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or District Board liable to a penalty of £20 and £5 a day
if a street should be closed by them for repairs, &c.,
without the previous sanction in writing of the Council,
or contrary to such conditions as might be prescribed
by the Council, and also to the clause providing for
lighting from sunset to sunrise common staircases and
passages in a building let in flats or tenements Both
these clauses have been withdrawn. The Board also
objected to the provisions of the Bill which would enable
the London County Council to divide Parliamentary
boroughs into polling districts in such manner as the
Council thought most convenient for taking votes.
These provisions were struck out of the Bill by the
Committee of the House of Commons.
The London County Council (Tower Bridge Southern
Approach) Bill contained provisions for imposing on
certain lands an improvement charge, upon what is known
as the betterment principle, and the Board addressed a
communication to the Council urging that the carrying out
of the work might not be delayed should the betterment
clauses not be passed.
London Streets
and Buildings.
The following report was made by the
Clerk upon the London Streets and
Buildings Bill, viz.:—
This is a private Bill, promoted by the London County Council, " to con"
solidate and amend the enactments relating to streets and buildings in
" London." The following is an abstract of the clauses of the Bill dealing
with matters under the jurisdiction of the Board in which substantial
alterations are proposed to be made in the present law :—
Clause 2 provides that no street shall be formed without the sanction of
the Council.
Clause 3 prescribes what is to be evidence of the commencement of a
street.
I suggest a verbal alteration of this clause, and a similar alteration in the
last paragraph of Clause 5.
Clause 4 specifies the grounds for ref usal to sanction plans of new streets.
Clause 5 prescribes the steps to be taken for converting into a public
carriage way or footway ways not previously so used.