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COLLINGWOOD STREET, BLACKFRIARS ROAD.
Plans having been submitted for the re-building of the
"Prince Albert" public house, Blackfriars Road, the Board
called the attention of the London County Council to the
desirability of an improvement being effected by the setting back
of the lateral frontage of the same in Collingwood Street, and a
deputation, headed by Mr. R. W. Bowers, J.P., waited upon
the Building Act Committee of the Council on the subject.
Negotiations ensued, and ultimately arrangements were made
b\ the Surveyor of the Board with Messrs. Eedle & Meyers, the
Architects to the proprietors of the new building, for the setting
back of the line of frontage in Collingwood Street, so as to give
a uniform width to that portion of the street of twenty feet,
measured from the boundary wall of Christ Churchyard, the
Board paying the costs of amended drawings, fees, &c., and
supporting the amended application to the Licensing Justices,
such fees, &c., being settled at fifty guineas. The improvement
has been completed and the sum paid over.
TAXATION OF LAND VALUES.
On receipt of a circular-letter from the Vestry of Battersea,
asking the Board to appoint representatives to attend a Conference
on the Proposed taxation of land values, the Board
appointed Mr. H. Puxty and Mr. E. Tiplady to act as its delegates.
The Conference took place at the Municipal Buildings,
Lavender Hill, S.W., on the 1st March, 1900, and the following
Resolutions were passed, viz.:—
1. That this Conference urges the Government as a
first step towards the taxation of land values, to bring in a
Bill forthwith, for the separate valuation of all land, apart
from buildings, and other improvements, such valuation to
be the basis of such taxation as may be imposed upon land
values, for Local or National purposes.
2. That this Conference is of opinion that ground
values should bear their fair share of Local as well as
Imperial taxation.
3. That the occupier should have the same statutory
right to deduct such land tax on the rent as he now has to
deduct Income Tax under Schedule "A."
4. That this Conference heartily approves of the
principle of the Bill promoted by the Corporation of Glasgow,
to obtain for Burghs in Scotland the power to tax land