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The same clause prescribes that the relation between the height of any
new building and the space required in rear thereof, shall be fixed and
determined as follows :—
A line (called the horizontal line) is to be drawn at right angles to the
road, through or directly over a point in front of the centre of the building,
and produced to intersect the boundary of the open space furthest from the
road. A second line (called the diagonal line) is to be drawn in the direction
of the building above and in the same vertical plane with the horizontal
line, and inclined thereto at an angle of 45 degrees, and meeting the horizontal
line where it intersects the boundary of the space furthest from the
road. No part of the building is to extend above the diagonal line except
chimneys, dormers, gables, turrets, or other architectural ornaments, aggregating
in all to not more than one-third of the width of the rear elevation of
the building.
I suggest a verbal alteration at the end of sub-clause (d), so as to make
the wording thereof the same as in sub-clause (6),
Clause 31 modifies clause 9, &c., by providing that whenever a domestic
building, abutting on a street or way less than 40 feet wide, is erected upon
a site which has been occupied by a domestic building within seven years of
the commencement of the Act, the new domestic building shall not be subject
to the provisions of the Act prohibiting the erection of buildings at less than
the prescribed distance from the centre of the road, provided that there be
left between the external wall of the building as re-erected and the centre
of the road a clear space which throughout the whole length of the external
wall shall measure, between such external wall and the centre of the road,
either not less than 20 feet, or (if the building nowhere exceeds 40 feot in
height) not less than one-half of the height of the building. In any such
case the owner may enclose, with a fence not more than seven feet in height,
any portion of his ground on which, under the provisions of tho clause, new
buildings will be prohibited.
Clause 32 prescribes rules for the calculation in special cases of the amount
of open space to be provided.
Clause 33 deals with tho enlargement or rebuilding of existing buildings
which contravene this portion of the Bill.
Clause 34 relates to courts or shafts within a building constructed for
purposes of light and air.
Clause 35 empowers the Superintending Architect to determine which is
the front and which is the rear of tho building.
Clause 36 provides that a building (not being a church or chapel) shall
not be erected to a greater height than 75 feet (exclusive of two storeys in
the roof and of ornamental towers, turrets, or other architectural features
or decorations) without the consent of the Council.
Clause 37 prescribes the procedure to be followed where greater height
is allowed.
Clause 38 provides that buildings shall not be erected, without the consent
of the Council, so that the height of the building shall exceed the distance
of the front or nearest external wall of tho building from the opposite side
of any street or way upon which it may abut.