More Info →Site Coverage of Residential Sections in Palmerston North City

Description

This ten-page report was prepared for the Town Planning Office of the PNCC. The purpose of the report was "to examine the residential site building coverage requirements as laid down in the Palmerston North CIty Council Code of Ordinance. The main consideration in this report is the relationship between acceptable standards of privacy and standards nominated under the regulations." Statistical analysis includes the "Floor Space of Houses and Miscellaneous Buildings in a Sample of 200 Palmerston North Households" and "Percentage Site Coverage Frequency Distribution of Sample Palmerston North Residential Sections".

The report concluded that: the average Palmerston North home had a total floor space of about 1,550 square feet; about 22.3% of the area of most residential sites in the city are occupied by buildings; between 70% and 80% of the area of most residential sites were open space in the form of lawns and gardens. "However, it is likely that as urban land becomes an increasingly greater scarce resource ... residential sites will continue the current pattern of decreases in area."

Identification

Object type

Multi-Page Document

Content type

Published material

Identifier

2024Pa_PNCC7-5-2-2-28_042750

Archive

PNCC 7/5/2

Date

December 1970

Digitisation ID

2024Pa_PNCC7-5-2-2-28_042750

Format

Paper