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the President of the Local Government Board, and pointed out the necessity
of providing work, especially in the building trade, after the war, and asked
the Government to provide .£20,000,000 towards the erection of houses; to
their views Mr. Long is said to have given a sympathetic reply.
BUSH HILL PARK.
On the 18th April, a deputation presented a petition, signed by 128
residents, expressing a hope that the Council would not permit the triangle
of land south-west of the station to be built on, especially for shops, and
that the opportunity would be taken of securing the site in perpetuity, so
that in the future, as in the present, that area may retain its name as " a
garden city." Residents were willing to give £100 towards the cost.
In September, the plan—No. 3,178—was disapproved.
THE CORNISH ESTATE -Plan No. 3157.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall, Edmonton,
London, N.
14th March, 1916.
To the Chairman and Members, Plans' Committee,
Town Hall, Edmonton.
Gentlemen,
I am unable to approve of the six houses proposed to be erected by Mr.
J. F. Turner, for Councillor W. D. Cornish, in Delhi Road.
I said in a previous letter to your Committee, dated 11th March, 1914,
with reference to Plan No. 3062 : " That my approval or disapproval of any
plans that come before me, is not limited by the question as to whether the
said plans show houses which are in accordance with the local Building Byelaws
or not. In the drafting of these bye-laws, your Medical Officer has,
up to now, had no share, and has, therefore, no responsibility as to their
execution by builders or speculators; but I have to give you and the Council
an honest opinion as to whether I think the plan of a house is acceptable from
a public health point of view, and in the interests of ' the Edmonton of the
future."
This plan—3062—is a plan that well shows the possibility of overcrowding
dwellings on a limited area, and it is antagonistic to the hope we
entertain of Edmonton being planned on wise and healthy lines.
I also object to the back passages; I do so from the experience connected
with these long, dark and narrow ways which already exist in some parts
of Edmonton. The passages shown in this plan will, in a short time, become
like the others, viz., an annoyance, nuisance and danger to the health, not