Catalogue description Hastings County Borough Council: deeds of covenant with respect to private drainage

This record is held by East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)

Details of dhcb/DH/C/15
Reference: dhcb/DH/C/15
Title: Hastings County Borough Council: deeds of covenant with respect to private drainage
Description:

The deeds were placed in rough alphabetical order of road or street name by the council sometime after 1937 and numbered from 1 to 288. There are three strays at the end of the series from Hastings Rural District Council for the areas of Guestling and Ore which were taken into the Hastings County Borough in 1938.

Date: 1900-1937
Held by: East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO), not available at The National Archives
Former reference in its original department: DH/C 15
Language: English
Administrative / biographical background:

Under the provisions of the Hastings Corporation Act 1900 and the council's by-laws in respect of new streets and buildings, covenants were entered into by the owners that the drains from their property to the public sewer were and shall remain private drains and that the local authority will have no responsibility for them.

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