Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1871 – No. 54

Page 320

✨ Building Regulation Amendment

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Section 4 of the said Regulations shall be, and the same is hereby repealed, and instead thereof the following Regulation shall be made:—
No party wall or main side wall, as the case may be, of every new building to be erected within the district aforesaid, shall be constructed otherwise than of brick, stone, or composed of one of cement to five of shingle or other concrete, or shall be of less than the thickness hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, if constructed of brick or cement concrete; material, and to a height not exceeding 15 feet from the foundation thereof, and comprising one storey only, then of a thickness of not less than nine inches; and if of brick, and to a height not exceeding 25 feet from the foundation, and comprising not more than two storeys, then of a thickness throughout, or throughout the lower storey if more than one, of not less than 13½ inches, and from the lower storey upwards of not less than nine inches; and if of brick, and to a height not exceeding 35 feet from the foundation, and comprising not more than three storeys, then of a thickness throughout, or throughout the lower storey if more than one, of not less than 18 inches, and throughout the second storey, if more than two, of not less than 13½ inches, and from thence upwards of not less than 9 inches, and so on in proportion throughout the storey or storeys as the case may be for any greater height than 35 feet from the foundations. But if the wall shall be constructed of flat bedded stone, the above thickness to be read as 14 inches in place of 9 inches, 18 inches in place of 13½ inches, and 24 inches in place of 18 inches; if of any other description of stone, to be 3 inches additional in thickness to the foregoing.

Provided that it shall not be necessary to erect two party walls in the case of two adjoining buildings erected at the same time, but that it shall be lawful to erect one common wall for both such buildings; but so that the ends of the bearing timber shall in no case approach nearer to each other, or to the opposite side of the wall, than 4½ inches.

Passed by the said Council this 6th day of November, 1871.

JAMES PURVIS JAMIESON,
Mayor.

[L. S.]

GEORGE GORDON,
Town Clerk.

I hereby certify that the above Regulation is in compliance, as regards the City of Christchurch, with the 184th section of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

GEORGE GORDON,
Town Clerk.

CHRISTCHURCH:

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