App. III. Pt. I. Standing Orders. REFERENCES TO COMMITTEES. 1. Appeal Committee (special and statutory). The committee shall be the statutory appeal committee under the provisions of the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, sect. 212, and shall hear and decide all appeals made to the Council under that Act or any other Act of Parliament. REGULATIONS MADE BY THE COMMITTEE. Any person or persons presenting any appeal to the London County Council, under the 211th section of the Metropolis Management Act, 1855 (a), or under any other Act in that behalf, shall in their notice of appeal distinctly set forth the grounds of appeal, and if the subject of appeal be any order of a vestry or district board, a copy, or the material contents of such order shall accompany the notice of appeal; and at the time of lodging such notice of appeal a copy thereof, as well as of the grounds of appeal, shall be left with the clerk of the Council, and at the same time the parties shall leave at the office of the Council a plan, in duplicate, of any premises which may be referred to in the notice of appeal; and in default of compliance with the provisions contained in this regulation the committee shall be at liberty to adjourn the proceedings on such appeal until this regulation shall be complied with, and also to exercise such power as to the payment of costs as to the committee may seem fit. The following regulations shall be observed on the hearing of appeals: When the parties are present the clerk of the committee is to lead the order appealed against and the notice of appeal. Preliminary objections, if any be taken, are, after hearing both parties upon them, to be disposed of before the merits of the appeal are discussed. The appellant is to state his case and call his witnesses. The order of examination of each witness (whether of the appellant or the respondent) is to be as follows:Examination in chief. Cross-examination. Questions by the chairman and members of the com mittee. Re-examination. App. III. The respondent is then to state his case and call his Pt. I. witnesses. The appellant is to reply. The parties are then to retire, and the committee are to deliberate and come to a resolution by vote. The chairman has a second or casting vote. The parties are then to be called in, and the chairman is to announce the terms of the resolution of the committee without stating the reasons for the same. Standing STANDING ORDERS OF THE COUNCIL RELATIVE Where special conditions are imposed by the Council in granting applications, the acceptance of such conditions by the owners of property is to have a sixpenny stamp affixed. Whenever an application is rejected, a copy of the reasons for the rejection, as stated in the Committee's minutes, is to be sent to each of the parties concerned. The following conditions are to be imposed in the case of buildings sanctioned, viz. :-That the building shall be commenced within six months, and be completed within eighteen months from the date of the licence; .. that the erection be made in entire conformity with the letter of application, and as shown on the plan accompanying it, and be not at any time, in any manner, altered or raised without the consent of the Council; and that if the plan or application be hereafter found to be inaccurate in any particular, the consent of the Council shall be null and void.' Where any land is to be given up these words shall be inserted, viz. :- That within three months after the erection of the building the whole of the land coloured blue on the deposited plan be dedicated to and left open for the use of the public.' With regard to these Orders see the Instructional Letter of December 15, 1894, in App. IV., post, which accompanied the copies of the Orders supplied by the Council to the District Surveyors. App. III. In the case of a one-storey shop these words shall be inserted, viz.:-That no part of the proposed shop or any structure or erection connected therewith do exceed sixteen feet in height above the footway." Note.-See also the General Regulations of the Council of January 1, 1895, as to applications for its sanction or consent under the Act of 1894, in Part II. of this Appendix. FORMATION AND WIDENING OF STREETS. A copy of each plan for the formation of a new street, or for the adaptation of a way for a street, or for the erection of a building or structure at less than the prescribed distance from the centre of the roadway, is to be sent to the Local Authority in whose district the proposed street, building, or structure is situated, with a request that they will inform the Council within fourteen days whether they have any suggestions to make with reference to such plan, and with an intimation in cases of proposed erection at less than the prescribed distance from the centre of the road, that the communication is to be treated as the Council's communication within the meaning of section 13 of its intention to give the consent applied for if upon consideration of the application it should think it ought to be granted. Whenever plans of new streets are approved, a condition is to be attached, that the name of each street, as approved by the Council, shall be affixed on posts at both ends of such streets, until the houses are built, when the name shall be affixed according to law. Whenever plans of new streets to be laid out for foot traffic only are sanctioned, a condition is to be attached binding the applicant to pave the same over the entire surface, and by posts, bars or otherwise, to prevent the same from being used for carriage traffic. Whenever the Council has approved of a plan for the formation of a street to be laid out for carriage traffic, and open at both ends, the applicant is to be cautioned that if at any time, without the written consent of the Council, any posts or other obstructions are placed across the carriage-way to prevent the access of carriages, he will be liable to prosecution under section 199. Note. See also the Regulations II. (1) and (5) of the Council of January 1, 1895, as to the drawings required to be submitted to it upon applications for its sanction or consent under the Act of 1894, in Part II. of this Appendix, post. LINES OF BUILDING FRONTAGE. On the receipt of an application to erect or extend buildings beyond the general line of frontage, such application, together with copies or tracings of so much of the drawings accompanying the application as may be sufficient for identifying the property proposed to be dealt with, and explaining the object of the application, is to be communicated to the Local Authority of the district in which the site is situated; and the Local Authority is to be apprised that the Council will be prepared to receive any suggestions they may deem it desirable to make upon the subject within fourteen days; also a notice that such application has been made shall be sent to the owner and occupier of the nearest building on each side of the proposed building; and no such application shall be brought before the committee until after the expiration of fourteen days from the date of such notice. Note. See also the Regulation II. (2) of January 1, 1895, as to the drawings to be submitted to the Council upon applications for its sanction under the Act of 1894, in Part II. of this Appendix. NAMING AND NUMBERING OF STREETS. Whenever application is made for the re-naming of a street, or the re-numbering of houses, the Local Authority in whose jurisdiction the same may be situated is to be asked to state its views on the subject. The decision of the committee shall be reported to the Local Authority, and notice-boards shall be attached to two or more lamp-posts in the street for the period of one month notifying the intention of the Council. At the expiration of the time any protests that may have been received shall be reported to the committee. When an order has been made by the Council for naming a street or numbering houses, an officer responsible to the superintending architect is, at the expiration of three months from the transmission of the order to the Local Authority, to inspect the street in respect of which the order has been made, and to report to the committee any non-compliance with the terms thereof. App. III. Pt. I. App. III. Immediately after the making of an order for the re-naming of any street, an intimation thereof is to be sent to the post office authorities. Note. See also Regulation II. (11) of January 1, 1895, as to the drawings, &c., required upon applications being made to the Council for its consent under the Act of 1894, in Part II. of this Appendix. CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS. Applications for projections under section 73 are to be treated in the same way as applications under Part III., except that in the case of projections at the rear the communication to the Local Authority is to be omitted. Note.--See also Regulation II. (8) of January 1, 1895, in Part II. of the Appendix. SPECIAL AND TEMPORARY BUILDINGS, &C. On an application being made by the trustees or owners of any temporary building for an extension of the period already granted by the Council, the district surveyor shall be requested to inspect the structure and certify as to its condition, and as to its stability for use for such further period as may be applied for, and also as to any repairs requisite for adding additional strength to the building. A register is to be kept by the superintending architect, showing the periods for which temporary buildings are licensed by the Council, and whenever a building is not removed at the expiration of the term specified in the licence, he is to report the fact to the solicitor, who is forthwith to write and caution the holder of the licence, and report the result to the committee. HOARDINGS. The following regulations are to be enforced by the Council as regards hoardings around or on vacant landNo existing hoardings to be increased in height so as to exceed twelve feet. No new hoardings to be erected exceeding twelve feet in height. Existing hoardings exceeding fifteen feet in height to be reduced to that height within six months of notice given. |