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A communication, under date 2nd September, was addressed to
the Local Government Board, on behalf of the Poplar Borough Council,
pointing out the unsuitability of the site in East Greenwich for rehousing
the persons to be displaced in Poplar, and submitting the following sites
in Poplar suitable for the purpose, viz.:—
Grove Hall Estate.
Eastward Street area and Violet Road.
Manchester Road (opposite No. 226).
,, ,, (Railway Station to " Lord Nelson ").
East Ferry Road (Fire Station to Railway).
Chapel House Street (West Ferry Road to East Ferry Road).
Kingsfield Street (Stebondale Street to Manchester Road).
Seyssell Street .
The Public Health and Housing Committee regretted that the Local
Government Board should have thought fit to express tentative approval
of the East Greenwich site before approaching the Borough Council in
the matter, and are strongly of opinion a vigorous protest should be made
against approval of that site for rehousing those dishoused in Poplar
Borough.
The numbers of persons to be displaced amount in Poplar Division
to about 700, and in Bow and Bromley to 658. Housing in East Greenwich
would not be available for these people, by reason of distance and
difficulty of access, and cannot be taken as being in any sense a compliance
with the decision of the Board, that a substantial part of the
accommodation to be provided should be in the neighbourhood of the
East and West India Docks.
The Committee recommended the Council that an emphatic protest
against the East Greenwich site being approved for rehousing the persons
to be displaced in Poplar be made to the Local Government Board.
The Local Government Board, however, decided to accept the scheme
of the London County Council for re-housing persons to be displaced by
School Extension Schemes in Poplar, on the sites in possession of the
Council, at Tunnel Avenue, East Greenwich, and the Public Health and
Housing Committee recommended that the Council do protest against
the decision of the Local Government Board in this matter, and representations
be made to the Board and the London County Council, urging
that at least some of the housing required should be provided on the site
possessed by the County Council at Blackwall.