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(?)) A certain amount of property fronting Provost Street.
(4) A certain amount of property fronting Nile Street.
The Council also intimated that they were not prepared to include the timber
vard of Messrs. Gould in their scheme, as they would approve of the width of the
new street without it.
The Vestry's Housing Committee, after considering the Council's suggested
modifications, were still of opinion that the Vestry's scheme was preferable, and
they instructed the Medical Officer and the Surveyor (M!r. Eve) to wait upon the
Council's Surveyor and Medical Officer with a view to inducing the Council to
modify their requirements so as to bring them more into conformity with the
Vestry's ideas.
Subsequently, after further negociations, the Council approved of the scheme
as settled by the Vestry, the proposed roadway between Britannia Street and City
Road being omitted. The public house in Provost Street was not intended to be
included in the Vestry's scheme.
I then proceeded to prepare and serve the owners and occupiers with notices in
accordance with the requirements of the Housing of the Working Classes Act. The
whole of this work was undertaken by my department, with a little temporary
assistance from Mr. C. Webster as an enquiry officer.
The preparation of the Statutory Declarations of Service was also undertaken
by my department, and in this heavy and responsible work I have received most
valuable assistance from Mr. Clarke and Mr. Milne.
During the period these negociations were taking place with the London
County Council, the Vestry's Surveyor (Mr. Eve) had been in communication with
several of the owners of property on the area, with a view to purchasing the
property by private treaty and avoiding the cost and delay of submitting the
question of compensation to arbitration, and he has reported the result of his
negociations to the Committee from time to time The suggested amounts required
by owners have been carefully compared with the Surveyor's Valuations, and the
(committee are negociating with the view of making the best terms for the parish,
and have instructed Mr. Eve to discuss each case with the valuer of the London
County Council.
I think it should also be reported to the Vestry that the whole of the freehold
estate in the area has been claimed by the Trustees of Mrs. Hannah Cox, the
present representative of the Mogg family, and this may necessitate the Vestry
paying the purchase money into Court.
A local inquiry by the Local Government Board, which was duly advertised
in the local press and by placards on the area, was held at the Town Hall on the
22nil February, 1893, by Mr. Samuel Joseph Smith, C.fcj., one of the Board's