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At the Vestry's meeting on the 5th January, a
letter was read from the Home Secretary, stating
that on the 30th October, 1886, he approved a
scheme for re-housing the displaced artizans, and
that he has received no application from the Metropolitan
Board of Works to be relieved of the
obligations to erect dwellings for persons of the
working classes in connection with this scheme.
The Vestry forwarded a copy of this letter to the
Metropolitan Board of Works with a request that
they would concur in the action taken by the
Vestry. In reply, a letter was received from the
Board, stating that they had made an application
to the Home Secretary on the subject, and have
received permission to proceed with the improvement
upon certain conditions approved by him.
These conditions were, that the Board were to
serve notices to treat, provided they undertook to
maintain the houses occupied by the labouring
classes in a condition fit for occupation, and to
permit them to be occupied on change of tenants
until the new dwellings in sections 1 and 2
respectively were completed fit for occupation.
Coldbath Fields Prison Site.—Resuming
the statement of the proceedings of the Vestry on
the question of the disposal of this site after the
25th March, 1887, they now beg to report that at
their meeting on the 19th May, the following correspondence
between the Metropolitan Board of
Works and the Home Secretary relative to a
portion of the site being appropriated as an open
space, was read :—
Spring Gardens,
21th January, 1887.
Sir,
The Works and General Purposes Committee have under their
consideration Memorials which have been referred to them by the
Board, from the Vestry of Clerkenwell and the Holborn District
Board of Works, drawing attention to the contemplated removal of