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Wednesday, July 4, 1973
EXPEDITING APPROVAL OF PLANS
The Buildings Ordinance Office has engaged consultants to help
consider the soil stability aspects of architects' submissions and structural
aspects of building plans in an attempt to further speed up the approval process.
This, together with the system of curtailed checking of all building
plans from May 15, had increased the capacity of the office to deal with
about 1,350 plans every month, the Acting Director of Public Works, the
Hon. A.S. Robertson told Legislative Council this afternoon,
Originally the office could only deal with about 850 plans in a month.
Mr. Robertson said that on May 15 there were 1,850 plans outstanding,
and at the end of June the number was 1,450.
However, he pointed out that these figures did not reflect failure
to expedite approval of building plans, because submissions had increased
considerably in the past two months.
But he anticipated that even if the figures were to increase in July
and August, the number of outstanding plans at the end of the two months would
still be reduced to 1,200 and 950 respectively.
Mr. Robertson said there was every prospect in the next two months of
being able to deal with plans within the statutory period for approvals.
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