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Site for County Council Offices. —In June, 1893,
the Establishment Committee of the London
County Council recommended the Council to
acquire a site in Parliament Street for a County
Hall aud Offices for the sum of £750,000. The
Vestry unanimously decided that a strong protest
be made to the Council against so enormous an
expenditure, and that the Central Finsbury
representatives on the Council be requested to
oppose same. The Council, when it considered
the report, passed the following resolution thereon:—That
the Council in view of its resolution of
June 27th, instructing Committees not to bring up
during the present financial year (except in matters
of urgency) recommendations involving large
expenditure, is not at the present time prepared to
entertain this proposal for the purchase of a new
site for municipal buildings.
London Improvements Bill.—Reference to the
last Annual Report will show that the County
Council in this Bill proposed to take certain sites
in Rosebery Avenue for artizans' dwellings in
connection with the Strand Improvement, and the
plan deposited by the Council showed land in
Calthorpe Street and in Rosebery Avenue, between
Lloyd's Row and Rydon Crescent, upon which they
proposed to erect artizans' dwellings for persons
displaced by the proposed Strand Improvement.
The Council, however, resolved to withdraw the
provisions relating to the new street from Holborn
to the Strand, and the clauses relating to the
acquisition of sites for re-housing displaced persons
from the Bill.
Liquor Traffic (Local Control) Bill.—In April,
1893, a letter was received from the Holborn District
Board of Works, expressing the opinion that the