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And what difference does it make ?
It cannot make the slightest difference in regard to light and air.
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the deletion of these what are called modifying olause.
When the new ordinance of 1903 was brought in, they struck out these two sections with reference to new houses, and substituted another clause in which they said that in building a new house, you would have to give a certain proportion of the roof area to the yard, and in addition, you would have to provide a soavenging lane, but at the same time they left in that old section as regards existing houses, and of course that old section, as regards existing houses, was intended
to refer to houses existing prior to 1899, but what they have done now is not that. An existing house is prior to 1903. The thing is absurd on the face of it.
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It was never intended to apply to houses built between
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How could ithe intended to apply to houses built between 1899 and 1903, when between those dates they were encouraging house owners to build houses with lanes at the back, in preference to yards, insist on lanes and yards.
and now they
Is there not another point beyond that, Mr Turner, 20164 that by demanding these yards as well as lanes, the two sections are conflicting, now that they say a kitchen must be a certain area, and they are cuting away that kitchen ↑
That is invariably the case. They give you an order to cut away your kitchen, so as to make an open space, and t the same time, you have to apply to the Public Works Department for your reducing your kitchen below
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the area demanded by the Ordinance, That is the point I want to get.
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