CORPORATION WORKS

Evening Star, Issue 22465, 9 October 1936, Page 10

CORPORATION WORKS

PLANS FOR SUBDIVISION STREET WIDENING PROPOSALS At the City Council meeting on Monday night the Works Committee will report that on August 31 an application by Messrs M‘George and Gordon, on behalf of the Otago Golf Club, for consent to a subdivision of part lilork XL, Dunedin and East Taieri district and parts sections 87, 89, 91, 9.3, 98, and 99, Wakari district, and i-aits sections 1, 14, 13, 16, and 17, block 11.. Upper Kaikorai district, was approved by the City Council, subject to Blantyre road being widened to 75 links and Balmaceiven road and ( ■;miirgton roai to 33ft from tlioir tent re lines. Th,- total length of the widening is about 58 chains, and the a'ca flint is to be dedicated is approximately 1.2 aoies, and advice has been received that the club is agreeable to dedicating the required land, subject to payment ot £25 compensation. It has wtn ascertained that; in order to meet the council’s wishes in widening these streets, a new r survey plan will require to be made, and tne £25 a eked for as compensation is orily to cover this cost. The Works Committee, therefore, recommends that the oiler of the golf club to dedicate the laud required for street widening for the sum of £25 be accepted.. An application has been received from Mr E. Fletcher Roberts for the council’s consent to a plan of proposed subdivision of allotment 32. L.T.P. 49, Township of Kirkland Hill, fronting Wairoa street and Ayr street. The proposal is to divide the property into two portions, lot 1 containing an area of 31.03 poles with dwelling thereon, and lot 2 containing 25.68 poles uiid unbuilt on, with a frontage of 13ft 4in to Wairoa street and also a frontage of one chain to Ayr street, which is not regarded as a public street. Ayr street is used by both pedestrian and vehicular traffic and will be the main access to lot 2, the _ narrow frontage to Wairoa street being considered the legal frontage to a public street for the purposes of title. This frontage is narrow, but it is impossible to increase its width on account of the position of the existing house on lot 1. The committee, therefore, recommends that the bylaw providing for a minimum frontage of 20ft to building lots be varied in this instance, and that the plan, ns submitted, be approved for the nnrposes of section 332 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1933. Applications for consent to plans of proposed subdivisions of land have been approved for the purposes of section 332 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1933, .as follow:

(a) From Messrs N. and E. S. Paterson Ltd,, plan of subidvision of lot 2, L.T.P. 3,653, township of Murrayville, fronting Falkland street. (b) From Messrs N. and E. S. Paterson Ltd., plan of subdivision of allotments 45, 46, and 47, block 1, township of St. John’s Wood, fronting Mechanic street.

(c) From Messrs N. and E. S. I'aterson Ltd., plan of subdivision of lot 2, L.T.P. 3,863, block 46, city of Dunedin, fronting Princes street, subject to the property being used for business premises only. (d) From Messrs M'George and Gordon, plan of subdivision of part section 19, block 6, town district, Renting Shortland street and Laing street, subject to the following conditions—viz. (1) that sufficient land to widen Shortland street to 40ft be dedicated free of compensation, and that the owner agree to the batter of the widened portion extending on to the property; (2) that Laing street be extended for a distance of approximately 44ft at a width of not less than 40ft; (3) that the owner bear the cost of forming and metalling the extended portion of Laing street, and also the construction of footway, kerb, and channel thereon, as well a< the cost of connecting up to the existing foul sewer and necessary alterations to drainage, water, and gas services; (4) that exemption from the provisions of section 128 of the Public Works Act. 1928, be obtained for the portions of both streets concerned, with a building line restriction of 33ft from their centre lines.

The estimated cost of widening Shprtland street, including filling, metalling, and constructing screenings footways, is £250, and this work has been approved for being carried out next year. (e) From Messrs Mondy, Stephens, Monro, and Stephens, plan of subdivision of sections 6,7, 8, and 9, block 74, city of Dunedin, fronting Devon street, Richardson street, and Fryatt street, subject to the property being used for business premises only, and to the corner of Devon street and Richardson street being cut off 10ft each way from the point of intersection for street widening purposes. (f) From Mr J. F.. K. Lambourne, plan of subdivision of part section 19, block 6, town district, fronting Laing street, subject to the corner of Laing street and Railway street being cut off 10ft each way from the point of intersection for street widening purposes, and to exemption from the provisions of section 128 of the Public Works Act, 1928, being obtained for the portion of Laing street concerned, with a building Tine restriction of 33ft from its centre line.

(g) From Mr J. E. K. Lambourne, plan of subdivision of allotment 44, block 11.. township of Kew, fronting Easther Crescent and Bangor 'lerrace, subject to exemption from the provisions of section 128 of the Public Works Act, 1928. being obtained for the portions of streets concerned, with a building line restriction of 33ft from the centre line. (h) From Messrs N. and E. S. Paterson Ltd., plan of subdivision of allotments 32, 33 , 34, and 3-5, township of Wakari, fronting Berwick street, approved as to lots 1. 2. and 3 only in the meantime, subject to exemption from the provisions of section 128 ot the Public Works Act, 1928. being obtained for the portion of street concerned, with a building line restriction of 33ft from its centre line. (i) From Mr J. E. K. Lambourne, plan of subdivision of allotment 69, township of Amlerston, fronting Shetland street, subject to exemption from the provisions of section 128 of the Public Works Act, 1928. being obtained for the portion of street concerned, with a building line restriction of 33ft from the centre line.

Authority has been given for paving the carriageway in the vicinity of the old weighbridge site in Crawford street. The estitnated cost of the work, which provides for extending the concrete side margin and removing and repaving the high portion of the carriageway where the bridge stood is £llO.

Th city engineer has been instructed to act in respect of the following : (a) Removing a bank in Cliffs road, above the intersection of Norlolk street; estimated cost, £6. (b) Removing a hedge in Opoho road; esti-

mated cost, £3. (c) Constructing a culvert across Lynn street; estimated cost, £lO4. (d) Continuing the footway on the eastern side of Tomahawk road to the comer of Merchiston street; estimated cost to the council, providing for scheme 5 labour, £55.