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Metropolitan Board of Works,
Spring Gardens,
12th August, 1878.
Metropolis Management and Building Acts
Amendment Act, 1878.
Sir,—I am instructed by the Board to request your
attention to the provisions of the above Act of Parliament,
especially so far as it relates to the width of thoroughfares.
You will observe that any person building even a single
house upon a carriage-way must set back the house or the
boundary of the property 20 feet from the centre of the
roadway, and in the case of footways must set the house
or the boundary of the property 10 feet back from the
centre of the roadway, and these provisions apply prima
facie to every building commenced subsequently to the 22nd
day of July, 1878, when the Act received the Royal Assent.
Another provision of the Act is, that a way laid out for
foot traffic only shall not be used for carriage traffic, unless
made of the full width of a carriage-way, and even existing
footways cannot be used for carriages except by order of
the Magistrate.
The Metropolitan Board would feel much obliged if
your Board would give instructions to its Surveyor to
report to Mr. Vulliamy, the Superintending Architect, any
case in which it seems that the before-mentioned provisions
of the Act are being violated.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
(Signed) J. 0. Wakefield,
The Clerk of the Clerk of the Board.
Vestry of St. George, Hanover Square.
I have the honour to be,
My Lords and Gentlemen,
Your faithful and obedient Servant,
GEO. LIVINGSTONE, C.E.,
Surveyor.