United Kingdom House of Lords Decisions

This Order was promoted by the Corporation of Motherwell and the Corporation of Wishaw for the purpose of amalgamating the two burghs which adjoined and for the purpose of annexing to the new (combined) burgh six areas of ground from the county of Lanark extending to 341.5 acres, the extent of the existing burghs being 2258 acres. These areas were desired chiefly in connection with housing schemes being carried out by the burghs. The County Council of Lanark on behalf of itself and its Middle Ward District Committee opposed, not the amalgamation, but the extension. It maintained that a Provisional Order was unnecessary as everything required could have been obtained otherwise under general legislation and that its schemes of local administration, particularly with regard to water, would be prejudiced. During the inquiry parties came to an agreement whereby one small area was excluded from the proposed extension and the burgh was to pay the county £15,000, receiving therefor the whole mains, water-pipes, and apparatus of the District Committee in the areas annexed save through-going mains required for supplying water to more remote portions of the county. The Order included provisions as to stereotyping rates for ten years and otherwise as to rating.