After hours service refused

Press, 29 January 1988, Page 4

After hours service refused

The After Hours Medical Service has had its application to build a new medical centre, after hours pharmacy and professional offices on Bealey Avenue turned down. The Christchurch City Council town planning committee refused the application in its present form because it believed the company, After Hours Properties, Ltd, had not given sufficient consideration to the impact of the development on the residential neighbourhood. The company had attempted to over-develop the site and the proposed number of car-parks seemed to be inadequate

for the scale of operation, the committee said. It recommended the company reconsider its proposal and lodge another application with appropriate amendments. The committee was in favour of the proposal to establish an urgent pharmacy within the complex. After Hours Properties, Ltd, a co-operative group of doctors, had applied to build a two-storey building on the site housing a medical centre, after hours pharmacy and professional offices. It already runs an after hours surgery in an existing building on the site.