NEW HOUSING BLOCK

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 73, 23 February 1945, Page 4

NEW HOUSING BLOCK

STATE UNDERTAKING TERRACE END EXTENSIONS A substantial extension of the State housing activities now, well under way in the Ross block, the high ground to the east ot Ruahine Street, is planned. Three smaller undertakings are to oe developed in providing access to a new housing area extending to Vogel Street. When completed, this will raise the total of State houses built in the area stretching from Ruahine Street, to Vogel Street to about 400. About 250 units are provided for in the extensions now planned, so that the completion of the whole scheme wiil make a big change at Terrace End, the appearance of which has already been altered considerably by State building activity. In general, the new block of houses will follow the ridge of gro nd from behind the terrace End School to fall away gent y in the saucer-like depression lying toward Vogel Street, around which the majority of the houses will be built. With one frontage on Featherston Street and another on Vogel Street, the new block will be provided with road links to Main Street and also to Weston Street and Williams Street on the Ruahine Street side of the aiea. Rangiora Avenue, now running ironi Featherston Street through the Ross block, will curve along the high ground and head straight- through to V ogel Street. This will be the main access route serving the new block from the city side. Recreation areas, one chain wide and curving like streets, will part housing sections standing back to back in the middle of the area, the recreation strip being in the general form of an ellipse. This length will also lead off toward Main Street East, where a larger section of land is set . aside as a recreation reserve. Toward Vogel Street the natural drainage will be through the Kawau Stream drain. This will have to undergo deviations in the development of the plan, the main alterations in the situation of the stream being required near Featherston Street.