The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's HandbookBoulnois, H. Percy (Henry Percy)
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The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's Handbook
Boulnois, H. Percy (Henry Percy)
Municipal engineering; Sanitary engineering
(2.) It is advisable for the town surveyor to have in his possession a
number of printed forms on which application should be made by the
person intending to erect a new building and filled in and signed by him
or his duly authorised agent. The following is given as a specimen form
for this purpose:
_To the Surveyor of the Urban Authority of _
I hereby give you notice that it is my intention to erect certain
buildings in street, and that the following particulars relate
thereto:
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No.| Questions. ||No.| Answers.
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1 |Christian and Surname _in full_, || 1 |
|Address and Occupation of || |
|persons for whom buildings to || |
|be erected. || |
| || |
2 |Number of drawings deposited. || 2 |
| || |
3 |Name of architect, if any. || 3 |
| || |
4 |Description of buildings and of || 4 |
|the materials to be used in || |
|construction of same. || |
| || |
5 |Situation of buildings. || 5 |
| || |
6 |Level, or intended level of cellar,|| 6 |
|or ground floor, with reference || |
|to surface of street. || |
| || |
7 |Thickness of walls. || 7 |
| || |
8 |Height of building in stories. || 8 |
| || |
9 |Area of clear open space at rear || 9 |
|or side of buildings exclusively || |
|belonging thereto. || |
| || |
10 |Distance across such open space. ||10 |
| || |
11 |Description of ventilation. ||11 |
| || |
12 |Width of street or open space ||12 |
|opposite buildings. || |
| || |
13 |Size and description of drains, ||13 |
|and traps, and if ventilated. || |
| || |
14 |Inclination of drains. ||14 |
| || |
15 |Description of outlet to drains. ||15 |
| || |
16 |How supplied with water. ||16 |
| || |
17 |Situation, dimensions, and ||17 |
|particulars of apparatus of w.c.’s.|| |
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