A significant clearance of buildings in the Churchyard area occurred during 1870.

The plateau landscape is advantageous to real estate developers because they do not incur many expenses for clearance of building sites.

In the early nineteenth century the clearance of buildings from the Bull Ring allowed the concentration of the markets on the site.

This cleared up an inspection logjam that was impeding the opening of businesses, the issuance of certificates of occupancy and the clearance of buildings violations, the department says.