by the Housing Corporation since 1978. The Deputy Prime Prime Minister, Mr Palmer, will officially open the complex on April 3.