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the proposed new Cambridge Road and the circular road from West to East
be left in abeyance, until such time as the Government scheme has assumed
a more definite shape.
On June 25th, at the instance of the Borough of Yeovil, my Council
unanimously passed the following resolution:—"That this Council is of
opinion that it is desirable that the Housing Acts should be amended so as to
enable Local Authorities to borrow money from the Public Works Loan
Commissioners for the construction of streets for the same period as is at present
allowed for land, viz. 80 years ; and that the rate of interest should be 3 per
cent., and that the Government be petitioned in favour of the same at the
earliest possible date."
At the meeting on November 27th, the Committee considered the joint
report of the officers setting up lines upon which a town planning scheme of
Edmonton might be prepared; a map of district was also presented. The
further consideration of this report and map was adjourned and the
Clerk instructed to prepare a town planning register for the entering therein
of all particulars obtainable as to the nature and tenure of the lands not built
on within the proposed town planning area, which only relates to that portion
of the district west of the Enfield high-level branch of the Great Eastern
Railway. Afterwards the Engineer prepared and presented a copy of this
map to each member of the Committee, marking thereon particulars showing
the approximate frontage and depth of each type of house from 8 to 20 per
acre.
At this meeting a circular letter from the Local Government Board
dated 6th September, was submitted, together with a copy of an Order making
the rules for fixing the scale of costs applicable on an arbitration under the
schedule of the Housing and Town Planning Act.
Overcrowding. During the investigations made by myself
and staff into the origin of infectious diseases, many cases of overcrowding
came to light. These I made personal inquiry into. It is usually caused
by a man with a family of his own, quite numerous enough to fill the
rooms intended for bedrooms, receiving a second family to assist in paying
the rent. In most cases, good advice, patiently given, and in the
remainder, an informal notice, proved sufficient to produce abatement.
Particulars of overcrowding, unconnected with infectious diseases, are to
be found in the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector.
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Estate is mainly in Tottenham, but partiy in Wood Green and Edmonton
Urban Districts. About 35 acres of it are in Edmonton. During 1912 a
London County Council Bill was presented to Parliament which, inter alia,