Blackpool Improvement Act 1893
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1893 c. lxxxvi |
[56 & 57 VICT.] Blackpool Improvement Ad, 1893. [Oh. lxxxvi.]
CHAPTEK lxxxvi.
An Act to confer further powers on the Mayor Aldermen
A.D.
1893.
and Burgesses of the Borough of Blackpool for the
Improvement and good Government of the Borough and
for other purposes. [29th June 1893.]
TlfTHEREAS the borough of Blackpool in the county palatine of
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Lancaster is a municipal borough subject to the Acts relating
to municipal corporations and the mayor aldermen and burgesses of
the said borough (in this Act called " the Corporation ") acting by
the council are the urban sanitary authority for the district
thereo
And whereas the Acts and parts of Acts and orders specified in
the First Schedule to this Act are in force within the said borough
which Acts and orders are in this Act referred to collectively as
" the former Acts " and each of them separately as an Act or order
of the year in which the same was passed:
And whereas the Blackpool Land Building and Hotel Company
(Limited) (in this Act called " the land company ") some time since
purchased certain building land in the borough along that part of
the sea front called the North Shore and extending from the southern
end of Lansdowne Crescent to the place called " the Gynn " and now
known as Claremont Park and have made thereon a road called the
Queen's Drive and have erected houses and sold plots of the said
land fronting the said Drive on which plots houses of a high class
have been erected subject to the obligations on the owners thereof
to the land company to maintain in front of their said plots an
embankment hulking sea-wall or other defence against the sea
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And whereas fronting the road abutting on a further part of the
North Shore and leading from the western end of Cocker Street to
Claremont Park houses have been erected known as Carlton Terra6e
and the land company hajve covenanted with the owners thereof
or their predecessors in title to maintain the roads footpaths
promenades grass plots and hulking on the westerly side of the
said road:
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lxxxvi.]
Bladcpool
Improvement Act, 1893. [56 & 57 VICT.]
A.D.
1893.
And whereas the sea has made inroads on the North Shore and the
— said embankment is in many parts washed away and is in other parts
in a ruinous condition and it is expedient that the land forming the
site of and adjoining the new embankment should be vested in the
Corporation and that they in lieu of the land company and owners
should be empowered to make and maintain a new embankment sea-
wall and defences and in connexion therewith a new road or parade
along the said North Shore and that in consideration of the benefit
and relief which will thereby accrue to the land company and the
said owners they should contribute to the cost thereof by a special
annual rate or charge to be levied for the purpose on them and their
respective lands and buildings:
And whereas the land company make a charge for the admission
of foot passengers horses and carriages to Claremont Park and it is
expedient that the Corporation if and when they acquire the land
herein-after defined as " Claremont Park " should be authorised to
make the like charge and that they should be empowered to make
byelaws for regulating the admission thereto and the user of the
works to be by them constructed :
And whereas the sewerage system of the Layton-with-Warbrick
Local Board of Health (the predecessors of the Corporation) was not
so laid out as to provide for the sewerage of the lands and buildings
of the land company and it became necessary that a main sewer
should be constructed for the purpose and it was by an agreement
bearing date the tenth day of May one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-five and expressed to be made between the land company
and the said local board provided that the land company should
make the necessary sewer to the satisfaction and under the super-
vision of the local board at a cost not exceeding two thousand
pounds and that the local board should secure to the land,company
payment of the said cost with interest thereon after the rate of four
pounds ten shillings per centum per annum by an allowance out of
the general district rates payable in respect of buildings from time to
time erected on the said land of a sum equal to sevenpence in the pound
on the rateable value of the said buildings and that if and when
such rates should be sufficient to pay the interest on the amount of
the said cost for the time being owing the local board should grant
to the land company a mortgage of their general district rates to
secure .repayment of the said cost and interest whereupon the
payments to the land company by the local board should cease and
the sewer and works should vest in them:
And whereas the said main sewer was constructed and various
buildings have been erected on the said land and various payments
have been made under the said agreement by the Corporation as
successors to the local board and the Corporation have obtained the
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Blackpool
Improvement Act, 1893. [Oh. lxxxvl]
sanction of the Local Government Board for a loan of two thousand A.D. 1893.
pounds to pay off the said debt but doubts have been raised as to
the validity of the said agreement and it is expedient, that the said
agreement and all payments thereunder should be confirmed :
And whereas the comfort of the persons frequenting the foreshore
and sands is interfered with by the hawking of articles thereon and
it is expedient that the powers of the Corporation for preventing
obstruction and nuisance thereon be extended :
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation be authorised to
make and maintain the works herein-after described :
And whereas one of the markets of the Corporation in the borough
namely the new covered market is built as to one part on land leased
to the Corporation for a term of eighty years from the second day
of February one thousand eight hundred and forty-six at an annual
rent of eight pounds fifteen shillings and tenpence and as to the
other part on land which with adjoining lands not in the possession
of the Corporation was leased to one Thomas Nickson for the like
term at an annual rent of seven pounds six shillings and fourpence
and the last-mentioned part has been assigned to the Corporation
subject to a proportionate annual rent of two pounds eighteen
shillings and threepence and it is expedient that the Corporation be
authorised to acquire the fee simple in the said lands forming the
site of the said market:
And whereas the Corporation are the owners of the gas under-
taking whereby the borough is supplied with gas except as to
portions comprised in the township of Marton which township is in
the limits of supply of the Saint Anne's-on-the-Sea Gaslight and Coke
Company Limited (in this Act called " the gas company ") :
And whereas the gas company and the Corporation have agreed for
the transfer to the Corporation of that portion of the undertaking
of the gas company which is contained in the said township of
Marton and not comprised in the Saint Anne's-on-the-Sea Local
Government district upon the terms in this Act appearing and it is
expedient that the said agreement be carried into effect:
And whereas the Corporation under the powers of the order of
1884 constructed certain tramways in the borough which were
worked by the Blackpool Electric Tramway Company Limited (in
this Act called " the tramway company ") under a lease made by the
Corporation with the sanction of the Board of Trade whereby it was
provided that the Corporation might purchase the works buildings
carriages plant and property of the said tramway company upon
certain terms set forth in the said lease:
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And whereas* the Corporation have purchased the said werks
buildings carriages plant and property of the tramway company
for the sum of fifteen thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds and
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