RESIDENTIAL FLATS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 33, 8 August 1933, Page 13

RESIDENTIAL FLATS

HEIGHT LIMIT

Princes Street, on the rise near Albert ( Park and the Auckland University College,, has a commanding position in Auckland, and the City Council has had to decide how high flats shall go. There have been, two applications for • six storeys, ,but the council says four. At one stage in Sydney's development an cxti-a tall flat in the boardinghouse area on Darlinghursfc rise'stood out so far above its neighbours as to be a landmark to. passengers on steamors entering the harbour, but; modern ideas have reacted against sky-scraping carried out for the mere sako of altering the landscape. When application was mad© to the Auckland City Council recently for a permit'for a Princes Street six-storey building, the City Engineer, Mr.v. J. Tyler, expressed the opinion that tUo better residential character of the street would be preserved, while a more appropriate environment for the University College building would be provided, if the building were limited to four storeys. The width provided in the plans for the outer courts between the sides of the building and the boundaries of the site was short of the bylaw 'requirements for a six-storey building, but in consideration of the fact that a light well 10ft wide was provided for in the interior, preferable from the viewpoint of liglit and ait for the internal corridors, this deficiency might reasonably be waived. ' The width provided for the outer corridors would more than suffice for a fonr-storey block. >. ■" • Th© engineer's recommendation that the building should be confined to four storeys whs adopted. • i