# Approval of Plans
## GENERAL DIVISIONS
Chief Building Surveyors:
E. H. ROWLEY, A.R.I.C.S.
R. A. C. BROWN, A.R.I.C.S. (deceased 2.2.65) R. A. WATTERS, A.R.I.C.S.
G. L. LOWMAN, A.R.I.C.S. (from 3.2.65)
3.06. A total of 12,937 approval permits for buildings and building operations were issued and details of the numbers of buildings involved are set out in Appendix I. The number of permits was less than the total for the preceding year in view of the events described in para. 3.11 which passed to the Building Authority responsibilities previously vested solely in authorized architects.
## Other notices and permits issued
3.07.
(a) 1,049 Occupation Permits in respect of 1,781 new buildings completed in the year.
(b) 167 notices for the removal of illegal structures.
(c) Demand notes for permits to erect balconies and canopies over public streets and Crown lands to the value of $7,367,984.39.
(d) 3,006 miscellaneous permits for matsheds, hoardings and scaffoldings (including renewal of permits).
(e) 104 Cease Works Orders.
## Miscellaneous
3.08.
(a) 1,330 Drain tests were carried out in various districts.
(b) 194 Building, 4 Lift and 2 Escalator Contractors were registered.
3.09. During the early part of the year, increasing concern was felt over the large number of buildings which were rendered dangerous and usually had to be closed by the Building Authority due to building works on adjacent or nearby sites. In the period November 1963-September 1964, 125 buildings were closed for these reasons and work on 89 sites had to be stopped by means of Cease Works Orders in order to prevent the necessity for this action.
3.10. It became evident that new legislation was urgently needed to enable the Building Authority to exercise more effective control over the way in which building works were carried out, and also, in extreme cases,
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