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the purpose was to be repaid within 60 years. The
Bill was rejected on second reading.
London
County Council
(Sewerage and
Drainage).
One of the Clauses of this Bill would
have empowered the Council to make
bye-laws requiring that proper plans and
sections of the drains and drainage arrangements in
houses erected after the passing of the Act shall be
supplied to Sanitary Authorities. The number of
notices of alterations to drains received by the Board
are almost as numerous as the notices received for the
erection of new buildings, and it is evident that the
deposit of plans is as necessary in the one case as in the
other. The Board, therefore, requested the London
County Council to extend the application of the proposed
bye-laws to alterations to existing drains. The Council, .
however, were advised that their advertised notice of the
Bill would not permit of the clause being altered in the
manner suggested. The Board were of opinion that
the absence of power to require plans of alterations to
and reconstruction of existing drains was a serious
defect of the Bill, and they took steps with the view of
procuring an amendment of the clause when the Bill
came before the Committee of the House of Commons.
Objection to the clause was also raised in other quarters,
and the Council decided to withdraw it. The
Board have now suggested to the Council that the
object of the clause would be best met by obtaining an
sxtension of the existing provisions of the Metropolis
Management Acts which require notice to be given of
intended laying of drains, so as to provide that the
notice shall be accompanied by such plans and particulars
as the local authority may require.
London
County Council
(General PowersI
of London,
c 2
This Bill is to empower the Council to
make street improvements in various parts
including the widening of Battersea Park