BUILDING REGULATIONS
ARE THEY TOO SEVERE?
When the report of the By-Laws Committee was before the City Council at last night’s meeting, Councillor R. A. Wright observed that the conditions governing the erection of buildings were a great deal more severe in Wellington than in any other part of New Zealand “In Lower Hutt,” he said, “buildings could be erected much more cheaply than the same class of building could be erected in Wellington. The severity of the regulations causing the increase in costs, tended to make rents prohibitive. He was replied to by Councillor M. F. Luckie, who said that so far as Wellington was concerned the question was one that the council might have to consider later. The conditions and regulations were made necessary because of the smallness of the frontages. Houses were much closer in Wellington than in any other city in New Zealand. The risk from fire was greater, and it was necessary therefore for the regulations to be severe.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 118, 12 February 1926, Page 9
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164BUILDING REGULATIONS Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 118, 12 February 1926, Page 9
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