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The premises, No. 39. Narrow Street, being about to be
sold by auction. I was instructed by the Board to make a report
as to the value thereof, with a view to the acquisition of the
same for the further improvement of the thoroughfare. The
sale has not yet taken place.
PROPOSED NEW street from broad street to
brook street.
In consequence of the receipt of a letter from the London
County Council with respect to the disposal of the vacant land
acquired under the Brook Street Improvement Scheme, and
asking the opinion of the Board as to the utilisation of the same
for the purposes of an open space, I was requested to prepare a
plan for the formation of a new thoroughfare from Broad Street
to Brook Street, through the Orchard and a portion of the
vacant land referred to. 1 prepared a plan accordingly, and the
Board approved the same and directed that the Council be
informed that they would be prepared to carry out the improvement
if the Council would contribute one half the cost, and also
Out they were of opinion that it would not be advisible to
devote the land in question to the purposes of an open space,
bat that it should be utilised as a site for cottage dwellings.
The reply of the Council was laid before the Board on the
6th February last, and was to the effect that the Council were of
opinion that the amount of through traffic which would
pass along the new street would not be sufficient to justify
outlay from the County Funds and that the improvement
was one of a local character, which, if undertaken, should
be carried out by the local Authority. The letter further
stated that the requirements of the traffic in the neighbourhood
of Brook Street and Broad Street might be 50 altered after the
provision of some additional means of communication across the
Thames there, that the Council would hesitate to contribute at
that time to any improvement in the locality, and that the ques-
tion of the disposal of the vacant land referred to was still under
consideration.