16. Power to take land adjoining new streets for building purposes
Feedback & supportIn making any new streets, in addition to the land required for the carriageways and footways thereof, the Director-General may, with the sanction of the Minister, also —
acquire the land necessary for the houses and buildings to form the street;
street
“street” includes any road, square, footway or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public has a right of way, and also the way over any public bridge, and also includes any road, footway or passage, open court or open alley, used or intended to be used as a means of access to two or more holdings, whether the public has a right of way thereover or not; and all channels, drains, ditches and reserves at the side of any street shall be deemed to be part of the street;
erect any buildings upon the land so acquired or alter any existing buildings thereon; and
sell and dispose of such land, houses or buildings with such stipulations and conditions as to the class and description of houses or buildings to be erected on the land as he thinks fit.