TOWN PLANNING SCHEME

Taupo Times, Volume II, Issue 80, 29 July 1953, Page 5

TOWN PLANNING SCHEME

PROCEDURE UNDER ACT A letter appearing in our Public Opinion column with reference to the Taupo Town Board's town planning scheme raises, among other points, that of the possibility of representations being made with regard to the details of the proposed plan before it is finalised. Enquiries addressed by the Times to the Chairman of the Board, Mr J. E. Story, and to the Town Clerk, Mr S. Torepe, show that the Town Planning Act, and its amendments, under the provisions of which the scheme is being gone into, provides full opportunity for ratepayers and others interested to examine the proposed plan and, if they think fit, to lodge objections to it. The actual plan has been available for inspection at the Town Board Office for some time, although at the moment it is temporarily away in Wellington. At the present time the Board is operating, as regards applications for building permits, under the town planning scheme in its present form, this procedure being in accordance with the provisions of the Act. Under these provisions, at a later date, the Town Board will advertise the fact that the plan is available for inspection at the Board's office. It will be so available for a period of three months. During that period anyone interested will be able to lodge objections to the plan, and these objections will be duly dealt with by the Town Planning Board. Only after that is done will the plan bbcome final. In the present stage of the town planning scheme, there is provision for any person who may not be satisfied with a decision of the Town Board based on the scheme plan, libraries, professional and commercial offices, banks, theatres and halls, hotels, licensed or private, boardinghouses, club rooms, restaurants, tearooms and similar premises. Smaller suburban shop areas are also provided, in outlying parts of the town. Service Industrial Area Beyond the business area the plan provides for a Service Industrial area. This area may be used for sucji businesses as laundries, bakeries, milk processing and distribution plants, garages, tradesmen's workshops, wood and coal yards, ware-. houses, stores (not retaii shops), and so on. The Service Industrial area is shown as follows: Between Paora Hape and Tamautu Streets, from the boundary of the business area to two and a half chains beyond Ruapehu Street; between Tamamutu and Horomatangi Streets, from business area boundary to Ruapehu Street, between Horomatangi and Heuheu Streets, from business area boundary to two and a half chains beyond Ruapehu Street; between Heuheu and Tuwharetoa Streets, the same, excepting the area on which St. Patrick's Church is situated.