View report page

23
POND YARD.
The Paving and General Purposes Committee have had'
before them on several occasions a proposal by Mr. A. Waterman,
on behalf of Mr. N. Fortescue, a contractor and wharfinger, for
the stopping up and discontinuance of the right of way through
Pond Yard, Bankside, and an offer on his part to pay the Board
£100 if the Board would apply to the Court of Quarter Sessions
for the necessary order for so doing. In reply, the Committee
instructed the Surveyor to inform Mr. Waterman that, in the
event of his client undertaking to make the suggested application
they would recommend the Board to give its consent thereto,
subject to the payment of the sum of 100 as proposed. Mr.
Waterman consented to the amended terms, and thereupon the
Committee, believing the place to be a nuisance and the right of
way of very little use, recommended the Board to accede to the
proposal and give Mr. Waterman its assistance in support of the
application. The matter came before the Board on the 26th
June, and the recommendation of the Committee was unanimously
adopted. Subsequently, however, a memorial was received from:
owners of property in the locality objecting to the proposal, and
expressing their intention to oppose any application to the
Justices for stopping up the right of way; the matter was referred
back to the Committee for further consideration, and on the
20th July, they reported as follows:—
"REPORT OF THE PAVING AND GENERAL PURPOSES
COMMITTEE.
"We have carefully considered the memorial respecting the
proposed termination of the right of way through Pond Yard.
"The earliest record of the Board respecting Pond, Yard is
dated 1856, and is as follows:—
" 'Pond Yard is private property, used only by foot passengers, the
tenants of the adjoining property claiming and using the carriageway.'
"It is in close proximity and runs parallel to Emerson Street,,
its average distance being 31 yards from that street.
"The portion to be closed extends from Skin Market Place
to Bankside and over this distance are distributed three irregular
and disconnected pieces of foot paving which the Board have
kept in repair. One of these, about 20 feet long by 3 feet 6 ins.
wide, is situated on the west side of the carriage-way, and the
other two, which are 40 feet and 60 feet long respectively, and
vary in width from 4 feet to 2 feet 6 inches wide, are on the east
side thereof.