Section 25

The cost of constructing and maintaining any footway proposed to be made under the powers given in this section, as well as the cost of setting back any such erection as aforesaid, shall be borne by the local authority and the notice or notices required to be given shall contain a specification of the work required to be done and the materials to be used and an offer by the local authority to pay such sum as may be specified therein as being the cost of carrying out such work.

Who to execute work

On receipt of the notice the owner or owners may either execute the work as regards their respective frontages or require the local authority to do so, and, where any owner executing such work fails to complete the work within the time specified in the notice, the local authority may enter upon his land and carry out the work.

Plan to be delivered

In every case where a footway is made under this section, the local authority shall deliver to each owner of the land a plan showing the land taken for such footway and a statement to the effect that the land has been taken under this section for use as a public footway, subject nevertheless to the right of each owner and his successors in title at any time to build in such manner and to such extent as he would have been entitled to build if the land had not been taken for use as a public footway.

Local authority may put up lamp posts and lamps