SIZE OF BUILDING SITES
NOTICE OF MOTION BY COUNCILLOR NEALE __ Councillor E. R. Neale has given notice that he will move at next Thursday night’s meeting of the City Council, a motion proposing an increase in the minimum sice of sections for dwelling houses, as follows: — That the necessary steps be taken to amend Bylaw No. 7 0924) by providing in respect of allotments for dwelling houses that the minimum area shall be one-eighth of an acre and the minimum frontage to a street, 44 feet. Attached to the notice to councillors is a list showing the areas of sections and the frontages required in other towns, as follows: — Area. Frontage Feet. Dunedin 1-8 aero Wanganui 1-8 acre 44 Napier 1-8 acre 40 New Plymouth (some vary) .... 1-8 acre 40 Palmerston North 1-8 acre 40 Invercargill 1-6 acre 42 Timaru 1-8 acre 44 Masterton 1-10 acre 40 Gisborne (about) 1-9 acre for 38 1-8 acre for 33 Hastings 1-8 acre 33 Christchurch 1-7 acre 40 Hamilton (over) .. 1-8 acre 50 Oamaru: No bylaw but subdivisions must be approved. Blenheim: No bylaw but never less than 1-8. The minimum area of sections in Nelson at present is 1-10th of an acre with a frontage of 40 feet.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 6 October 1936, Page 4
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