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9
IMPROVEMENTS.
One among the improvements now going on in this Parish
may be classed the London, Dover and Chatham Railway, the
works of which are fast progressing towards completion, and
which it may be reasonably expected will have a most beneficial
effect, in opening up the more rural parts of the Parish,
causing much additional traffic through it, and producing a
large extension of residences of a superior class to be erected,
and consequently enhancing the rateable value of the Parish
in those neighbourhoods.
I may here mention that an an tempt was made early in
the present Session of Parliament, to introduce a Bill for
creating a new District, to be called "The Crystal Palace
District," having for its object the severance from this Parish
of a large portion of the most valuable property in the neighbourhood
of the Crystal Palace; and as there appeared to be
no valid reason for such an innovation upon the rights of this
Parish, the Vestry determined upon giving a decided opposition
to the Bill in question, and every effort was made to prove the
utter inutility of the proposed measure, and I am happy to
say, with such unmistakeable success, that within a very
limited period the Bill was withdrawn. This locality, by reason
of the Railway above referred to, as well as of another
line, viz. the " Crystal Palace Direct Railway," which has
received the Royal Assent; as also by the gradual development
of the Dulwich College Governors' scheme for buildings
about to be erected on their property, bids fair to become a
valuable adjunct to this Parish; the plans, &c for the roads,
sewerage and buildings, on which property have been lately
laid before the Vestry for their approval.