Note. See the Regulation II. (10) of January 1, 1895, as to the drawings, &c., to accompany applications for the consent Pt. I. of the Council under the Act of 1894, in Part II. of this Appendix, post. DANGEROUS AND NEGLECTED STRUCTURES. When information of a dangerous structure is received, an order to survey shall be immediately sent to the district surveyor in whose district the structure is situated. District surveyors are not to certify unless required to do so, except in cases of imminent danger to life not admitting of the least delay; all such very exceptional cases are to be specially notified to the comptroller by the superintending architect. A daily extract of fires, where structural damage has probably resulted, is to be made in the dangerous structures department from the fire brigade return, and the extract is to be forwarded to those district surveyors in whose districts the fires have occurred, in order that they may visit the premises and ascertain if any walls or buildings have been left in a dangerous condition, and take steps accordingly. On receipt of a certificate from the district surveyor that the structure is dangerous, a notice in the terms of the certificate shall be served on the occupier, or be affixed to the building, and a copy sent by registered letter to the owner, if known. Accompanying the notice a warning is to be sent that any delay in complying with the requirements of the notice will involve the owner in increased expense. Where shoring or hoarding is required the owner shall be afforded an opportunity for executing the work when it can be done without risk of accident. In urgent cases, or on the owner's neglect, the manager of the works department of the Council shall be directed to carry out the necessary works. The time to be allowed for works of repair or demolition must be limited according to circumstances. At the expiration of the time given, the district surveyor is to report whether such works have been executed. If the owner neglect to comply with the notice he shall, if the structure be in such a dangerous condition as to require immediate treatment, or if he do not within App. III. Orders. App. III. seven days from the service of the notice upon him give notice requiring that the subject shall be referred to arbitration, be summoned before a petty sessional court as directed by the Act. At the expiration of the time specified in the order, the district surveyor is again to report, stating that the danger has or has not been removed, and if the order shall not have been complied with, the required work shall be executed by the works department of the Council, under the supervision of an officer in the superintending architect's department. On the completion of a case the amount for fees payable to the district surveyor shall be made out in accordance with the scale, and that account, together with the account for hoarding, shoring, and other works (if any), shall be forthwith submitted to the finance committee. As soon as these accounts have passed the finance committee and been paid, the whole of the expenses incurred in relation to each dangerous structure shall be charged to the owner, and the necessary steps for the recovery of those expenses shall be taken by the comptroller. Licences are not to be taken out by the Council for hoarding or shoring, but the manager of the works department is in every case, upon the request of the Local Authority, to make good the pavement to the satisfaction of their surveyor, so soon as the hoarding or shoring is removed. The costs and expenses so incurred are to be recovered by the Council from the owner. Neglected Structures. Upon receipt of information that a structure is in a dilapidated or neglected condition, an inspection shall be made by an officer responsible to the superintending architect, and the result of such inspection shall be reported to the committee. When the owner of the neglected or dilapidated structure is known, a communication shall be addressed to him, calling his attention to the condition of such structure, and allowing fourteen days for the repair or removal of the same; and should the works not be commenced at the expiration of that time, a summons shall be applied for. When it is found necessary to procure evidence from a local source to satisfy the petty sessional court that App. III. Pt. I. the condition of the structure is such as to be prejudicial Standing to the property, or to the inhabitants of the neighbour- Orders. hood, the solicitor or the superintending architect shall be authorised to obtain such evidence. If, upon the hearing of the summons by the magistrate, an order be made, the superintending architect shall, at the expiration of the time allowed by such order, further report to the Building Act Committee. In the event of the order not being complied with, the committee may instruct the manager of the works department to carry out the necessary work. Mr. Norman Bevan, of the comptroller's department, is to act as proxy on behalf of the Council to prove any debt due to the Council on account of, or in relation to dangerous or neglected structures, in cases of bankruptcy or liquidation. Where the Council has incurred any expenses in respect of any dangerous or neglected structure, and has not been paid or has not recovered the same, and a petty sessional court has (in accordance with sect. 116) made an order fixing the amount due to the Council, the comptroller shall give notice thereof to the district surveyor for the district in which the property is situated, and the district surveyor shall be requested to give immediate notice to the Council when any building is about to be commenced upon the site, with a view to the necessary steps being taken to obtain payment of the amount due. The register of such orders [sect. 116 (3)] shall be kept in the comptroller's department. DWELLING-HOUSES ON LOW-LYING LAND. Regulation made by the Council under section 122. It shall not be lawful to place the underside of the lowest floor of any permitted building at such a level as will render it liable to flooding, and every permitted building shall be efficiently and properly drained to the satisfaction of the engineer for the time being of the Council, either into a local sewer or into a drain sewer of the Council. Regulations made by the Council under section 123, with the concurrence of the Tribunal of Appeal. Every person who shall be desirous of erecting or adapting any building to be used wholly or in part as a G G App. III. Standing dwelling-house on any land in the county of London, of which the surface is below the level of Trinity high-water mark, and which is so situate as not to admit of being drained by gravitation into an existing sewer of the Council, shall first make a written application for a licence. Such application shall be addressed to the Clerk of the Council. Such application shall contain a statement as to the nature and extent of the interest of the applicant in the building or buildings proposed to be erected or adapted, and be accompanied by a plan and section of the lowest floor of such building or buildings and the curtilages thereof to a scale of th of an inch to a foot, and by a block plan to a scale of not less than (which may be on a sheet or sheets of the Ordnance Survey, or may be drawn on tracing linen), showing the position of such building or buildings and the local sewer into which it is proposed to drain such building or buildings, and the connection of such local sewer with an existing sewer of the Council. Such plans and sections shall be accompanied by a description of the materials to be used in the construction of such building or buildings, and shall be coloured in accordance therewith. The points of the compass shall be marked on the block plan. The position and course of the drainage system proposed to be adopted for the disposal of sewage and rain water, and its connection with the local sewer or an existing sewer of the Council, shall be clearly shown on the plans and sections, and the diameter and inclination of the drain pipes shall be figured thereon. The plan and section shall also indicate in figures the level above or below ordnance datum at which it is proposed to construct the floor of the lowest rooms. The decision given by the chief engineer of the Council upon such application shall be reported to the Building Act Committee, and the Committee shall report it to the Council, and thereupon, if it is to the effect that the erection or adaptation may not be permitted, the clerk of the Council shall by letter inform the applicant that the Council, acting upon the decision of the engineer, has refused permission. If it is to the effect that the erection or adaptation may be permitted, a licence under the seal of the Council embodying the conditions of the engineer's decision shall be issued to the applicant. In addition to the foregoing regulations the Building App. III. Act Committee has made the following regulation, dated January 1, 1895, viz. :— All applications are to be forthwith referred to the engineer. When a licence is granted by the Council under this part of the Act, the Local Authority and the district surveyor are each to be informed of the fact, and to be supplied with a copy of the plan approved. The Local Authority and the person to whom the licence is granted are to be informed at the same time that nothing in such licence is to be held to interfere in any way not therein specified with the powers of the Local Authority under the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, or any other Act with regard to house drainage. Note. Although the foregoing regulations with respect to "Dwelling-houses on low-lying land' were published by the Council with the Standing Orders, dated January 1, 1895, they would appear from the Report of the Building Act Committee to the Council on May 7, 1895, to have been made on March 26, 1895, and to have had the seal of the Tribunal of Appeal affixed to them in evidence of its concurrence on April 8, 1895. DISTRICT SURVEYORS. No person shall be accepted as a candidate for the appointment of district surveyor unless he shall have attained twenty-eight years of age, and be under fifty years of age, and every such candidate shall deliver with his application satisfactory evidence of his age. Every candidate shall be required to sign a declaration and deliver it with his application that he becomes a candidate, and will accept the appointment if he should be appointed, on the following understanding— (a) That he will personally discharge the duties of his office subject to sect. 142 of the London Building Act, 1894. (b) That he will give his whole time to the duties of (c) That he will not during his continuance in office Standing |