BACH AT OHOPE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 54, 9 March 1943, Page 5

BACH AT OHOPE

♦ UNAUTHORISED BUILDING COUNCIL'S FIRM STAND Writing the County Council at its recent meeting Mr F. S. Brockett advised that in September last he had sold a section at Oliope to Mrs I. Naumann of Rotorua. lit was such lady's idea to build, a permanent residence and retire there. However when the necessary building permit could not be obtained, Mrs Naumann bought an plf ice- building 15 x !) from the P.W.D. Rotoru;a, sent it over by truck and asked the writer to attend to the placing of such against the existing building on the section. The building was purely a temporary affair and apart, from one jack stud, put in at .one corner, it was resting on its sleeper joists. The County Clerk reported that under the Council's By-law a build" ing on skids required a building permit. Furthermore, vide Section 53 of the Health Act. 1920, V 6 p. 1083/2, it was an offence to re.-erect a building with used, materials, or shift, a complete building from one district to another without the permission of the local authority. The chairman remarked that it was time the Council took a firm stand and insisted on the erection of a better type of building at Ohope. The. Council therefore decided that Mr Brockett be asked to shew I cause why the Council should not order the. immediate removal of the secondrhand building erected at Ohope without a building permit.