BUILDING PERMIT FEES
GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS INCREASE
An increase in building permit fees charged by the City Corporation is > recommended by the Works Committee. The committee reports that the question of additions to the staff of the > building inspector’s office has engaged 'attention. It seems clear that the office is under-staffed to cope efficiently with the requirements, particularly having regard to the revival in , the building activity now prevailing, and the committee therefore recommends that, for the time bmng, the staff be increased by the addition of one inspector, a draughtsman, and a typist. The extra cost involved is estimated at £560 per year. To meet this extra expenditure it is considered necessary to revise the scale of building permit fees. It has been ascertained that the scale of such fees now charged is quite inadequate to provide anything approaching cihcient service, and is much lower than similar scales of charges in the other chief centres. The committee, therefore, recommends that the scale of fees for building permits as suggested by the New Zealand Standards Institution b* adopted and incorporated m the amendment to the building by-law now being dealt with in connection with apartment buildings.
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Evening Star, Issue 22382, 4 July 1936, Page 11
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196BUILDING PERMIT FEES Evening Star, Issue 22382, 4 July 1936, Page 11
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