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same street, namely, Seymour Street. It is fully recognised how undesirable it will
be to leave at the angle of Grafton Place and Churchway the present narrow
foot-passage into Euston Road, and how equally undesirable it would be to close
it, and that the only satisfactory solution will be to make a proper roadway at this
point from Churchway into Euston Road. The London County Council has
declined to take this course, but the Yestry will doubtless so amend and improve
the Scheme of the Council if it is reasonably possible.
Brantome Place and Prospect Ttrrace Areas.—In consequence of the Local
Government Board requiring the Vestry to furnish copies of amended scheme and
plan showing among other things additional lands to be acquired for the purpose
of re-housing displaced persons, to the number of 372, who will not be accommodated
on the Brantome Place and Prospect Terrace areas which are to be
cleared, the Vestry, on the 21st December, 1898, were furnished with particulars
of sites, namely:—
Early Mews, Equity Buildings, Harrison Street, Wakefield Mews, Greenland
Place, Elm Road, Great College Street Stone Yard, Camden Street, Rochester
Place, Leighton Road, Cromer Street, Georgiana Street Stone Yard, and Purchese
Street.
And later on with particulars of further sites, namely:—
Vacant land on the south side of Cromer Street belonging to the London
School Board; the St. Pancras Iron Works Company's premises in the Pancras
Road; and vacant land and the premises numbered 18 to 30 (even numbers), in
King's Road.
On the 28th June, 1899, the Vestry resolved that the site at present used as a
Stone Yard at the corner of Great College Street and King's Road, with the
outbuildings and urinal thereon, and also the two houses 2 and 4, Great College
Street, is a site eligible for the erection of dwellings for the re-housing of persons
displaced by the Vestry's schemes under Part II. of the Housing of the Working
Classes Act, 1890, and that this site be devoted to that purpose. That the necessary
additional plans and revised estimates of the schemes be prepared.
East of Chalton Street Area.—On the 15th November the Health Committee
reported to the Vestry that, pursuant to reference, they had considered a communication
from the Local Government Board stating that they had under consideration
a Report made by their Inspector, Mr. Law, after the Inquiry held by him in June
with reference to the petition presented by the Vestry, under Part II. of the
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, for the issuing of orders sanctioning
these schemes.
The Board pointed out that they are satisfied from this Report that the
circumstances, as regards each area, are such as to require a scheme of reconstruction,
but they are advised that the alternative proposals which have been
forwarded by the London County Council with regard to the manner in which the
areas should be dealt with are, on the whole, so far as can be judged from the
particulars furnished, preferable to those of the Vestry, inasmuch as the Eastnor
Place area does not, in the opinion of the Board's advisers, afford a suitable site
for the reconstruction of new dwellings, while the scheme of the London County
Council for the reconstruction of the Chapel Grove area, provides for a better air
space about the dwellings proposed to be erected on that area than is provided for