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IMPROVEMENTS.
Messrs. Good and Son having made an offer to set back their
new Ropery No. 591, Commercial Road, Ratcliff, so as to line with
the existing premises at the East and West ends, and to give up the
Piece of ground in front of same without payment, and a letter
having been received from the clerk to the Mercers' Company, the
freeholders of the property, to the effect that the Company were
willing to give up the piece of land in question, to be used as part
of the public thoroughfare, the Board accepted the offer, and have
thrown the same into the public footway, and paved it.
A similar arrangement was also made with Messrs. Good and
Son to set hack the line of frontage of the new boundary wall, so
as to line with the premises on the North and South sides thereof,
at the rear, in Belgrave Street, of their premises No. 591, Commercial
Road, Ratcliff; and the Mercers' Company having consented thereto,
the surplus piece of land has been thrown into the public footway,
and paved by the Board.
The carriageway st the north end of Here Street, Ratcliff, has
been widened so as to allow two vehicles to pass at a time, and to
prevent vehicles damaging the footway.
The Hoard having been informed that the Police authorities
were about to erect a new station in Birchfield Street, within this
district, negociations were entered into with the Receiver of Police
for the new boundary wall, at the corner of Amoy Place and Birchfield
Street, to be set back to correspond with the building line at
the north end of the Street, and the Receiver agreed to surrender
the piece of ground required to be thrown into the public-way, upon
payment of a sum of £50. The land in question being partly in
this District and partly in Poplar, the Board resolved to carry out
the improvement if the Poplar District Board would pay one half
the consideration money, and one-half the cost of altering the roads
and footpath when the boundary wall was set back, and the Poplar
Board agreed to this arrangement. The Home Secretary subsequently
sanctioned the conveyance, by the Receiver of Police, of the land
required for the improvement, and the matter will now be completed
in due course.
The premises No. 107, Three Colt Street, Limehouse, having
been damage by fire, negociations were entered into by the Board
with the owner thereof, for the purpose of setting back the lino of
frontage to line with the fronts of the existing houses adjoining
thereto. The Board agreed to give the sum of £30 for the surplus
land, and the conveyance having been completed, the same was
thrown into the public footway and paved by the Board.