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carry out the scheme, and that they had requested me to communicate
with the School Board and Messrs. Holt & Co., upon the
subject, so as to ascertain their views. The Committer also reported
that they had inspected Collingwood Street, and that I had laid
before them a plan showing a proposed widening of Collingwood
Street, by setting back the houses on the West side so a to from a
roadway sufficiently wide for two vehicles to pass at a time, and that
they had requested me to make an estimate of the probable cost
thereof. This road would form a direct thoroughfare from
Commercial Road through Stepney Causoway, and Collingwood
Street to Broad Street.
On the 11th February, at a Special Meeting of the Works
Committee, I submitted a plan of a proposed extension of Dorset
Street to Brook Street, and the formation of a thoroughfare in
continuation thereof from Cranford Street to Broad Street, and I
informed the Committee that 1 had communicated with the School
Board for London, and they had replied that they could not enter
tain an application to dispose of any part of their site. This
necessitated shifting the proposed new thoroughfare about 30 ft
further to the East. I explained the details of the scheme, and
stated that I estimated the coat of the acquisition of the various
properties required at the sum of £8,300.
The Committee at the same time considered the question of
widening Broad Street from Schoolhouse Lane, as far as No. 83,
Broad Street, a plan of which 1 submitted and the cost of which I
estimated at £l5,000. After careful consideration the Committee
resolved to recommend the Board to direct that a memorial and plan
be sent to the London County Council, asking them to carry out the
two schemes as a County Improvement, and that the Improvements
Committee of the Council be asked to receive a Deputation from the
Board for the purpose of fully discussing the facts and merits of the
case. The Board approved and adopted such recommendation.
COMMERCIAL ROAD, LIMEHOUSE.
On the 18th February, a letter was read from the London
County Council as to the proposed widening of Commercial Road at
Limehouse, as shown on the plan sent to the Council on the 22nd
January, 1890, and enquiring (1) whether a scheme for throwing
part of the land on the South side of the road into the public way
at an estimated cost of £2,000, as shewn upon the plan accompanying
the letter, would meet the necessities of the case; (2) whether