HUGE PROJECT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 149, 25 June 1943, Page 4

HUGE PROJECT

NEW AUCKLAND SUBURB P.A. AUCKLAND, This Day. A roading plan has been prepared for a great residential development covering 3000 acres in the Tamaki district, east of Auckland City. Two thousand acres of the area are involved in a State scheme to build 8000 houses. The total project is by far the most ambitious ever proposed in Auckland. The backbone of the whole scheme is a proposed south-east main highway, to be used exclusively for an arterial traffic route, with no building frontages to it, but linking up at three points with roads to serve the proposed new suburb. A comprehensive report on the scheme was presented to the City Council last evening by the engineer, Mr. J. Tyler, and deferred for consideration at the next meeting. According to reports, one of the most important business centres of suburban Auckland is expected to grow up at a proposed road junction with the new arterial highway immediately east of Glen Innes station, and the development is planned to link up with this centre. Mr. Tyler said the Housing Department had asked permission to subdivide into sections down to the national minimum of 24 perches (about one-seventh of an acre) and 50ft frontages, but the minimum size of sections for the Tamaki district under the council's zoning scheme was 32 perches with 50ft frontages. Besides road and street development, drainage, and other services must be provided." Tlie project has been prepared as a result of consultation between the Department of Housing Construction, the City Council, and the ways and means committee of the Auckland Metropolitan Co-ordinating Town-planning Scheme.