(emphasis added)
62. Sections 8(8) – (14) make provision in relation to a variety of matters including the
purchase of a house; identifying land to become part of the widened Street and vacant
possession.
63. Sections 8(15) – (18) provide as follows:
“(15) The Council shall not under the powers of this Act alter
the level of any streets or places which are under the charge
management or control of the Commissioners of Works without
having previously obtained the consent in writing of the First
Commissioner to such alteration and the Council shall bear the
expense of adapting or adjusting the said streets or places to
the requirements of the improvements:
(16) No building fronting the new street at the junction
therewith of Great College Street shall be so erected that the
main front wall at the north-east corner thereof shall be placed
nearer than 80 feet to the line of the existing railings on the
west side of the Victoria Tower Garden:
(17) Subject to the provisions of any future Act of Parliament
with reference to the reconstruction of Lambeth Bridge and the
approaches thereto the frontage of the buildings at the
termination of the new street on the western side shall not
project in front of the line marked H I on the signed plan:
(18) No new or additional building (including any addition to
the height of a building) shall be erected on the west side of the
new street other than buildings on the property of Her Majesty
or the Commissioners of Works until the elevations and exterior
design of such buildings have been approved by the Council
and as regards buildings lying to the north of the line marked F
G on the signed plan also by the First Commissioner of
Works.”
64. Subsequent clauses detail provisions for the protection of the Conservators of the
River Thames; the London Hydraulic Power Company and other organisations as well
as making provision for consequential matters.
65. In 1965, the Local Law (Greater London Council and Inner London Boroughs) Order
(SI1965/54) was laid before Parliament and came into operation. Article 5 provides
that: “The enactments specified in Schedule 3 are hereby repealed to the extent
mentioned in the third column of that schedule.” Schedule 3 provides that the London
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