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£800 for the freehold, subject to your Board erecting a wall in continuation of the existing wall
at Bull Head Dock, and of a similar height, which is about 20 feet,m and also subject to your
Board erecting a dwarf wall with wood palings on same along the Rotherhithe Street
frontage-our clients to be at liberty to use the wall between Bull Head Dock and their property
as a party wall"
Resolved—That the offer be not entertained.
Rotherhithe Street (by princes Dock)
On 16th June, 1896, the General Purposes and Works Committee reported with
reference to a letter received from Messrs. C. Crough & Co., of Princes Dock, Rotherhithe
Street, staling they were about to rebuild their wall at Princes Dock, enquiring
whether the Vestry would entertain a proposal to set the same back for a few feet
to as to give more room for the traffic; having met Mr. Crouch at Princes Dock, who
offered to set the wall back a distance of four feel, subject to the Vestry paying £50 and
building a new wall. The Committee thought it advisable to seize every opportunity of
effecting an improvement in the width of Rotherhithe Street, and
Recommended—That the Vestry offer Meters. C. Crouch St Co. the sum of £50
compensation on their pulling down the existing wall of Princes Dock fronting Rotherhithe
Street, and building a new wall a distance of four feet behind the line of the old wall at their
own expense, and giving up the land between the line of the old wall and the line of the
Proposed new wall Vestry, to be merged into the public roadway.
The Clerk reported receipt of a Utter dated 15th June, 1890, from Messrs. Crouch A Co.
in reply to the Vestry letter conveying the terms of the Committee's recommendation,
stating that if the Vestry increased their offer to £05, and allowed them to put up a wood
??? they would be prepared to accept the tame and start the work at once.
Resolved-(Mr. Vice Chairman Bisley: Mr. Buhner)—That the recommendation of the
Committee approved with the exception that the Vestry's offer be raised to £65, that sum
to include the ??? and ??? interests in the portion of ground proposed to be thrown
into the public way, and that no objective be offered to the Proposed continuetion of the
??? ??? at the Permises in lien of the erection of a wall.