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Somerset Place, Lower Road.
As instructed, the Surveyor prepared and submitted to the Vestry at their meeting on
7th March, 1895, a plan with reference to the setting back of the fence by Somerset Place,
embracing the houses in the Lower Road as far as the Public Paths and
Washhouses, and showing the footway widened to the line of the Workhouse wall to a
width of 12-ft. and with the view of either then or at some future time effecting an
improvement by widening the footway up to that spot.
It was Resolved—
(1) That the plan and line showing the footway from the Workhouse wall up
to the Baths widened to a width of 12 ft., be approved and adopted.
(2) That a plan of the improvement be forwarded to Messrs. Still & Sons, the
Solicitors to the freeholder, notifying them that the line as shown on the plan
has been approved and adopted by the Vestry, and asking that the line may be
taken into consideration as the leases of the property fall in.
(3) That the Clerk negotiate at once with the owners for the setting back of
the projecting wooden fence in front of the houses in Somerset Place, to a line
with the Workhouse wall, and widening the footway to the width shown on the
plan before mentioned.
On 18th February, 1896, the General Purposes and Works Committee reported that the
freeholder required the sum of £36, and the leaseholder the sum of £85 for their interests
in the strip of land in question.
Resolved, upon the recommendation of the Committee, that the matter stand over until
it be seen what action the St. Olave's Guardians propose to take in the matter of the
erection of a new Workhouse.