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3. Drainage work carried out without notice to the Authority.
It was found that work (drainage) had been carried out
at 44, Clapham Road, without notice having been given to
the Council, and in such a way as to contravene the London
County Council Bye-laws and to render such work a
nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health. No summons
was taken out on account of the Builder apologising, and
making good all the work to the satisfaction of the Council.
Similar breaches of the Bye-laws were made in connection
with drainage alterations carried out at the Canterbury
Music Hall, Westminster Bridge Road. In this case,. also,
no summons was necessary as the Builders exposed the
work, which they had carried out without supervision, and
which was found to be in proper order and condition.
The new London County Council Bye-laws (depositing of
Drainage Plans) were passed on July 28th, 1903, by the London
County Council, and approved by the Local Government Board
on August 20th, 1903. These Bye-laws are made under the
Metropolis Management Act 1855, Section 202, and the Metropolis
Management Acts Amendment (Bye-laws) Act 1899,
and make compulsory the depositing of proper plans shewing
intended construction of pipes, drains, or other means of
communicating with sewers; partial or total construction or
re-construction of a drainage system, or addition to (or
alteration of) the same. These Bye-laws are somewhat stringent,
and put an additional expense upon Owners and Builders.
They will, however, prove useful in securing for Metropolitan
Authorities more complete records of the private drains of their
respective Districts. The Bye-laws do not apply to the City.
During 1903, in the Borough, 265 houses have been redrained
throughout, or in part; whilst 307 plans (representing 590
houses) have been received, approved, and the work (as shewn
thereon) carried cut under the personal supervision of the
Sanitaiy Inspectors, and the d ainage work water-tested.