City Improvements Limited v Lower Hutt City Corporation - [1954] NZLR 493

Town-planning — Approval of Building-plans Subject to Condition — Building within Area zoned for Residential Purposes — Town-planning Scheme prohibiting Erection of Licensed Hotels on Residential Sites — Refusal of Application for Permit to alter Building to make it suitable for Licensed Hotel — Further Application for Permit for Amended Plans for Alterations to make Buildings suitable for Private Hotel — Possibility of Licence being granted in respect of Premises — Alterations approved subject to Undertaking being given by Owner that Building would not be converted from Private Hotel to Licensed Hotel — Condition within Local Authority's Powers as Town-planning Authority — Power conferred on Local Authority referable to Structure of Proposed Buildings and to Use proposed to be made of Them — Town-planning Act, 1926, s 23 (1).