Excerpt from Knight's Annotated Model Byelaws: Comprising the Model Series of the Local Government Board, Under the Public Health Acts; With Diagrams and Approved Additional and Alternative Clauses

The original model code issued by the Local Government Board remained practically unaltered until little more than a year ago, when the new revised urban model was issued. The Board had previously, in 1901, issued for the use of Rural District Councils a short series of byelaws with respect to new buildings and certain matters in connection with buildings, commonly called the rural model. This series is limited to the subjects in respect to which Rural District Councils may obtain power to make byelaws by the adoption of Part III. Of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890 (section and therefore differs from the urban model in containing no clauses with respect to new streets, or with respect to foundations, walls, chimneys, and roofs of new buildings for securing stability and the prevention of fires. The proper regulation of cottage construction is as important in rural as in urban districts, and whilst this is thoroughly recognized by the expert officials and local authorities, the general public entirely fail to appreciate the real issues involved in the application of byelaws, and during recent years this fact has militated against any progress being made, for the tendency has been to decry byelaws as an unjust interference with the freedom of action of builders. There is much yet to be done before a satisfactory code dealing with rural cottage building can be framed, and the present rural model of the Local Government Board can only be regarded as a sort of stop-gap. It will rest with rural councils to evolve some modifications of that code which will make better provision for matters that ought to be dealt with.

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