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scale to be 25 inches to the mile and showing the roads and sewers. The
map, mounted on holland and with oak case, was obtained in May, and
cost £26 2s.
The second meeting was held on December 11th, 1911, and at this
meeting the map was on view. The buildings erected since 1894 were
depicted in red, the main sewers in thick red lines, the Council's properties
green, and the reservoirs of the Metropolitan Water Board in blue. The
Engineer, Architect, and Medical Officer of Health were instructed to
consider and prepare a scheme to be submitted to the Committee at their
next meeting.
In November, the Local Government Board issued a most useful
memorandum giving particulars of the operation of the Housing and
Town Planning Act, 1909, and of the results achieved under it, and the
Working Classes Acts as amended by that Act.
A Town Planning Conference in London was held on April 24th
and 25th, 1912, at which Councillors Platten, Cadman, Cull, and Bethell
represented Edmonton.
During 1912-13 Councillor Cadman was chairman of this important
Committee. A meeting was held on the 29th May, when a joint report
was submitted from the Architect, Engineer, and Medical Officer of
Health on the preparation of a town-planning scheme. This
report stated that, since the last meeting of the Committee
several Conferences had been held in different parts of the
country on the subject, and there appeared to be some doubt as to the best
and correct way of working and carrying out the Act, that fourteen Councils
had applied to the Local Government Board for permission to prepare a plan,
and four of them had got the necessary assent; further, that perhaps it would
he advisable to have a scheme quietly thought out, so that your Council
would, when necessary, be in a position to present a scheme to the Local
Government Board. The report further referred to the two proposed new
roads running North and South and East and West through this District, and
it was suggested that, in designing a town plan, the basis on which the Council
would have to work would be for the proposed main arteries to be on the
lines of these two main roads, as no doubt if they were constructed they
would be the proper basis to work upon ; but the difficulty that presented
itself was that there was no probability of these roads being carried out within
the next few years by the Government, and the Officers therefore recommended
the Committee to draw up a plan dealing with the several areas in
the district with a view to limiting the number of houses per acre to be built
thereon, that the lines of the proposed new roads suggested might be shown on
the plan and as far as practicable, one or two main arteries might be suggested
to the Local Government Board, so far as they relate to the linking up of the
existing highways; and the question of linking up the existing main roads to