View report page

16
the Company are in a position to carry out their
Order.
For the Session of 1890, the Brush Electric
Engineering Company gave notice of their intention
to make application for a Provisional Order, and
the plans, &c., were duly submitted to the Vestry,
who fully considered them, and gave their formal
assent to the proposal, but in consequence of a
technical irregularity in the form of their notice,
the Board of Trade decided not to deal with their
application in the present Session.
Widening of Rosoman Street and Closing of
St. James' Buildings—In November, 1889, the
Vestry received a letter from Mr. Farrant, Deputy
Chairman and Managing Director of the Artizans',
Labourers' and General Dwellings' Company,
stating that the Company has taken on lease from
the Marquis of Northampton a piece of land about
an acre in extent, bounded by Rosoman Street,
Corporation Row, and Plumbers Place, and that it
is their intention to pull down the whole of the
houses standing on the ground, and to build, with
abundant provisions for air and light, and playgrounds,
blocks of dwellings for artizans, with
shops and basements along the frontage of Rosoman
Street, and proposing that the widening of Rosoman
Street should be effected by the land occupied by
St. James Buildings and the narrow passage leading
therefrom to Corporation Row, amounting to
3,472-ft. 7in., being given up by the Vestry in
exchange for the land marked blue on the plan
which he enclosed, and which measures 3,671-ft.
8in., which would increase the width of Rosoman
Street at the north end, from 17-ft. 8-in to 29-ft.
3-in.; at the centre, from 24-ft 10-in to 33-ft. 8-in;
and at the south end, from 28-ft. 4-in. to 40-ft. 1 -in,
thus increasing the width at the two ends by nearly
12-ft.