TRAM BARN SITE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1078, 16 September 1930, Page 10

TRAM BARN SITE

NO SALE AS RESIDENTIAL SECTIONS TRANSPORT BOARD DILEMMA The Transport Board having failed to sell its old tram barn site, Jervois Road, as residential sections, decided today to approach the Town Planning Committee of the City Council again for authority to offer the whole area fronting Jervois Road as business lots. The board's auctioneer wrote as follows: —“I wish again to emphasise that I have repeatedly brought before your board that the result of the sale shows the absolute futility of confining the sale of these sections for residential purposes only. As I have pointed out to your board on many previous occasions, the Jervois Road and Wallace Street frontages are essentially business sites, and thts contention of mine, which I feel sure you will agree with, is borne out over every section of the community. “I have had repeated inquiries for the sections at the corner of Wallace Street and Jervois Road and Salisbury Street for business sites, and 1 feel sure that your board would be well advised to make an appeal to the Town Planning Committee to reconsider its decision and allow us to offer certain of the sections for business purposes.” "We must do something to protect our interests,” remarked the chairman, Mr. J. A. C. Allum. Mr. E. H. Potter suggested that the area be made available both for commercial and residential purposes, and application be made to the City Council accordingly. This course was adopted.