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Vestry did not deem it necessary to make their former
annual visitation of the premises. No opposition was
raised to the renewal of any of the licenses at the hearing
of applications by the Council on the 24th October.
Local Drainage
Works.
Several matters connected with the local
drainage engaged the attention of the Works
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and Sanitary Committees of the Vestry during the year.
Taken alphabetically in order of street, an application by
Mr.W.Cooke for permission to lay down a 12-inch drain at
the rear of Ambrosden Avenue for the drainage of proposed
residential flats was at first refused, the building
owners being informed that the Vestry would require a
sufficient sewer to be constructed in the Avenue. On the
application being amended in deference to the wishes of
the Vestry, the plans were approved, and the proposed
drainage sanctioned, subject to the surrender by the applicant
of ten feet into the thoroughfare of Ashley Place.
A further application by Mr. Cooke to lay 420 feet of
12-inch pipe sewer in Ambrosden Avenue, with three manholes
100 feet apart, was also acceded to on condition that
the proposed sewer was ventilated by shafts to be carried
up the fronts of the houses intended to be drained by the
sewer. A public sewer with approved ventilation was
thus provided for, and a street widening of ten feet
effected, without cost to the parish.
Upon an application by Messrs. Clutton for sanction to a
combined system of drainage to Nos. 1 to 9, Buckingham
Cottages, the Vestry required each house to be drained separately,
a public sewer being within the prescribed distance.
An application by the secretary of the Shrewsbury and
Talbot Cab Company, for permission to drain their premises
in Earl Street, brought to the notice of the Vestry that
there was no sewer in that street, the drainage passing
through other premises into Page Street. This defect was
remedied by the construction of 112 feet of 12 inch sewer