Universities and College Estates Act 1925

PART I Improvements for which a University or College may borrow or apply capital money

(i)

Drainage, including the straightening, widening, or deepening of drains, streams, and watercourses :

(ii)

Bridges :

(iii)

Irrigation; warping :

(iv)

Drains, pipes, and machinery for supply and distribution of sewage as manure:

(v)

Embanking or weiring from a river or lake, or from the sea, or a tidal water :

(vi)

Groynes; sea walls; defences against water :

(vii)

Inclosing; straightening of fences; re-division of fields :

(viii)

Reclamation; dry warping :

(ix)

Farm roads; private roads; roads or streets in villages or towns :

(x)

Clearing; trenching; planting :

(xi)

Cottages for labourers, farm-servants, and artisans, employed on the land or not:

(xii)

Farmhouses, offices, and outbuildings, and other buildings for farm purposes :

(xiii)

Saw-mills, scutch-mills, and other mills, water-wheels, engine-houses, and kilns, which will increase the value of the land belonging to the university or college for agricultural purposes or as woodland or otherwise :

(xiv)

Reservoirs, tanks, conduits, watercourses, pipes, wells, ponds, shafts, dams, weirs, sluices, and other works and machinery for supply and distribution of water for agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes," or for domestic or other consumption :

(xv)

Tramways; railways; canals; docks ;

(xvi)

Jetties, piers, and landing places . on rivers, lakes, the sea, or tidal waters, for facilitating transport of persons and of agricultural stock and produce, and of manure and other things required for agricultural purposes, and of minerals, and of things required for mining purposes :

(xvii)

Markets and market-places :

(xviii)

Streets, roads, paths, squares, gardens, or other open spaces for the use, gratuitously or on payment, of the public or of individuals, or for dedication to the public, the same being necessary or proper in connexion with the conversion of land into building land :

(xix)

Sewers, drains, watercourses, pipe-making, fencing, paving, brick-making, tile-making, and other works necessary or proper in connexion with any of the objects aforesaid :

(xx)

Trial pits for mines, and other preliminary works necessary or proper in connexion with development of mines :

(xxi)

Additions to or alterations in buildings reasonably necessary or proper to enable the same to be let:

(xxii)

Erection of buildings in substitution for buildings within an urban sanitary district taken by a local or other public authority, or for buildings taken under compulsory powers, but so that no more money be expended than the amount received for the buildings taken and the site thereof :

(xxiii)

Residential houses for land or mineral agents, managers, clerks, bailiffs, woodmen, gamekeepers and other persons employed on land belonging to the university or college, or in connexion with the management or development thereof :

(xxiv)

Any offices, workshops and other buildings of a permanent nature required in connexion with the management or development of land belonging to the university or college :

(xxv)

The erection and building of dwelling-houses, shops, buildings for religious, educational, literary, scientific, or public purposes, market places, market houses, places of amusement and entertainment, gasworks, electric light or power works, or any other works necessary or proper in connexion with the development of the land belonging to the university or college as a building estate :

(xxvi)

Restoration or reconstruction of buildings damaged or destroyed by dry rot :

(xxvii)

Structural additions to or alterations in buildings reasonably required, whether the buildings are intended to be let or not, or are already let:

(xxviii)

Boring for water and other preliminary works in connexion therewith.

(xxix)

Reconstruction, enlargement or improvement of any of the works authorised by this Schedule.