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property in the Old Kent Road between Aberdour Street and Waleran
Buildings, but transfers to St. George's a block of property to the
west of Crosby Row, and to the south of Long Lane as far as Staple
Street.
boundary between newington, lambeth, and camberwell.
The Public Inquiry in reference to the boundaries of the new
Borough (including those of the parishes of St. George the Martyr,
Christchurch, St. Saviour, and Newington) took place at the Vestry
Hall, Walworth Road, on the 29th and 30th November, 1899.
The Vestry were represented by the Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith,
Q.C., M.P., and Mr. Corrie Grant, and other counsel appeared for
the various parishes concerned.
The principal points raised at the Inquiry were with regard (a) to
the boundary between this parish and Lambeth, and (b) to the alteration
of the boundary between the parishes of Lambeth, Camberwell,
and Newington. It was understood up to the last moment that the
Vestry of Lambeth had agreed with the Vestry of St. George's as to
the boundary along Gray Street, Tower Street, King Edward Street,
Kennington Road, and Brook Street, but the Assistant-Commissioner
was informed at the Inquiry that the Vestry of Lambeth had, by a
majority of one, refused to agree to the Scheme relating to a portion
of the property in Brook street being transferred. The Commissioners
have, however, since decided that this should be included in the new
Borough.
With regard to the extensive scheme proposed by the three
southern parishes, it was suggested that an area known as the Warrior
Road area, having a rateable value of £4,354, and a population of
1,330, should be transferred from Lambeth to Newington, and a
further area known as the Wyndham Road area, having a rateable
value of £27,000, with a population of over 9,500, and an area of 43
acres, should be transferred from Camberwell to Newington. This huge
transfer of property would have involved the new Borough in an extensive
and costly scheme for the removal of an insanitary area, and
the re-housing of the persons displaced, and have very largely increased
the size, rateable value, and population of the parish of Newington.
It would also have considerably tended to increase the number