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[59 & 60 Vict.] South Shields Corporation Act, 1896. [Ch. l.]
The conversion of a dwelling-house into any other building not intended for human habitation ;
The making of any addition to an existing building by raising any part thereof or making any projection therefrom but so far as regards such addition only; and
The roofing or covering over of an open space between walls or buildings ;
shall for all the purposes of this Act and the Public Health Acts and of any byelaws made thereunder respectively be deemed to be the erection of a new building and the word "building" shall for all such purposes include an erection or building of a permanent character of whatever material constructed.
88. For the purposes of this part of this Act buildings shall be deemed to be in a street when they abut upon a street or when they have an access covered or uncovered to a street.
89. No new building shall without the approval of the Corporation be erected on the side of any street not existing at the passing of this Act which shall exceed in height two thirds of the distance from the front of such building to the opposite side of such street nor shall the height of any building at any time erected on the side of any street now existing or hereafter to be made be at any time
subsequently increased without such approval as aforesaid so as to exceed such two thirds of the distance aforesaid In determining the height of a building the measurement shall be taken from the level of the centre of the street immediately opposite to the centre of the front of the building up to the top of the eaves of the roof or in the case of a flat roof to the top of the parapet facing the street.
90. The owner of any oven used by any baker for the first time after the passing of this Act and of any furnace used by any tradesman or artificer for the first time after the passing of this Act shall construct a wall of not less than nine inches in thickness between the fire of the oven or furnace and the wall of the building in which such oven or furnace shall be and such wall shall be constructed above below and around the oven or furnace to the satisfaction of the Corporation.
Any person offending against this enactment shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds and to a daily penalty not exceeding forty shillings.
91. No building which was not at any time before the passing of this Act occupied as a dwelling-house shall be so occupied until the drainage thereof shall have been made and completed and a proper water supply shall have been laid on thereto nor until a
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