ANNEXE AS DWELLING

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 272, 12 August 1932, Page 12

ANNEXE AS DWELLING

Council Refuses Permission Permission to use an existing building at the rear of certain preimises on The Terrace as a dwelling was refused by the City Council last evening. The subject was included in the report of the by-laws committee, and Councillor W. Appleton expressed the opinion that a permit should be granted. A report was read showing the actual position, and Councillor Appleton confessed that he must have been wrongly informed. When the committee’s report had been read, he said that, as he understood the position, if the ratepayer had applied for a permit in the first place for the building as an annexe it would have been granted. “I don’t like to level the charge,” he said, “but it certainly looks as if there’s one law for people who have some influence and one for people who have not. I don’t see why a permit cannot be granted. At a time like this we don’t want to harass the ratepayers. There are hundreds of other buildings in the city much worse than this particular one.” Councillor H. A. Huggins, chairman of the committee, said that his own personal fepling was that th° building was an excellent one. It wou.d not create a slum and was a thousand times better than many buildings in Wellington. Councillor R. McKeen said that he understood that the granting of a permit in this particular case was statutorily prevented. A report on the subject, explaining the position, was read to the council, and Councillor Appleton said at its conclusion that he now saw what the situation was. He had not been given the facts correctly.