View report page

31
Memorialists refer you, and which, in their opinion, renders further
argument here unnecessary.
Your Memorialists therefore respectfully urge that the London
County Council will be pleased to take all the facts into their
serious consideration, and to receive a .Deputation in support of
the same.
And your Memorialists will ever pray,
Sealed with the Common Seal of the Vestry.
By Order of the Board of the 23rd May, 1889,
ROBEET PAGET,
Vestry Clerk.
The following reply uas received from the
Council:—
London County Council,
Spring Gardens, S.W.,
25th June, 1889.
Sir,
The Improvements Committee have had before them your
letters of the 27th ultimo, and 17th inst., asking that a Deputation
from the Vestry of Clerkenwell may be received by the
Council, with reference to the width of the new street from
Clerkenwell Road to Islington, and the desirability of the work
being pushed on with as little delay as possible, and transmitting
a memorial on the subject.
In reply, the Committee have directed me to acquaint you, for
the information of the Vestry, that the Council has determined,
if it can be done at a moderate cost, that an increased width of
ten feet shall be provided between Laystall Street and Coldbath
Square, and I am to add that the Secretary of State, with whom
the Council has been in communication in reference to the question
of re-housing the labouring classes displaced, has signified his
approval of such increased width. With regard to the works of
the improvement, I am to state that all possible despatch is being
used in the preparation of the plans for the construction of the
Viaduct, and that the Vestry may be assured that no avoidable
delay will take place in the carrying out of the improvement.
Under these circumstances I am to suggest that the Vestry
may perhaps think it unnecessary to send a deputation, but should.