REPLANNING OF NAPIER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21049, 7 December 1931, Page 10

REPLANNING OF NAPIER

STREETS TO BE WIDENED. EXPENDITURE OF £IO,OOO. IMPROVED ACCESS TO SHOPS. [from our own correspondent.] NAPIER, Saturday. Definite details in connection with the town planning proposals for the business area of Napier are now available, and the Napier Commission is seeking sanction for the borrowing of £IO,OOO, which will be required for the acquisition of the necessary land, the widening of streets, the providing of service lanes and incidental expenses. Two new streets will be provided for in the new lay-out. The first, which will be 66ft. in width, will be between Hastings Street and the Marine Parade, v north of the Albion Hotel, this new street really constituting tho widening of the lane which has always been in existence at this particular place. The other new street is at 'Port Ahuriri, and will be 53ft. in width, running through what was once Messrs. Robjohns, Hindmarsh and Company, Limited's, property from the junction of Waghorne and Bridge Streets to Hardinge Road. In all there will be six streets widened in various parts of the town. Dalton, Tennyson and Emerson Streets will be extended to 60ft., the first street from Raffels to Tennyson Streets, the second from Milton Road to Herschell Street and the third from Clive Square to the Marino Parade. Thackeray Street will also be widened to 66ft. from Munro Street to Millar Street, while the width of Church Lane is to be extended in order to make it a proper street for vehicular traffic. Included in the widening proposals is Waghorne Street at Port Ahuriri, which will bo widened to 80 links from Bridge Street to Macauley Street. Two service lanes, the object of which is to give access to lorries and other vehicles to the rear of shop premises,' are also proposed. The first will have a maximum width of 18ft. and a minimum width of 9ft., and will lead from Dalton Street to the lane on tho western side of the chief post office, thus giving access to the shops facing both Emerson and Dickens Streets. The other service lane will be 12ft. wide and will run from Dalton Street to Hadley Lane, giving rear access to business premises facing the northern side of Emerson Street and the southern side of Tennyson Street. The chairman of the Napier Commission, Mr. J. S. Barton, said yesterday that the Town Planning Board would meet on Wednesday and would give its provisional approval of the proposals. The scheme had then to be submitted to the people and an advertisement published stating where the plans and proposals could be inspected, the advertisement giving three weeks' notice for objections to be lodged.