More Consideration Of Fendalton Rd Widening

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31118, 22 July 1966, Page 12

More Consideration Of Fendalton Rd Widening

" The questions of rezoning -» the Fendalton shopping centre and widening part of Fendal- .. ton road were referred back to the town-planning com--1 mittee by the Waimairi • County Council last evening. The county engineer (Mr I. Calvert) was asked to produce 1 proposals for the scheduling * of work on the widening of <- Fendalton road from Harper avenue to the railway line for .. consideration by the council’s works and reserves committee. The council received a copy

of a letter on the subject written by the Christchurch ; Regional Planning Authority’s

director of planning (Mr C. B. Miller) to the District Commissioner of Works (Mr D. B. Dallas). “It is to be regretted,” said Mr Miller, “that many fine trees and gardens will be affected by such widening, but with planning and early replanting it should be possible to recreate a very attractive road, more especially with an adequate planted median. “In the meantime it is to be hoped that the council will hold firm in its determination to achieve these essential improvements.” Discussing major intersections, Mr Miller said he believed that adequate intersection capacity could be achieved within a parallel widening line to 99ft over the length of Fendalton road. “I would agree with your view that the planning of this widening and the ‘drawn-out operation’ of land purchase should be dissociated from the later problems of construction,” he told Mr Dallas, “and that in the meantime it would be desirable to undertake the improvement of Rossall street and the Kilmarnock streetCreyke road routes at an early date.”