Q 29
B. O. O. Work.
No legal proceedings had to be taken for the undermentioned offences during the year:-
Nature of Offence. No. of Cases. No. of Convictions. Amount of Fines. Removal of stone, &c., from Crown Land or Foreshore without permission, Depositing materials on Crown Land without permission, Erecting or maintaining matsheds without permission, +29. Private Streets.-Re-surfacing and other repairs under the provisions of Section 186 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, were carried out by this Department at the cost of the frontagers in certain cases.
30. Improvements etc., to Private Streets. In connection with improvements to private streets, footways under verandahs, balconies, etc., apportionments were made in 131 cases involving 234 accounts which totalled $49,618.25.
In addition to the above several accounts were forwarded in connection with work carried out by the Drainage Office. There were also the usual accounts for disconnecting traps on Crown Land.
Accounts for shoring and other work due from owners of private property or their contractors, were dealt with in the usual manner.
31. Improvements, etc., to Public Streets. The policy of requiring houses, when undergoing reconstruction, to be built at a higher level, where necessary, in order to provide for the future raising of certain low-lying areas in Hong Kong and Kowloon has been continued. In some cases arrangements were made allowing the ground floors to be retained at their existing levels upon owners giving an undertaking to raise such floors when the raising of the street is carried out.
Advantage has been taken in cases of rebuilding to require the frontages to be set back to conform to the approved lines of street widenings where such have been decided upon.
Where permission for verandahs over Crown footpaths has been requested, consent has been given conditional upon a clear width of ten feet being provided for the footpath.
32. Footways.-Attention has been given under Section 134 (Clause 11 of Schedule G) of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, to footways under Verandahs and Balconies,
Q 29
B. O. O. Work.
No legal proceedings had to be taken for the undermentioned offences during the year:-
Nature of Offence.
No. of Cases.
No. of Convictions.
Amount of Fines..
+
Removal of stone, &c., from Crown Land or Foreshore without permission, Depositing materials on Crown Land with-
out permission,.....
Erecting or maintaining matsheds without
permission,
29. Private Streets.-Re-surfacing and other repairs under the provisions of Section 186 of Ordinance No. 1. of 1903, were carried out by this Department at the cost of the frontagers in certain cases.
30. Improvements etc., to Private Streets. In connection with improvements to private streets, footways under verandahs, balconies, etc., apportionments were made in 131 cases involving 234 accounts which totalled $49,618.25.
In addition to the above several accounts were forwarded in connection with work carried out by the Drainage Office. There were also the usual accounts for disconnecting traps on Crown Land.
Accounts for shoring and other work due from owners of private property or their contractors, were dealt with in the usual manner.
31. Improvements, etc., to Public Streets. The policy of requiring houses, when undergoing reconstruction, to be built at a higher level, where necessary, in order to provide for the future raising of certain low-lying areas in Hong Kong and Kowloon has been continued. In some cases arrangements were made allowing the ground floors to be retained at their existing levels upon owners giving an undertaking to raise such floors when the raising of the street is carried out.
Advantage has been taken in cases of rebuilding to require the frontages to be set back to conform to the approved lines of street widenings where such have been decided upon.
Where permission for verandahs over Crown footpaths has been requested, consent has been given conditional upon a clear width of ten feet being provided for the footpath.
32. Footways.-Attention has been given under Section 134 (Clause 11 of Schedule G) of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, to footways under Verandahs and Balconies,
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