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Powers are conferred on the Market Owners to greatly extend the
area of the Market, which will be necessary, if the hopes of the Owners
as to the effect of the intended Railway communication into the
Market are realized. By the Bill it was proposed that the short part
of Columbia Eoad, between the south-east side of the triangular piece
of enclosed vacant ground, and the property opposite proposed to be
taken, should be stopped up. It has been agreed that the triangular
piece of ground shall bo given to the Vestry, and that the road shall
be altered and formed as shown upon a plan agreed on by the
Promoters and the Vestry.
The usual rating and other usual clauses have been inserted in the
Bill; but the Promoters objected to insert a clause providing that the
assessment on the property to be taken should, when the works are
completed, not bo loss than the present assessment. The clause was
suggested because of the possibility of the extended Market being a
failure, whereby its rateable value might bo so diminished as to entail
serious loss to the Parish.
GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY GENERAL
POWERS BILL.
As far as this Parish is concerned, the Bill sought to revive expired,
and extend the times for exercising existing, powers. The Company
proposed merely to lengthen the arches carrying the existing linos
across Brady Street, Tapp Street, and Coventry Street; but agreed
ultimately that the bridges carrying the proposed widenings over those
streets shall be straight iron girder bridges, of the clear span and
height specified below :—
Streets. Spans. Headway over roadway.
Brady street 38 ft. 6 in. 13 ft. 0 in.
Tapp street 36 ft. 0 in. 12 ft. 0 in.
Coventry street 36 ft. 0 in. 10 ft. 6 in.
The widening of the girder bridge now crossing Cambridge Road will
also be by a straight iron girder bridge, with a span of 59 feet, and a
headway of 14 ft. 7 in.
The Railway Company are to pay to the Vestry the expense of
lowering the carriageway and footpaths of Tapp Street, so as to give
a clear headway under the bridge when constructed of 13 ft. 9 in., and
of making the necessary alterations to the approaches, and of paving
and making good the part of the street the level of which will be
altered.