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plan showing the street widened by about 5½ ft. by setting back the frontages of the houses in
Rotherhithe Street from No. 158, up to Paxton's Alley, and that the Clerk had ascertained
from the Solicitors of the Owners of the property, they would require as compensation for
setting back the frontages as shown on the before-mentioned plan the sum of 1150.
Resolved—Upon the recommendation of the Committee,
(1) That the offer of the Solicitors of the Owners of the property to set back the
frontage line of Nos. 158, 160, 162 and 164 Rotherhithe Street, and tho
Royal Standard p.h., corner of Paxton's Alley, to the line as shown on
the plan submitted by the Surveyor, be accepted.
(2) That the improvement be carried out at once, and that the London County
Council be requested to make a contribution towards the cost thereof.
The Clerk was also instructed to ascertain the terms of the freeholder and leaseholder
of No. 168 Rotherhithe Street at the corner of Swan Lane, for the sale thereof to the Vestry:
And on 2nd July, 1895, the General Purposes and Works Committee reported that the
freeholder of No. 168 and the five adjoining houses was a Mr. Roffway, of 27 Blackheath
Road, S.E., and the leaseholder a Mr. J. Ayres, of 70 Wyngate Street, E C., the latter
holding the six houses on lease for an unexpired term of 60 years, at a ground rent of
£22 for the whole ; that No. 168, the house proposed to be purchased by the Vestry, was let
at 9s. per week, landlord paying taxes; that the freeholder apportioned the sum of i.'.» as the
ground rent thereof, and upon that basis asked 40 years' purchase, viz., £200, for his interest,
which amount the Committee thought excessive; that the leaseholder upon the same basis
asked £164 for his interest, which the Committee thought reasonable, and having power to
act, they had Resolved—
(1) That subject to coming to terms with the freeholder, the oiler of Mr. Ayres to
sell his leasehold interest in No. 168 Rotherhithe Street for the sum of
£164, be accepted.
(2) That Mr. Roffway's offer to sell his freehold interest in No. 168 Rotherhithe
Street being in their opinion excessive, the Vestry offer Mr. Roffway the
sum of £150, being at the rate of 30 years' purchase for his freehold
interest.
This was approved by the Vestry.