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Clerkenwell Detached.—Last year's report
upon this subject closed with a statement that the
Vestry were again approaching the Friern Barnet
Local Board, with the view to their taking the
sewerage of Clerkenwell detached. That Board
however raised its terms from 1s. in the £ upon eht
rateable value, which it had previously provisionally
agreed upon, to 1s. 6d., and the Vestry therefore
did not feel that they could proceed farther in
such negociations.
Negociations continued at some length between
the London County Council, the Hornsey Local
Board, and the Vestry, and accordingly, in August,
the Vestry's Surveyor reported that he had furnished
to Mr. Meade, the Engineer of the Hornsey
Local Board, a plan of the outlying district on the
25-in. Ordnance Sheet, showing the positions of the
roads and the surface water drains, and read the
following letter, which he had received thereon:—
Hornsey Local Board,
Southwood Lane, Highgate, N.,
3lst August, 1891.
Dear Sir,
Re Drainage, Clerkenwell (Detached).
I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your favour of the 27th
inst., together with the Ordnance Sheets numbered respectively xii.
1 and xii. 5, on which are marked the approximate positions of new
roads, and certain blue lines indicating the positions of drains. It
will, however, be necessary to submit further information for the
consideration of my Board, viz., a survey to a larger scale, say at
least 44 feet to the inch, shewing the roads and the houses drained
by the dual system or otherwise, also the size, depth and inclination
of the sewers for the conveyance of storm water; and the size, depth,
and inclination of the sewers for the reception of sewage proper,
together with all manholes, gullies, ventilators, &c., in connection