SUBDIVISION PLANS

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32519, 20 December 1944, Page 7

SUBDIVISION PLANS

COUNCIL’S SPECIFICATION MODIFICATION IN METALLNG Some Objections to the specifications it had drawn up in governing reading in subdivisions were received at the November meeting the Thames County Council, Whangamata being the area particularly concerned 1 . Mr P. Williamson, of Whangamata, who was a member of a deputation which waited on a previous meeting of the council about this subject, wrote saying that the deputation emphasised that the subdivision proposals were in the nature of pioneering undertakings and that all the roads thereon were blind roads. Furthermore, the dedicated roads leading to the subdivisions, and which' were under the council’s jurisdiction, were of a • standard nowhere approaching specification B. '“We therefore feel still that it is quite unreasonable for the owners of the properties affected to he compelled 'to comply with the proposed specifications,” saidi the letter.

Another person, who contemplates making a subdivision shortly, wrote that it would involve considerable financial hardship for him to carry out the specifications. The council discussed the problems connected with these subdivisions at length and decided •it would accept specification B, except that it would waive the condition that the metal must be crushed, that metal from Bentley’s outlet could be used and placed on the roads of specification dimensions provided it was: napped on top. An inspection will also he made later.