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A.-In Leeds.
Q. Can you tell us about the population of Leeds, roughly?
A.-At the present time, it is about 500,000, and at that time it was something like 400,000.
Q. What is the system there, when an Architect sends in plans for approval to the Authority?
A. Every alternate Friday plans are sent in up to six o'clock in the evening; they must be in by six o'clock on the Friday. Then the Inspector of Buildings looks through them, and on Monday morning a clerk goes from your office, and the plans that require amendment are laid out on a long table, and on each set of plans is a slip of paper. On this slip of paper is noted the alterations required to put them in accordance with the law. The clerk takes them away on the Monday and the alterations are made, and they must be sent in before Tuesday afternoon.. Then they go before the Board, and if they are in accordance with the Bye-laws, they are passed, and on the Friday or Saturday morning they are all taken out. The clerk goes to the Building Inspector's office, and all the plans are on the table, and those that were passed were stamped "approved". If they were not passed, reasons were stated on a sheet of paper attached. Then you sent them to your client, and explained why they were not in accordance with the Bye-laws, and if he wished. to comply with the Bye-laws, they could be sent in on the following Friday, i.e., the second Friday after they were first sent in.
The Chairman. By whom were the plans passed,-by an engineer?
A. Yes.
Q.-You said an Inspector. He is a man with an engineer's training ?
A. Yes.
Mr. Shelton Hooper.--The equivalent of the Executive Engineer in the Government here, we will say ?
A. Yes.
The Chairman.--As I understand you, it amounted to this. You sent in your plans on the Friday, and if they were in accordance with the regulations, you got them back on the Tuesday?
A.-No, on the following Friday. They must remain in a week.
Q.Then you have an opportunity of correcting them on the Tuesday. With one correction, they can be passed within 8 or 9 days?
A.-Within a week. They cannot remain longer than a week, and they cannot remain less than a week.
Mr. Shelton Hooper.-After they have been approved, and the buildings have been commenced, do the Municipal Authorities by their officials inspect the work as it goes on?
A. Yes.
Q. And if it is not in order?
A.
You receive a notice that certain things have been done in contravention of the Bye-laws, or not in accordance with the plans.
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