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BYE LAW AS TO THE FORMATION OF NEW STREETS IN THE
METROPOLIS,
Made by the Metropolitan Board of Works at a Meeting of the said
Board, held at Guildhall, in the City of London, on the 17th day of
March, in the year of our Lord 1857, in and for the limits of
the Metropolis as defined by an Act passed in the 19 th year of the
reign of Her present Majesty, "For the better Local Management
of the Metropolis:" and submitted to and confirmed at a subsequent
meeting of the said Board, held at Guildhall aforesaid, in
and for the limits aforesaid, on the 3rd day of April, in the year
of our Lord 1857; and approved by the Right Honourable Sir
George Grey, Baronet, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries
of State, pursuant to the said Act; and published this 1st day of
May, anno domini 1857.
In pursuance of the Powers vested in the Metropolitan
Board of Works, by the Act of Parliament passed in the
Nineteenth year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled,
"An Act for the better Local Management of the
Metropolis," It is hereby Ordered by the said Board as
follows, that is to say:—
1. Four weeks, at the least, before any New Street shall be laid out,
written Notice shall be given to the Metropolitan Board of Works, at their
Office, No. 1, Greek Street, Soho, in the County of Middlesex, by the
person or persons intending to lay out such New Street, stating the proposed
level and width thereof, and accompanied by a plan of the ground,
showing the local situation of the same.
2. Forty feet, at the least, shall be the width of every New Street
intended for carriage traffic; twenty feet, at the least, shall be the width
of every New Street intended only for foot traffic: Provided that the said
width, respectively, shall be construed to mean the width of the carriage
and footway only, exclusive of any gardens, forecourts, open areas, or other
spaces in front of the houses or buildings erected or intended to be erected
in any street.
3. Every New Street shall, unless the Metropolitan Board of Works
otherwise consent in writing, have at the least two entrances of the full
width of such Street; and shall be open from the ground upward.
4. The measurement of the width of every New Street shall be taken at
a right angle to the course thereof, half on either side from the centre or
crown of the roadway to the external wall or front of the intended houses
or buildings on each side thereof; but where forecourts or other spaces are
intended to be left in front of the houses or buildings, then the width of
the Street, as already defined, shall be measured from the centre line up to
the fence, railing, or boundary dividing, or intended to divide such forecourts,
gardens, or spaces from the public way.
5. The carriage-way of every New Street must curve or fall from the
centre or crown thereof at the rate of three-eighths of an inch, at the least,
for every foot of breadth.
6. In every New Street the curb to each footpath must not be less than
four, nor more than eight inches, above the channel of the roadway, except
in the case of crossings, paved or formed for the use of foot-passengers;