A guide to the proper regulation of buildings in towns as a means of promoting and securing the health, comfort and safety of the inhabitants / by William Hosking.
- William Hosking
- Date:
- 1848
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A guide to the proper regulation of buildings in towns as a means of promoting and securing the health, comfort and safety of the inhabitants / by William Hosking. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![who erect costly shop-fronts to display their goods in the most tempting guise, and then spread open gratings before the windows to deter modest women from approaching them. The protrusion of shop-fronts and their accesso- ries beyond the walls of the houses, so as to encroach upon the public way, is a great public inconve- nience ; and inasmuch as the encroachment upon the public ways becomes necessary,—if it be a necessity,—only because the house from which the shop-front is protruded has been built close up to the public way, there cannot be the slightest in- justice in prohibiting such projections, as well as any and every other kind of projection, from being made upon or so as to extend over the public way. The Metropolitan Buildings Act directs tliat in cases of original building, and of rebuilding, the walls must be set back, so that all projections therefrom, and also all steps, cellar - doors [flaps], and area enclosures, shall only overhang or occupy the ground of the owner of the building, without over- hanging or encroaching upon any public way; and if effect were given to this rule according to its obvious meaning, time—though a very long time certainly—would establish a right state of things in that respect in London. The provision of the Legislature is not carried out, however, according to the directions it D](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21471630_0053.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
