Chapter XVII: Part I: Building Sites

[Sidenote: Conditions as to use of building sites.]

2. No piece of land shall be used as a site for the erection of a building.

(1) If the building is to abut on a road, unless the site is of such a shape that the face of the building can be made parallel to the line of the road, or as nearly parallel to the said line as the Chairman may consider practicable; and,

(2) If the building to be erected is a public building, or a dwelling-house—

(_a_) Unless the site is certified by the Overseer to be dry and
well-drained, or to be capable of being dried and well-drained, in
which latter case instruction should be furnished to the applicant
as to what improvements are necessary before a certificate can be
granted. It rests with the Chairman to decide in each case whether
any certificate is necessary at all.

(_b_) If the site is a tank filled up with earth, unless the site has
been filled up for at least five years, with the proviso that if
the foundations reach to the original ground there is no limit as
to time.

(_c_) If the site has been filled up with or used for depositing
rubbish, offensive matter, or sewage, unless the site was so
filled up or last so used more than five years previously and
unless the Chairman has examined the site and granted a
certificate to the effect that it is, from a sanitary point of
view, fit to be built upon.