EXPERT ADVICE ON TOWN PLANNING TO BE SOUGHT

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19034, 1 April 1930, Page 10

EXPERT ADVICE ON TOWN PLANNING TO BE SOUGHT

The City Council is extending its practice of seeking outside advice on matters relating to problems affecting the public. Persons outside the council will be called in to give expert opinions on town planning. The Town Planning Committee re ported that, with a view to obtaining expert information in connection with proposals to limit the height of buildings and the allocation of areas for the erection of apartment houses, multiple flats, etc., the committee had considered a proposal to seek the co-operation of persons outside the council. It was understood that in some of the larger cities in Europe and America that step had been taken, representatives of all phases of commercial and professional life being inch ded in a commission to formulate proposals for zoning, and, al though in the initial steps views of individual members might be widely divergent, it was considered that advice valuable to the committee in formulating its proposals would be obtained. A c a preliminary step in that connection the committee therefore recommended that the New Zealand Institute pf Architects be asked to appoint a repre sentative to confer with the committee and also that the City Valuer, Mr Al bert Freeman, be asked to co-operate. The report was adopted.