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Willesden 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]

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Revision Committee, is as follows:—
(i) Every person who shall erect a new domestic
building of which any part projects in the rear from the
main part of such building shall, in addition to the open
space required to be provided in connection with such
building by any bye-law in that behalf, provide on one
side of such projecting part an open space, exclusively
belonging to such building, which shall be free from
any erection thereon above the level of the ground, and
shall extend laterally throughout the remaining width
of such building, and longitudinally throughout the
entire length of such projecting part, and he shall
cause the distance across the last mentioned open space
from the side of such projecting part to the boundary
of any lands or premises immediately opposite the side
of such new domestic building to be not less in any case
than five feet;
If the height of such projecting part be not less
than fifteen feet or the length not less than twenty feet,
but the height be less than twenty-five feet and the
length less than twenty-five feet, he shall cause such
distance to be seven feet six inches at the least;
If the height of such projecting part be not less
than twenty-five feet or the length not less than
twenty-five feet, but the height be less than thirty-five
feet and the length less than thirty-five feet, he shall
cause such distance to be ten feet at the least;
If the height of such projecting part be not less
than thirty-five feet, or the length not less than thirtyfive
feet, he shall cause such distance to be twelve feet
at the least.
*(2) Provided that this bye-law shall not apply in
the case of an outbuilding or other building appurtenant
to a dwelling-house.
"This sub-section appears to be most undesirable.