STATEMENTS PRAISED

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30959, 15 January 1966, Page 14

STATEMENTS PRAISED

City Planning Group

'The City Planning Study Group considers that Professor Buchanan’s speech tonight has given New Zealand town planning the greatest uplift ever,” said the group in a statement last evening. “His statements on environmental planning of Christchurch are all the City Planning Group hoped to hear. They show exact understanding of the city, and the group wholeheartedly supports what he recommends.

“We have always considered that pedestrians underground in the Square would be a tragedy. Our earlier schemes showed the eastern side of the Square closed to traffic and the cathedral standing proudly on a green sward up to “The Press’ building. “The whole of Christchurch will applaud Professor Buchanan's recommendation to leave Rolleston avenue as it is. “Christchurch is fortunate that its City Council took the step of obtaining the advice of such an eminent consultant as Professor Buchanan.”

Rolleston Avenue

Rolleston avenue was a road serving schools, the museum, the university and other institutions and many houses, and it should not be traversed by extraneous traffic, said Professor Colin Buchanan in his report to the City Council last evening. “We do not favour the Antigua street bridge,” he said. “It seems something of a miracle that there should be the present discontinuity in the grid of streets, and w’e think it should be left.”