Town and country planning : model clauses for use in the preparation of schemes (with notes).
- Date:
- 1937
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Town and country planning : model clauses for use in the preparation of schemes (with notes). Source: Wellcome Collection.
19/126 (page 19)
![“ Street works ” includes, in addition to the works mentioned in Section 27 of the Act, incidental works and works required for planting a street with grass, trees or shrubs, and erecting guards therefor, or treating it in other suitable manner ; “ The making ” of a street means the execution of all necessary street works from the commencement to the final completion of the street. Streets. 12.—(1) The Council may declare any land reserved for new streets and widenings of existing highways in Part I or Part IJ of the Table in Clause 5 (Reservation of lands) to be a street either— (a) with the consent of the persons interested in the land, including persons having a mortgage or charge on the land; or , (6) after acquiring the land. (2) If the land so declared is reserved in Part I of the Table, it shall, upon the Council executing any necessary street works, become a highway repairable by the inhabi- tants at large. (3) If the land so declared is reserved in Part II of the Table, it shall, upon the declaration being made, be deemed to have been dedicated to the public and shall become a private street. 13.—(1) The Council shall have power under this Scheme to execute street works upon the land reserved in Part I or Part II of the Table in Clause 5 (Reservation of lands) and subject to the provisions of Clause 14 (Land adjoining sites of streets) and Clause 15 (Application of Private Street Works Act 1892 [Section 150, etc., of the Public Health Act, 1875]), they shall in the exercise of that power have the same rights and be subject to the same liabilities as they would have had or been subject to if the works had been executed under the Public Health Acts. (2) Not less than twenty-eight days before commenc- ing to execute street works upon any of the land reserved in Part I or Part II of the Table, whether under this Clause or under the Public Health Acts, the Council shall serve on any statutory undertakers whose apparatus is situate in or under any part of such land or is otherwise in such a position that it will or may be affected by the execution of such works, notice in writing of their intention so to commence, with particulars of the proposed works and of the manner in which they are to be executed, together, where necessary, with plans and sections thereof. (3) Where the removal or alteration of apparatus be- longing to statutory undertakers, or the execution of works for the provision of substituted apparatus whether permanent or temporary, is in their opinion reasonably necessary or expedient for the purposes of their under- taking by reason of any proposal to execute street works of which notice is given under the preceding Sub-clause, the undertakers may within fourteen days of receiving the notice serve a counter-notice in writing on the Coun- cil, declaring their intention of removing or altering the apparatus, or executing works for the provision of sub- stituted apparatus; and, unless it is agreed between the Council and the undertakers that the Council shall carry out the operations of removal, alteration or substitution, 40346 Sites of new streets and widenings. Executicn of street works on reserved land. B2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32171791_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)