VERANDAHS AND BALCONIES REGULATIONS

VERANDAHS AND BALCONIES REGULATIONS

3. These regulations may be cited as the Exceptional Buildings
Regulations.

SCHEDULE.

I hereby certify that the plans and calculations submitted by me
for the construction of on
have been prepared under my supervision or direction and that the
said plans and calculations conform in all respects to the provisions
of section 22 of the London County Council (General Powers) Act,
1909, and all amendments (if any) thereof, and to the Reinforced
Concrete Regulations made by the London County Council under the
provisions of section 23 of the said Act, on the 6th day of July,
1915, and all amendments (if any) thereof, subject to the applicability
of the provisions of the said section 22 and of the said Regulations
and with such modifications as the provisions of the Buildings
Ordinance (Chapter 123 of the Revised Edition), and the circum-
stances may require or render necessary and with any modifications
specially allowed by the Building Authority.

..........................................
Authorized Architect.

Dated .................................

VERANDAHS AND BALCONIES REGULATIONS.
(Schedule G to the Buildings Ordinance)
(Cap. 123, sections 48 mid 168).
(Ordinance No. iS of 1935).

[1st January, 1936.]

1. Notwithstanding anything contained in these regulations no
structural alteration shall be required to be made in any verandah,
balcony or basement already constructed in compliance with the
regulations in force at the time.

2. Except as hereinafter mentioned any, verandah projected over
any street from the ground storey of any building shall not be less than
ten feet wide, between the face of the wall from which it is projected and
the inside face of the base of the piers or columns upon which it is
supported.





3. As far as practicable, unless the Building Authority shall
otherwise direct, the external face of the base of the piers or
columns shall align with the face of the kerb of the side walk.

4. Any such verandah shall not be less than eleven feet high
measured from the top of the kerb-stone or, if there is no kerb-
stone, from the level of the centre of the street to the underside
of the bressummers or lintels, or, it arches are used, to the highest
point of the underside of each arch.

5. Any balcony projected over any street shall have a clear
height underneath every part thereof of at
least eleven feet measured from the top of the kerb-stone, or, if
there is no kerb-stone, from the level of the centre of such street.

6. Any such verandah, balcony, or part thereof, projected
over any street from any storey higher than the ground storey of
any building, shall not be less than ten feet high. Such height shall
be measured from the floor of the verandah, or balcony, to the
underside of the bressuniers or lintels, or, if arches are used, to
the highest point of the underside of each arch.

7. The ends of all such verandahs or balconies, which do not
abut on any verandah or balcony existing at the date of their
construction, shall be left open and shall be finished in all respects
in a similar manner to the front elevation thereof.

8. Special plans and drawings of any such verandah or
balcony shall he submitted to the Building Authority and shall be
on tracing cloth and such plans and drawings shall be drawn to a
scale of not less than one-tenth of an inch to the foot, and the
details of all brackets, mouldings, caps, cornices, balustrades, and
similar parts of the proposed structure, sh all be drawn to an
uniform scale of one inch to the foot. Such plans and drawings
shall clearly show the lines and levels of existing kerbs and any
proposed alterations to such lines or levels. Figured dimensions
shall be given of such proposed alterations.





9. Any such verandah or balcony shall be constructed of iron,
stone, brick or other . incombustible material approved by the Building
Authority, except that the piers of every verandah shall on the ground
floor of any building be made of cut stone worked straight, the exposed
faces of which shall be extra fine punched or of other incombustible
material approved by the Building Authority.
10. All bressummers and lintels, in connexion with any such
verandah or balcony , shall be constructed of iron or other
incombustible material approved by the Building Authority.
11. The roof and floors of any such verandah or balcony shall be
provided, to the satisfaction of the Building. Authority, with gutters laid
to a proper fall and with downpipes to carry off water.
12. In the case of balconies any bracket, which is not built into any
party or cross wall or main wall other than the wall from which it
projects, shall have its top member extended for a length of at least three
feet underneath the floor joists, or be otherwise anchored down in a
manner satisfactory to the Building Authority.
13. The foot-path or roadway underneath any verandah or balcony
over unleased Crown land or projecting beyond any such verandah or
balcony out to the kerb-stone shall be paved with fine cement-concrete
at least 4 inches thick, or finely dressed granite stones, riot more than iS
inches square, closely jointed and laid on a bed of lime-concrete, or with
such other materials as may be approved by the Building Authority; by
the owner for the time being of the property from which such verandah
or balcony projects, who shall maintain the same in good order, to the
satisfaction of the Building Authority: Provided that wherever the
Building Authority rnay consider it expedient to do so lie may lay or
repair any such foot-path or roadway at the expense of the owner, as
aforesaid, who shall pay into the Treasury, within seven days of the date
of notice, the amount certified by the Building Authority as being due in
respect of the work done, and in default of such payment the Building
Authority may recover such amount by an action in the Supreme Court
in its summary jurisdiction.





14. No verandah or balcony shall herchfter be constructed
over any street unless the building from which it projects has a
clear and unobstructed courtyard, backyard, back lane, or other
open space, belonging exclusively to such building and extending
across the entire width and in

tile rear of such building and of a minimum depth of 8 feet:
Provided that
(a) a bridge or covered way, not exceeding 3 feet and 6
inches in width, when such is' necessary for giving
access to buildings in the rear of the property, shall not
be deemed an obstruction to such courtyard, backyard,
back lane, or other open space, within the meaning of
this regulation;
(b) the Building Authority shall have power to modify this
regulation in any case in which he may consider it
expedient to do so.

15. These regulations may be cited as the Verandahs
and Balconies Regulations.

SIGNBOARD REGULATIONS.
(Schedule H to the Buildings Ordinance).
(Cap. 123, sections 48 and 168).
(Ordinance No. 18 Of 1935).

[1st January, 1936.]

1. No signboard shall be hung or fixed or maintained over
any roadway unless a clear space of not less than 16 feet be left
between the signboard and the level of the roadway and no
signboard shall be hung or fixed of maintained over any footpath
unless a clear space of not less than 9 feet be left between the
signboard and the level of the footpath.

2. No signboard which projects more than 6 inches from the
face of a building and of which the maximum width exceeds 14
inches shall be of a greater area than 20 square feet.
Citation. Ord. 18 of 1935, Schedule G.
Ord. 18 of 1935, Schedule H. G.N.A. 26/49. G.N.A. 26/49.

Citation. Ord. 18 of 1935, Schedule G.
Ord. 18 of 1935, Schedule H. G.N.A. 26/49. G.N.A. 26/49.

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