APPOINTMENT OF TOWN PLANNER URGED

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 December 1933, Page 6

APPOINTMENT OF TOWN PLANNER URGED

Number of Schemes Before the Board ADVICE REGARDED AS ESSENTIAL

WELLINGTON, Last Night,

In view of the number of townplanning schemes at present before the board and of the likelihood of further ones being submitted at an early date, the Town Planning Board, at a meeting, discussed the question of the appointment of a Town Planner. Members considered it essential that an officer with the requisite technical qualifications should be attached to the board to advise it in connection with these schemes and other matters which arise, and it was decided to re : commend that a Town Planner should be appointed. The question was discussed of pfoceeding with topographical surveys, with a view to preparing much of the material required for town planning It was agreed that the present time was very opportune for work of this nature, and it was decided that the question should be taken up with the Unemployment Board of engaging for the purpose surveyors who are at present unemployed. • The board considered proposals submitted by the Napier Borough Council for a modification of certain defails in the Napier business area townplanning scheme of 1931. The Timaru town-planning scheme was.again before the board and fur thcr steps are being taken towards bringing this scheme into operation.

The board also had under consideration town-planning schemes for Huntly and New Lynn boroughs, Papatoetoe Town District and Mount Wellington Road District. Inquiries were before the board as to its attitude in regard to further town-planning schemes now in the course of preparation and likely to be ready for submission to the board in the near future. The board decided to consider tho schemes already submitted, • with a view to approval being given to them, and they were referred to a committee for investigation accordingly. It was also decided that any further single schemes submitted by borough councils and other local authorities would be considered by the board in the usual way, with a view to progress thereon being made. / .