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Roads will be formed on each side of the open space; two of these
will be new streets, and two will consist of widenings of Tabard
Street and Pardoner Street. The road on the north side of the open
space will be continued in an easterly direction so as to provide
through communication between Long Lane and Tabard Street.
Staple Street will be widened, and Globe Street will also be widened
between Tabard Street and Violet Place. On the detached
(southern) portion of the Tabard Street area, Little Hunter Street,
Tabard Street, Law Street and Lansdowne Place, will be widened,
and the last mentioned thoroughfare will be continued to meet
Little Hunter Street. On the Grotto Place area a new road will be
constructed so as to form a continuation of Lant Street and emerging
into Great Suffolk Street at King's Court, about 50 yards north of
Sturge Street. On the Crosby Row area, Crosby Row and Snowsfields
will be widened within the limits of the area, and a new road
will be formed from Crosby Row on the site of Porlock Place. All
the new streets will be made 40 feet wide and the existing roads,
where widened, will be made of the same width
The gross cost of the scheme is estimated at £473,300, and the
net cost, after deducting the estimated value of the surplus lands and
rehousing sites, at £387,700. The erection of new dwellings to
accommodate. 2,450 persons as proposed will involve additional
expenditure approximately estimated at £116,375.
The date fixed for the holding of the Local Government Board
inquiry into the scheme was 26th April, 1911."