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Petitioners' Parish alone there are about 858 empty
houses with a Rateable value of £21,493, which inflicts
a very heavy loss on the Ratepayers.
THAT your Petitioners appointed a Special Committee
to consider how best to give effect to the
following resolution:—
"That in the opinion of this Vestry the time
has now arrived when better road accommodation
should be provided to connect East Dulwich with
the more populous parts of the Parish."
THAT on the 27 th March last, the Special
Committee reported to your Petitioners as follows:—
"That your Committee having viewed and
carefully considered the various routes at present
leading to East Dulwich, are of opinion that the
best would be that now proposed, commencing at
the Old Kent Road, by the 'Lord Nelson,' thence
by the Trafalgar and Sumner Roads, crossing High
Street, Peckham, through Victoria Road, Bellenden
Road, Adys Road to Goose Green, with a spur to
East Dulwich Station (London, Brighton, and
South Coast Railway), by extending Bellenden
Road through vacant land to Placquett Road.
"Your Committee have been much assisted by
the labours of the previous Committee appointed
to consider this matter, and have received much
valuable help from the Surveyor, showing that a
good thoroughfare from the Old Kent Road to St.