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The following applications for the erection and drainage of new houses and buildings
have also been received and plans checked and approved
Number
of
Notices.
Number
of
Houses.
Additions
to
Houses.
Warehouses
and other
Buildings.
Total Number
of New
Buildings.
38
149
8
9
166
A length of 114 feet of 12 inch pipe has been laid from the sewer in Kenning's
Buildings, Swan Lane, up to St. Mary's Place, Church Street, to take the drainage
of the said place, in lieu of an old drain which had become defective.
A public urinal has been erected in Rotherhithe Street, near the "Swallow
Galley" P.H., upon a piece of ground belonging to the Surrey Commercial Dock
Company, under an agreement for the Vestry to pay the Company a nominal rent of
one shilling per annum for the ground occupied by the urinal.
The Vestry sanctioned the laying by the leaseholder and builder of the property
in the new street called Ilderton-road, Rotherhithe New-road, of a pipe sewer in the
said road, subject to the payment by the applicant of 4 per cent. upon the cost of the
works, to defray the establishment charges of the Vestry in respect of the same.
Paving Works.
The following materials have been used in repairing the roads during the year
ending 25th March, 1882, viz.:
Broken Guernsey Granite 267 cubic yards
Gravel and Hoggin 311 „
Slop and Snow carted 8,765 loads
XA ater for watering roads 7,463 van loads
Cartage of materials 1,380 loads
Broken Stone 125 „
Sifted Stone from Paving works 1,176 „
Hard Core 89 „
The paving of the site of the widening of Church Street and Paradise Street at
the Metropolitan Improvement has been carried out at a cost of £171 14s. l1d.
The new streets named Suffolk Street, Reed Street, and Canute Street, Deptford
Old Lower Road, have been properly made up and paved under a contract with
Messrs. John Mowlem & Co., at a cost as follows, viz.:
Suffolk Street £307
Reed Street 119
Canute Street 1ll