BRICK AREA

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 42, 21 January 1944, Page 4

BRICK AREA

BUILDING SCHEMES RESTRICTED

COMMERCE ST

APPLICATIONS

Despite the moving appeal of u particularly well worded letter requesting the City fathers to waive the regulations regarding the brick area as it applied to Commerco Street,, Messrs. A. M. Bisley and Cofailed to persuade the Whakatane Borough Council to make any de-r parture from its previous decision to decline the application. The firm concerned desired to repair a building recently acquired by it and sought a building jjermit to do so. When a similar application to build a shed was considered from Mr Fred Worrall, the Mayor claimed that the two cases were not parallel owing to the latter being almost in the residential area, and should therefore be given some con* sidcration. Crs Cummings and. Creeke. main-? tained that the Council should stand rigidly by its regulations., even where the buildings was situated well outside the business section. If it was covered by the 'Brick Area 7 regulations—then permits for buildings of. other materials' should be refused. The regulations were framed for the future and who was to say that the town might not spread down Commerce Street. As a result of. the 1 diversity of opinion it Avas resolved to advertise. applications and bring them later before a meeting of. the full Council.