Scarborough Improvement Act 1889
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1889 c. clxiv |
| Year | 1889 |
[52 & 53 VICT. J Scarborough Improvement Act, 1889. [Ch. clxiv.]
CHAPTER clxiv.
An Act to discontinue the division of the parish of Scar-
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borough into townships and to make further and better —
provision for the improvement health and good govern-
ment of the borough of Scarborough to authorise the
Corporation of the said borough to construct new works
and to raise further moneys and for other purposes.
[12th August 1889.]
W
HEREAS the borough of Scarborough in the north riding
of the county of York is a municipal borough under the
government of the mayor aldermen and burgesses thereof (herein-
after referred to as " the Corporation ") and the Corporation acting
by the council of the said borough are the urban sanitary authority
for the district of the said borough :
And whereas the several public and local Acts and provisional
orders confirmed by Act of Parliament mentioned in the First
Schedule to this Act so far as the same have not been amended or
repealed are in force within the said borough :
And whereas the townships of Scarborough and Falsgrave in the
parish of Scarborough are parishes for which separate overseers are
appointed and for other lay and civil parochial purposes And
whereas the precinct of Scarborough Castle was formerly an extra-
parochial place but became annexed to and incorporated with the
township of Scarborough by virtue of the twenty-seventh section of
the Poor Law Amendment Act 1868 And whereas the boundary
line between the said townships is very irregular and inconvenient
and the division of the said parish of Scarborough into such separate
parishes or townships is unnecessary and inconvenient and it is
expedient that such townships be amalgamated :
And whereas it is expedient that the powers of the Corporation
with respect to the prevention of the spread of infectious diseases
and sanitary matters be amended and extended and that further
and better provision be made with respect to streets and buildings
and private street works and with respect to the improvement
management regulation and good government of the said borough:
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1889. And whereas the Corporation .are the owners of the waterworks
by which the said borough and a portion of the neighbourhood are
supplied with water and it is expedient that their special Acts
relating to the supply of water beyond the said borough be amended
and further powers conferred on them in relation to the supply of
water and for the redemption of the water annuities granted by
them under the Scarborough Corporation Waterworks Act 1878 as
by this Act provided :
And whereas it is expedient that further and better provision be
made for regulating the user by tbe public of the sands and
seashore within and near the said borough and for regulating
and preventing the removal of sand rock and other materials
therefrom:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation be empowered
to take a lease of and to regulate the user of the sands and seashore
lying to the north of and adjacent to the said borough :
And whereas the Corporation have laid out and are laying out
public gardens pleasure grounds and recreation grounds on the
North and South Cliffs and in the Weaponness Valley estate belong-
ing to the Corporation and elsewhere within the said borough and
it is expedient that the Corporation be empowered to charge for
admission to certain public gardens pleasure grounds or recreation
grounds now being made or laid out and which are about to be
made or laid out by them within the said borough and to close the
public gardens pleasure grounds and recreation grounds within the
borough.to the general public on such occasions as the Corporation
may determine and also to agree with the owners of private squares
gardens and other enclosures for the transfer thereof to and the
maintenance thereof by the Corporation and that further powers
be conferred upon the Corporation for the laying out improving.
maintaining and regulating public gardens pleasure grounds and
recreation grounds within the said borough :
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation be empowered
to make and maintain a marine drive or carriage road promenade
and sea wall round the Castle Hill and to levy tolls for the use
thereof and also to widen and improve Palsgrave Road within the
township of Palsgrave in manner by this Act authorised :
And whereas the Second Schedule to this Act contains a state-
ment of the loans of the Corporation authorised and raised and
the amounts thereof subsisting on the twenty-fifth day of March
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine and the periods for
which those loans were sanctioned :
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation be empowered
to borrow further moneys for the purposes mentioned in this Act
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and issue Corporation stock and that such further provisions be
made with respect to loans and with respect to rates and expenses
and the levying and recovery thereof and other matters as are
contained in this Act:
And whereas it is expedient that provision be made for the future
increase in the number of the aldermen and councillors of the said
borough :
And whereas, estimates have been prepared by the Corporation
for the purchase of land for and for the execution of works by this
Act authorised and such estimates are as follows (namely):—
For the widening and improvement of Falsgrave Road one
thousand five hundred pounds :
For the marine drive or carriage road promenade and sea wall
seventy thousand pounds :
For other purposes by this Act authorised for which money is
proposed to be borrowed ten thousand pounds :
And whereas the several works and purposes included in such
estimates are permanent works within the meaning of the two
hundred and thirty-fourth section of the Public Health Act 1875 :
And whereas plans and sections describing the lines situations
and levels of the road widening and improvement and of the marine
drive or carriage road promenade and sea wall authorised by this
Act and the lands to be taken for the purposes of this Act and a
book of reference to those plans containing the names of the owners
or reputed owners lessees or reputed lessees and of the occupiers
of all such lands have been deposited with the clerk of the peace
for the north riding of the county of York and are in this Act
referred to respectively as the deposited plans sections and book of
reference:
And whereas an absolute majority of the whole number of the
council at a meeting held on the fifth day of December one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-eight after ten clear days notice by
public advertisement of the meeting and of the purpose thereof
in the " Scarborough Evening News " a local newspaper published
and circulating in the said borough such notice being in addition
to the ordinary notices required for summoning such meeting
resolved that the expense in relation to promoting the Bill for this
Act should be paid out of the borough fund borough rate district
fund and general district rate and other funds and rates under the
control of the Corporation :
And whereas such resolution was published twice in the " Scar-
borough Evening News " a newspaper published and circulating in
the said borough and has received the approval of one of Her
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