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intimated that, with the view of getting rid of the
unsightliness of the vacant land in Rosebery Avenue,
the Marquis Northampton would be willing to sell
to the County Council sufficient land adjoining such
plots to make them marketable, the Council were so
informed, but they replied that they have no power
to purchase other land for the purpose, but that the
question of the utilization of the ground is receiving
close attention. When this reply was reported to
to the Vestry, they passed a resolution that, in
their opinion, it is desirable that the Council should
obtain powers to acquire land adjoining the vacant
plots in Rosebery Avenue.
A letter was subsequently sent to the Council,
calling attention to the disgraceful and dilapidated
and unsafe condition of the house at the corner of
the Farringdon Road and Rosebery Avenue, which
had the doorway and windows strutted up, and
urging that, in the interest of the public safety, the
house be either pulled down or safely shored up ;
and also urging upon the Council to at once deal
with the unsightly and insanitary vacant places in
the Avenue, and asking them to receive a deputation
from the Vestry upon this subject, and also urging
that the land should be submitted to public auction.
In September a letter was read from the Council
stating that at present they do not deem it
expedient to apply for Parliamentary powers to
purchase land in Rosebery Avenue with the view to
making the existing plots more marketable.
Dr. Blake, L.C.C. also attended a meeting of the
Vestry, and made a statement upon the subject, to
the effect that the Council had just let the site at
the corner of Rosebery Avenue and St. John Street
Road, that a Weights and Measures office was to be
erected upon part of the land between Tysoe Street