(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 Article 5 provides that: “The enactments specified in Schedule 3 are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of that schedule.”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 23

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