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No.notion was taken with regard to Improvement No. 2.
In February 1890, a letter was received from the County
Council as to the proposed Three Colt Street Improvement (No. 5)
stating that it had occurred to the Improvements Committee of the
Council that any additional accommodation which might Iks required
between the Commercial Road and Emmett Street, Poplar, could
better be provided by the construction of a new thoroughfare
between the West India Dock Road and Bridge Road, and asking
the opinion of the Board upon the point. The matter is
under consideration.
In February last the County Council informed the Board that
their Improvements Committee had made a report upon the subject
of the proposed widening of Broad Street, Ratcliff, (Improvement
No. 4) and the Council were of opinion that the suggested widening
could not be regarded as a Metropolitan Improvement, and were
not prepared to accede to the request of the Board.
In May 1889, I reminded the Board that many years previously
I had projected a plan for the improvement of Wapping Wall, and
suggested that, between Star Street and the bridge over the old
entrance to the London Dock, a new road should be constructed so
an to avoid interfering with several large warehouses which had been
erected on the north side of Wapping Wall, and I submitted a plan
shewing the proposed widening and improvement of Wapping Wall,
and the situation of the new street. The London Hydraulic
Power Company having purchased from the representatives of tinlate
Mr. Wagner, the houses in Wagner Place and the Cooperage
in the rear, and other property on the north side thereof for the
purpose of clearing the ground, and erecting a station for supplying
the necessary power for charging the mains which they proposed to
lay in the District, the Works Committee made an inspection of the
locality, and as directed by the Board I opened negotiations with
the Company as to the terms upon which they would be willing to
give up so much of the land in question as would be required for
the eastern portion of the proposed improvement.
The owner of gun Dock having determined to erect a warehouse
upon the site of the Dock, as the old frontage projected
into the street I was requested to negociate for the purchase of the
piece of land which would remain in front of the warehouse, when
the same was built. I accordingly had several interviews with the