CO129-466 - Individuals - 1920 — Page 378

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Chatham suggests that the existing Fublic Health Ordinances ld be made to apply to all buildings within 40 years from the date

ng of the Buildings Ordinance of 1889, viz, by May, 1920, subject right of appeal to G. in C.

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I see you propose to allow 25 years from January last, i.e. January, 1945, which I think is delaying the matter too long.

The trouble with both proposals is that certain owners will take i Estion till the last minute allowed by the letter of the law and then

uch work will fall due that it will be impossible to get either Erials or workmen in sufficient quantities to deal with the sudden

of work.

I think it would be better to modify Chatham's scheme by ding that between the date he fixes May 1929 - and Kay 1939, all ings erected before the enactment of the Buildings Ordinance 1889,

be made to comply with the existing Public Health and Building tances and that the G. in C. shall, not later than say, May 1925, do the part of the Colony to which it ie proposed to apply this

nice (of. a. 267 of 1 of 1903 into ten areas and shall declare the necessary alterations and reconstructions shall be carried out Area No. 1 between May 1989 and May 1930, in Area No. 2 between Lay

and May 1931 and so on..

With regard to the question of the height of buildings, it is --ible for an owner to dodge the regulations by setting back so as

to "abut" on the street, and the remedy for this seems to be to give Building Authority power to control the alignment, design etc, of Tags generally, as is done at home, and in regard to isolated

dings, to require that they shall have an open space in front and at back equal in depth to the height of the building, but with wide

tionary powers to the B. A. and the G. in C. to modify the irements in suitable cases.

In England the interpretation of all legislation is practically trolled by what is known as case law" i.e. the decisions of the

Court on all disputed points carried there for decision and

ong lacks to a great extent this simple method of arriving at the of legislation, because so few of the points are ever carried

beyond