HOUSING DISPUTE

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 181, 27 April 1940, Page 8

HOUSING DISPUTE

Department And Coimty LAND SUBDIVISION The dispute between the Housing Construction Department and the Hutt County Council was referred to by the Minister of Housing, Mr. Armstrong, in the following letter received by the Hutt County Council at its meeting yesterday:— “I am advised that the Town Planning Board at its meeting on April 3 resolved to recommend a national minimum standard for land subdivision of 50ft. frontage and area of 2-1 perches, subject to a reduction of 20 per cent, under the operation of the land unit provisions recommended by the Standards Institute of New Zealand. Though this decision was not taken with particular reference to the operations of my department in the Huti County, the board had before it the scheme for the Bpuni township, to which your council has taken exception and which complies in all respects with the board’s recommendations. “In these circumstances, I think you will agree that no useful purpose would be served by referring to the Town Planning Board for arbitration the dispute between your council and my department.”

The town clerk of Lower Hutt, wrote asking the council to appoint delegates to attend the second meeting of the local authorities on town planning in the valley. Active participation by the Government in planning the Hutt Valley finished at the end of the mouth, it was stated, and printed plans and reports would be issued later. It was contended- that the local authorities should take over this organization and continue with co-ordinated control of the whole valley.