LAND-OWNERS’ RIGHTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 478, 6 October 1928, Page 11

LAND-OWNERS’ RIGHTS

MUNICIPALITIES AND TOWN-PLANNING AMENDING BILL ALTERED (THE SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, To-day. Changes were made in the Municipal Corporations Amendment Bill by the Legislative Council to-day. Tho clause imposing restrictions on the subdivision of land within boroughs, and requiring lands which it is proposed to subdivide to be surveyed and approved before being cut up was deleted. The Council also struck out the clause enabling a borough council to define portions of the borough as residential areas and prohibiting the establishment in such areas of trades or industries. Sir Francis Bell said the Town Planning Act provided for separation of residential areas from industrial areas, and also for the payment of compensation. The Municipal Corporations Association wished to have the same power without the right to pay compensation. He could not defend in the Council a thing which was so utterly indefensible. In regard to the clause increasing the maximum width of streets to 100 ft., an alteration was made providing that the right of compensation for the taking of land shall not accrue until substantial building operations are put in hand, or unless the land affected is disposed vof for less than the owner could reasonably have demanded or expected to receive if the street had not been widened.