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In the case of Trinity "Wharf the Board received no communication from the Vestry until
some months after the approval had been given.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
FRANCIS J. S. HOPWOOD.
The Clerk to the Vestry of Rotherhithe,
Lower Road, S.E.
Town Hall, Rotherhithe, S.E.,
25th August, 1898.
Sir,
I am in receipt of your favour of 24th inst., in reply too mine of the 9th inst., stating that
the paragraph quoted from the Board's letter of the 6th inst. refers to the time when plans
of works on the foreshore of the River Thames are submitted to the Board for their statutory
approval, and that in the above matter the Board received no communication from the Vestry
until some months after the approval had been given.
This is perfectly true, and the reason is that the Vestry were not aware that works were
being erected in front of their property until the works had been completed, when they immediately
protested to the Conservators against the apparently high-handed way in which
they were being treated in the matter, but without result. They then applied, as you know,
to the Board, but again apparently without result.
The Vestry are of opinion that they are not being properly treated in this matter, inasmuch
as they had no opportunity given them in any shape or form of opposing the application
when the plans of the works were submitted to the Board for their statutory approval,
as they knew nothing about it, no notice having been given them of the proposed application,
and I am to enquire whether the omission of the service of a notice upon the Vestry
was an oversight on some one's part, or whether it is customary for the Board to deal with
applications for the construction of works on the foreshore of the river in front of property
abutting thereon without the sanction or cognisance of the owner thereof.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
JAMES J. STOKES,
Clerk to the Vestry,
The Assistant Secretary.,
(Fisheries and Harbour Department) Board of Trade,