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82
London County Council
20th july, 1896
Sir
Referring to your letter of the 19th ultimo, forwarding, for the approval of the
Council the draft of a scheme for the improvement of the Fulford Street and
Braddon street area, I am directed to return the same to to you with certain sugges.
from marked in red ink thereon. I am at the same time to point out that it
appears to the Council that, having regard to the present condition of the houses
Not. 24-17 Braddon Street, the Vestry would not be able to include such houses in
the scheme. I am therefore to suggest that some modification of the scheme
should be made be which the proposed new street might be made in a direction at
right angles to that at present proposed, so that the house referred to might be
omitted. I am also to suggest that a narrow strip of land, say 9 inches wide,
should be left between the line of any new street that may be made and any
existing frontage to the wane, to that the right of frontage may be retained by the
local authority to include in a scheme under that pert any property which was not
dangerous or injurious to health: that it appeared from the Minutes of the Council the this
Resolve-That the be London County Council be respectfully requested to re-consider
the question of including the houses in question in the scheme in as much as the Vestry
desire to have be scheme carried cut in its entirety as in their opinion the exclusion of the