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Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Act, 1875, and on which
large blocks of model dwellings had been erected by the
Peabody Trustees.
In connection with this improvement a thoroughfare has
been made at the end of Robert's Place, Bowling Green
Lane, into the Peartree Court area.
Rawstorne Place.—Another thoroughfare has been
made, in connection with the erection of Artizans' Dwellings
in Rawstorne Place, by the Brewers' Company making an
opening into Buxton Street
London Government Bill, 1884.—This Bill, alluded to
in the last Report, was introduced into the House of
Commons just before the Easter recess, but it made little
progress afterwards. The second reading was taken early
in July, and during the debate on the 8th of that month
a motion for adjournment of the debate was made which
was rejected by 188 to 117. The Government then expressed
themselves satisfied with the vote as an expression
of opinion, and the debate was adjourned, not again to be
resumed, for on the 10th July the Bill was abandoned.
The main features of the Bill, so far as they affected the
Yestries and District Boards, were that district councils
should take their place, which district councils were to have
only such powers as should be delegated to them by the
Central or Supreme Council, the officers being appointed by
the Central Council.
The Bill was unanimously condemned by the local
authorities for this and other reasons. This Yestry, acting
in accordance with the general feeling of the Metropolis,
authorised the Clerk to prepare, and cause to be presented,
the following Petition to Parliament:—