Sheffield Independent – Thursday 01 March 1883

A Wombwell Property Owner Fined.

Yesterday, at the Barnsley Court House, before Mr. P. H. Taylor, Mr. Thomas Norton, Captain Vincent, and Colonel Neville, William Collier, property owner, of Wombwell, was charged with infringing the bye-laws of the Wombwell Local Board by allowing several newly erected cottages to be occupied without having received a Certificate from the surveyor.

John Robinson, clerk and surveyor to the Local Board, said on the 3rd February he visited several cottages in course of erection in Gower Street, Ship Croft, Wombwell, belonging to the defendant. He found one had been occupied and notwithstanding a warning, on the 5th Feb. defendant allowed three others to be tenanted, and had since let three others, so that in all seven blouses were now occupied. The conveniences were not built in accordance with the plans approved by the board, and unless they were altered be should have to proceed against him again.

The Bench fined defendant £2 10s and costs.