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therefore exemption (of individual buildings) is preferable to amendment

of the height restriction". In order to do this D.C.A. hes indicated

that he would have to seek advice from the Airport Operations Committee

and from past record this would be difficult. In any case, exemption

of buildings above the 170 ft. P.D. level was considered by D.C.A,

to be out of the question. A

9.

As only two out of the seven buildings bisected exceed the 170 ft.

P.D. limit one way round this problem might be to consider all buildings

bisected by the 150/170 ft. P.D. line should conform to the 170 ft. P.D.

limit. Accordingly, the two buildings which exceeded this limit should be

reduced to 170 ft. P.D. D.C.A. may have to seek Airport Operations

Committee's agreement to this interpretation of the bisecting line.

However, he would not find it necessary to seek advice from the Committee

either to amend the height limit within the 150 ft. P.D. zone or to exempt

these buildings from height restrictions.

10.

If the proposals to tolerate buildings with minor obstructions

and to apply the 170 ft. F.D. to buildings bisected by the 170/150 ft.

P.D. line are accepted then the total number of problem buildings

requiring immediate attention would be reduced to 26 as follows:-

Buildings exceeding the height limit by

more than 20 ft. Para. 4(a)

3 buildings

Buildings exceeding the height limit by

10 to 20 ft. Para. 4(b)

6 buildings

Buildings exceeding the height limit by 4 to 10 ft. Para. 4(c)

15 buildings

Buildings bisected by the 150/170 ft.

P.D. line which exceed 170 ft. P.D.

Para. 4(e)

Total:

2 buildings

26 buildings

A plan showing the distribution of these 26 buildings and their respective

categories is at Appendix V.

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