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21 cases and refusal of 5 cases. The Metropolitan Board ot
Works and London County Council consented to 17 and
refused 9.
It may be well for the information of the Building
Public, as regards Lines of Frontage, to record the following.
Your Committee received a letter from the Superintending
Architect stating that the Metropolitan Board's attention
had been directed to the erection of a building at the corner
of Avondale and Copleston Roads, Peckham, in advance
of the buildings in the latter road.
The Building in question faces Avondale Road, and is
built upon a corner piece of land next Copleston Road,
and your Committee were advised by the Vestry Clerk that
in the case of Gilbert v. Wandsworth Board of Works,
Lord Coleridge had very recently decided that buildings
were governed by the general building line in both streets,
consequently this building, although in a line with the
building in Avondale Road, is beyond the building line of
Copleston Road, and therefore the Magistrate would make an
order for the demolition of such part as is in advance of the
general building line of Copleston Road.
Your Committee were of opinion that if such an order
were made it would inflict a great hardship on the owner of
this corner house, inasmuch as the past practice of the Metropolitan
Board of Works permitted erections in a line with the
forecourts of adjoining side roads, that is to say, to observe
the building line in the road only to which the building
fronted, which custom was upheld by the Metropolitan Board
inasmuch that they resolved, That no action be taken in the
matter, but the Committee wish it to be understood that in
future the law, as recently adjudged, will be strictly enforced.