Submissions made on beach baches’ future
By
KAY FORRESTER
The future of the Taylors Mistake baches got a thorough airing at a jointn Christchurch City Council committee meeting last evening.
Councillors from the town planning and parks and recreation committee spent two hours hearing submissions from bach owners and bay residents. They then rejected the recommendation from the city planner, Mr John Dryden, not to proceed with a holiday bach zone for 40 baches in the bay. They decided to pursue the question of a holiday zone but left until another joint meeting the issues of how many baches the zone should cater for, where in the bay it should be and how lots would be allocated.
Mr Dryden had reported there was no planning need for a 40 bach zone on the valley floor.. Such a development would dominate the valley
and there was ample provision for such accommodation in the residential hill zone in the bay. Councillors also recommend that the Crown grant road in the bay be stopped, with the exception of a strip of roadway north of the Taylors Mistake Surf Club building. Several of the baches in the bay are sited on road-
designated land. Much of the delay over their removal — ordered by the council in 1976 — has been because the parties have disputed the definition of legal road and whether the baches were indeed on roadway.
The council believed it has no power to grant leases or licences to buildings on legal road. Present council policy is that the baches must go, but it shied away from insisting on that by the removal date of March 31, 1986. Instead it decided the baches could remain until the issue of a holiday zone was settled. If the road was stopped it would become esplanade reserve because it is within a certain distance of the shoreline.
Esplanade reserve is usually administered by the local authority for the Department of Conservation. Baches are not a permitted use of esplanade reserve..
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allow leases to sports bodies of esplanade reserve, which would allow security of tenure for the surf club, also on road. Such leases need Ministerial approval.
Councillors feel the bach owners will be able to have their say on the problem in court.
The committees also called for a report on garaging for property owners.
The recommendation for a holiday zone suggests it be done as a variation to the council’s District Scheme, with an independent commissioner to hear objections.
The bach owners and surf club members who made submissions to the joint committees told of the importance of the baches and people who used them, to the club and its work.
Other bay residents called for the removal of the privileges extended to the bach owners.
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