PERMIT REFUSED

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 25, 20 November 1945, Page 5

PERMIT REFUSED

BRICK AREA QUESTION AGAIN

COUNCIL AT VARIANCE

5 The old problem of defining just and where the application of the Borough By-law covering the erection ol' brick and. concrete structures within a defined area, was. once again the cause of some debate at the Borough Council meeting last Monday. The question arose from an application by Messrs. L. D. Nathan and Co. for permission to replace the old sample rooms at the rear of the Commercial Holes' with a store room in wood and fibrous plaster cement board. Being not in lull compliance, with the Borough By-law, the application was declined . Cr Sullivan said he failed to see any reason for the Council making such a stand. He quoted other inconsistencies of the Council if permission in this case were declined > ■> and stated that it was on all fours with many cases earning the Council's approval in the; past. The Mayor: Our Engineer informs us that it would not cost very #.uch more to bring the building in full agreement with the requirements of the. by-law. Cr Creeke said he was always against the waiving of the by-laws as framed by the Council. It looked ( to him as though they had been created with a definite loophole which the Council had enlarged to an opening sufficient for them to play ducks and drakes through:. If a friend of the Council, required accommodation it appeared to him that the loophole was but if not a hard and fast stand were made. lie mentioned the A.T.C. building, which, he said f was erected for the duration of the war only.

The Mayor: 1 can tell you that the agreement, was lor the duration and six months after but it will be removed. The site has been sold. Cr Sullivan said the war was not legally over yet. Cr Oeeke: Well the boys are coming home and that's good enough lor me. On Cr Greeke's permission was declined. Temporary Buildings at Hospital Under the same heading, the Clerk stated that the . Hospital "'Board had verbally requested the erection of :* twenty by eight army huts on Lhe hospital for the accommodation of staff members ? owing to the acute shortage of rooms. The council agreed that permission be granted .subject to the Board agreeing that they be there only at the. will of the council and would be removed upon receipt of reasonable notice.