Comments on: The Hill Tower, or Lewis’s Folly, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands. https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-hill-tower-or-lewiss-folly-sutton-coldfield-west-midlands/ Rambles to, and ramblings about, Follies and Garden and Landscape Ornament. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 20:46:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-hill-tower-or-lewiss-folly-sutton-coldfield-west-midlands/#comment-26122 Sun, 23 Aug 2026 20:46:07 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=17910#comment-26122 In reply to Rob Wheeler.

Hello Rob. Many thanks for this extra information

]]> By: Rob Wheeler https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-hill-tower-or-lewiss-folly-sutton-coldfield-west-midlands/#comment-26121 Sun, 23 Aug 2026 17:43:18 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=17910#comment-26121 The building application, with plans, that you showed was a common requirement within areas of Urban Sanitary Authorities, who had been given powers to require them under an Act of 1858. Survival of such applications is more patchy. For more information, see https://www.thesurveyoflincoln.co.uk/Projects/cityba/regulation
Town Planning, as now understood, only came in under an Act of 1909.

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