Sharp Increase In Permits For New Houses
During the year ended March 31 lasst the Levin Borough Council is,sued 99 permits for new dwellings. their aggregate value being £167,931. This is a sharj> increase pn |he previous year, when permits npmbered 72 and their value was ■ Ll'17, 124. permits for alterations and additipns totalled 117 and the value oi them was £8619. For the year ended March 31, 1948, there were onlj 66 permits of a value of £4636. Six new dwellings had beer started during t'he month of Marcl • and six completed, leaving the number under cpnstructjpn at 9( ' exelusive of State- hbuses, said the building inspector, Mr. H. T. Tilyard, in his report to a meeting o: the council last night. A numb'e] ! nf sheds, garagps and commei"cia; wprkshops were also under way : While fewer jobs had been com . menced, work had been dircc.tee i towards completing those whicl i had been at a standstill for a com . siderable time, : Referring tp State hpusing, Mi ; Tifyard • advised that four singl i units had been completed an . handed over for occupation durini l i the month. Satisfactory progres : was being made with the othe units under way.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 April 1949, Page 4
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