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stating that on their recommendation and subject to the conditions
laid down in the leaflet U.G.C. 26, the Minister of Labour had
approved this authority's application for assistance towards the
cost of reconstruction works in twenty-two streets for a grant from
the Exchequer Fund as follows :—
Seventy-five per cent, of the interest and sinking fund
charges on the loan not exceeding £18,348 raised to meet
approved expenditure for the first half (up to fifteen years)
of the loan period, and 37½ per cent, of interest and sinking
fund charges for the remainder (up to fifteen years) of the loan
period.
A condition of the grant was that the work should be actively
commenced not later than April 7th, 1931, and completed within
three months of commencement, and if the work could not be
commenced by the due date the Unemployment Grants Committee
were to be informed of the reason at least two weeks before that
date.
Formal application was then made to the London County
Council for sanction to a loan for the sum of £18,348, to be repaid
in five years.
In due course a letter was received from the London County
Council giving sanction to the borrowing of the sum mentioned,
such sum to be repaid by yearly, half-yearly or quarterly instalments
of principal and interest combined, within five years from
the date of borrowing.
St. Giles' Parish Churchyard.
During the year the Council have had under consideration the,
question of the neglected state of this Churchyard, and in this connection
have had before them a proposal submitted by Councillor
Bateman during his Mayoralty, that the Council should take over
the Churchyard under the Open Spaces Act, 1906, the land to be laid
out as a Public Garden for the quiet enjoyment of the people.
Councillor Bateman had issued an appeal to residents of Camberwell
and also to people of affluence and charitable societies in the hope
that such appeal might bring some financial assistance to convert
the Churchyard into an Open Space, but he did not receive the
response anticipated. He had, however, received an intimation
that the London County Council would consider contributing
£1,000 towards the cost of the scheme, which, on the estimates
submitted by the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association,
amounted to approximately £6,000.
The Council first considered the matter at their meeting on
June 18th, 1930, and then expressed themselves in sympathy with
the Mayor's endeavour to remove the existing state of dilapidation
into which the Churchyard had fallen, and without going into the
question as to who would be responsible for the upkeep of the