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MAKING UP AND PAVING NEW STREETS.
The works in connection with the making up, paving, and
draining, &c., of Selsey Street and the making up, paving, draining
and erection of a concrete retaining wall at Tomlin Terrace, Limehouse,
have been carried out by the Board's contractors.
The coat of the work was as follows, viz.:—
Selsey Street £214 3 3
Tomlin Terrace £333 3 10
The above amounts were apportioned amongst and paid by the
owners of houses and premises in and abutting upon the said streets.
PROPOSED BIRCHFIELD STREET IMPROVEMENT.
A communication was received from the Poplar District Board
enquiring whether, having regard to the erection of the London and
County Bank premises at the corner of Birchfield Street and East
India Dock Koad. and the arrangement with that Board by which a
portion of the ground formerly enclosed by the wall of the house
No. 52, East India Dock Road was to he given up to form part of
the public footway, this Board would be disposed to co-operate with
the Poplar Board at the present time on the Wis of the Joint
Report of the Surveyor of the Poplar Board and myself, dated 15th
June, 1883, in extending the improvement as shewn upon the plan
attached to such Report. When the improvement was proposed in
1883, this Board resolved that in the event of the London and
County Banking Company waiving all compensation for the land
required for the improvement the subject matter be again considered.
It now appeared that a portion only of the lana required for the
improvement was proposed to be given up by the London and
County Bank and that it was not proposed to set back the frontage
of the Bank premises in Birchfield Street to the line shewn on the
plan accompanying the Joint Report of the Surveyors before referred
to, and it was consequently resolved that no action be taken in the
matter.
Subsequently the Poplar Board became possessed, by arrangement
with the London and County Banking Company, of a piece
of land at the northern end of Birchfield Street within the Limehouse
District. This was thrown into the public thoroughfare,
widening it to the extent of the Bank premises, and upon the
completion of the necessary works of forming the footpath and
paving the additional portion of the carriageway (at the expense of
the Poplar Board) this Board took the additional width under its
jurisdiction upon condition of the Poplar District Board undertaking
to widen and pave the remaining portion of the street upon the
expiration of the existing leases.