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The operation of this injunction was suspended for two months,
to enable the Company to remove their works or alter their
mode of manufacture.
The Company did not however comply with the order, and on
the 26th of May last your Board succeeded in obtaining an order
for sequestration of the property of the Company, to enforce
compliance with the injunction, but the Court directed that the
order should not be acted upon for one month.
Before the month had expired the action came on for trial
before Mr. Justice Chitty, and in the result the Metropolitan
Railway Company were restrained by a perpetual injunction from
manufacturing or permitting to be manufactured, and from using
or permitting to be used, gas at or near the Broadway Station, in
such a manner as to be or create a nuisance to the public. And
the Railway Company were also ordered to pay the costs of the
motions and of the action.
Wood Lane.
The legal proceedings that were commenced upon the apportionment
for paving Wood Lane (South end) were abandoned, in
consequence of there being so many difficulties in the way; but
the Board continued the negotiations with owners of property on
the West side of the road, and eventually carried out the paving
of the path on that side at the cost of the owners.
Builders—7 day's notice. Sec. 76., 18 and 19 Vic., cap. 120.
The Board has resolved to enforce the provisions of the Act
of Parliament, and public notices have been issued informing
builders that previous to the commencement of building operations,
they will be required to give seven days' notice, as provided
in this section.
Widening Fulham Road, opposite Union.
A proposal having been made by Sir William Palliser to give
up certain land for the purpose of widening the Fulham Road,
opposite the Union, the Board resolved that they would kerb and
pave the path upon condition that the length of road as shewn
on the plan, be widened to 50 feet. The building operations
have not been commenced, so that the proposed improvement is
not yet carried out.
Ann's Terrace.
The entrance to Ann's Terrace having been widened by the
Railway Company, the Board was of opinion that the improvement
should be further extended by the setting back of the fences
of the first six houses, and the Board took steps under the Act