Metropolitan Board of Works (Various Powers) Act 1875
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1875 c. clxxix |
[38 & 39
VICT.]
The Metropolitan Board of Works [Ch. clxxix.]
(Various Powers) Act, 1875.
CHAPTER clxxix.
An Act for authorising Improvements in and near the Pre- A.D. i87s.i
cinct of the Savoy and near Charing Cross, with a view to
the opening of better communication with the Victoria
Embankment, and for conferring powers on the Metro-
politan Board of Works with reference to Tooting Graveney
Common ; and for other purposes. [2d August 1875.]
W
HEKEAS it is expedient that the Metropolitan Board of
Works (in this Act called the Board) be empowered to make
improvements in connexion with the Victoria Embankment in and
near the precinct of the Savoy, which improvements would, among
other advantages, have the effect of opening up communication
with and making available for building purposes a plot of vacant
ground belonging or reputed to belong to the Board, lying near
and to the eastward of Aclelphi Terrace (in this Act called the
Board's vacant ground) :
And whereas portions of the lands and buildings which will be
affected by those improvements belong to Her Majesty the Queen
in right of Her Duchy of Lancaster, and it is expedient that
powers be conferred on the Chancellor and Council of the Duchy
of Lancaster in consequence of and in connexion with those im-
provements, and in pursuance of an arrangement between them and
the Board:
And whereas it is expedient that further powers be conferred
on the Board in connexion with their authorised Charing Cross and
Victoria Emhankment Approach:
And whereas Tooting Graveney Common in the county of
Surrey adjoins Tooting Beck Common, which has been placed under
the authority of the Board under and by virtue of The Metropolitan
Commons Act, 1866, and it is expedient that Tooting Graveney
Common be also placed under their authority in manner in this Act
provided:
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[Ch.
clxxix.] The Metropolitan Board of Works [38 & 39
VICT.]
(Various Powers) Act, 1875.
A.D.
1875. And whereas plans and sections, describing lines, situations,
and levels of works, and delineating lands, and a book of reference
thereto describing those lands, and containing the names of the
owners or reputed owners, and lessees or reputed lessees, and of the
occupiers
thereof,
were deposited in November last with the respec-
tive clerks of the peace for the counties of Middlesex and Surrey
(which are respectively in this Act referred to as the deposited plans,
sections, and book of reference) :
And whereas by The Finsbury Park Act, 1857, the Board were
empowered to provide, form, and maintain a park for the use of the
public, to be called Finsbury Park, situate in the parishes of
St. Mary, Islington, and Hornsey, in the county of Middlesex, and
for that purpose to purchase and take lands and property therein
described:
And whereas by the same Act (section 20) the Board were
required to make proper and convenient roads for preserving the
communication between the lands belonging or reputed to belong
to George Moore and Thomas Twining Wing, lying on the west and
north sides of the park, so as to provide a thoroughfare from those
lands into and out of the road called the Green Lanes leading to
Southgate and into and out of the Seven Sisters B,oad, and it was
thereby directed that those substituted roads should be completed
before the existing communications between those lands were inter-
fered with:
And whereas by the Metropolitan Board of Works Act, 1874,
ifc was enacted (section 6) to the effect that, subject to the provisions
of that Act, the Board might construct a new road commencing at
or near the Finsbury Park Tavern, skirting Finsbury Park on the
northern and western sides
thereof,
and terminating in the road
adjoining the Green Lanes :
And whereas by the same Act (section 9) it was enacted to the
effect following with respect to the road thereby authorised :
That the road which was intended to provide a thoroughfare
from the Seven Sisters Road to the Green Laues, and thereby
secure the communications intended to be preserved by sec-
tion 20 of The Finsbury Park Act, 1857, should, when com-
plete, be deemed to be in substitution for the roads required to
be made by that section ;
That the road should be completed and open to the public within
two years from the passing of that Act;
That no wall, fence, or other obstruction should be placed by the
Board between the road and the lands of Frank Willan where
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