Final addresses on expressway to begin

Press, 21 November 1987, Page 5

Final addresses on expressway to begin

Final addresses in the Planning Tribunal hearing over the disputed northern arterial expressway will begin next week. The hearing's tenth day concluded with the evidence of Mr Kenneth Ackley, a Canterbury University senior lecturer in planning. On Monday the last witness for the appellants will be called and then the counsels will present their summings up. Mr Ackley’s evidence i

claimed the Christchurch City Council’s district scheme did not support an arterial route through St Albans. He referred to scheme clauses and explained the contrasts construction of the expressway would create. Mr Ackley said nearly 30 clauses would be “conflicting and inconsistent” if the road went ahead. The loss of 198 houses would put pressure on

i accommodation, he said, t However, under cross--1 examination from the 1 Minister of Works and Development’s counsel, 5 Miss Beverly Curtis, he ; did not know what perf centage of St Albans 1 houses the 198 represented. Six St Albans residents ; put their cases to the tribunal. Their evidence covered the effects the expressway would have on community life.