TOWN PLANNING LESSON

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2400, 9 April 1931, Page 8

TOWN PLANNING LESSON

SHOPPING AT NAPIER “A REVELATION.” RAYS MR, MAtWSO.Y (Per Press Association). Auckland. April 8. Napier’s community shopping centre was referred to in terms of high pqttise by Mr J. \V. ALnvson, director of town planning, during the, hearing of an appeal to-day by the* Auckland Tran spot t Board against the Auckland Otv Council’s refusal of a permit for the, disposal of ihe old Ponsonbv tram barn site lor business purposes. “Down fit Napier they have a practical lesson in town planning wliieh is a revela(ton,’’ said Mr. flawson. “They have one of Hie finest things T have seen in any town the creation of a community shopping centre. The people are finding it a, tremedbusi* convenience, and when the time comes to dispose of the temporary buildings there wilt he an outcry, because they have, the whole of tile present shopping facilities of Napier concentrated in a small are.-i at the junction of the main roads. It is one of the finest lessens in practical town planning T have ewer coma across in iny life.”