✨ Building Regulations and Schedules
Regulation, shall, (except the windows and window-frames of the same,) be covered with slates, tiles, metal, or other incombustible material, and if the external and party walls of such new building shall be constructed of timber, the same walls shall be filled in with earth or clay, and every chimney to such new building shall be constructed of brick or stone, and the flues of the same properly parged.
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That no chimney or stack for the use of any Foundry, Manufactory, Brewery, Mill, Gasworks, or other such like purpose, shall be constructed or built within any portion of the Borough of Timaru, without the consent in writing of the Council, first had and obtained.
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That for the purpose of this Regulation, every new building to be erected as aforesaid, shall be subject to the superintendence and inspection of the Engineer or Surveyor of the Council for the time being, who shall be entitled to receive from the owner or owners of every such new building a fee not exceeding the sum of two pounds for every such inspection, superintendence, or other service performed by him under this Regulation.
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That all wooden buildings heretofore erected within the portions of the Borough of Timaru described in Schedule A to this Regulation, shall, at the expiration of fourteen years after this Regulation shall come into force upon order of the Council, be taken down and removed.
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Any building shall be deemed to be a new building of which (at the time of this Regulation coming into force) the foundation is not complete to receive the external walls, or of which the external walls, if of brick or stone, are not carried higher than the footings, or of which the materials intended for such external walls, if of timber, are not prepared and delivered on the site of such building ready to be erected, and the words “external walls” shall be held to include party walls.
Passed by the said Council this Fourteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. [L.S.]
SCHEDULE A.
Portions of the Borough declared under the provisions of this Regulation:—
All town sections within the Borough of Timaru as set out and numbered on the private map of the Messrs. Rhodes, being parts of rural sections numbered 8 and 730 respectively on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Canterbury, setting out and describing rural lands in the Timaru District, and all town sections set out and numbered on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the said Province, setting out and describing the Government Town of Timaru fronting upon either side of the following portions of the streets hereinafter named—
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Great North road, from Sefton street, running southerly to Heaton street, comprising the following sections: Nos. 136, 137, 140, 141, 144, 145, 148, 149, 151, 153, 154, 104, 102, 101, 98, 97, 94, 93, 90, 89, 86, 85, 82, 81, 79, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77, 129, 141, 135, 134, 132, 131, 128, 126, 122, 121, 120, 119, 105, 34, 35, 40, 41, 42, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 355, 356, 357, 358, 363, 364, 365, 366, 367, 368, 369, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
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Strathallan street, from Great North road running easterly to the sea, the following: 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, 36, 37, 38, 39, 26, 1.
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George street, from Great North road, running easterly to the sea, the following: 8, 9.
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Cains’ Terrace, from section 22, running northerly to Beswick street, the following: 23, 24.
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Beswick street, from Cains’ Terrace, running easterly, the following: 25.
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Beach road, the following: 10.
SCHEDULE B.
Portions of the Borough declared under the provision of this Regulation.
All town sections within the Borough of Timaru as set out and numbered on the private map of the Messrs. Rhodes, being parts of rural sections numbered 8 and 730 respectively on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the said Province of Canterbury, setting out and describing the rural lands in the Timaru District, and all town sections set out and numbered on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the said Province, setting out and describing the Government Town of Timaru not included in Schedule A to this Regulation.
CHRISTCHURCH:
Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Province of Canterbury, at the Press Office, Cashel Street, by JOHN STEELE GUTHERIE, Christchurch, Official Printer for the time being to the said Government.
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Building Regulations for Timaru Borough
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🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works14 June 1869
Building regulations, Construction materials, Fire safety, Timaru Borough, Inspections, Wooden buildings, Foundry, Manufactory, Brewery, Mill, Gasworks
Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1869, No 29