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Council to undertake as County improvements the undermentioned
works, and to apply to Parliament for powers in
that behalf, if necessary:—
The embankment of the Thames from Victoria Tower
Garden to Vauxhall Bridge.
The widening of Great Smith Street and Marsham Street.
The formation of a new street in continuation of Earl
Street across the site of Millbank Prison to the
Grosvenor Road near Vauxhall Bridge.
The formation of a direct connection between Victoria
Street and Rochester Row by a new street from the
junction of Artillery Row and Old Rochester Row.
The widening of York Street from the Broadway to
James Street.
The continuation of Howick Place, across a corner of
the Tothill Fields Prison site and the vacant land by
the King's Scholars Pond Sewer, into Vauxhall
Bridge Road.
Of the first four proposals the Vestry have heard nothing.
With reference to the suggested widening of York Street
along its entire length, the matter was again brought up
upon the consideration of plans deposited on behalf of
Messrs. Brown Brothers, for the erection of blocks of new
buildings between Palmer Street and No. 98, York Street,
showing that the old frontage line was intended to be
retained, notwithstanding that the new buildings were proposed
to be carried seven storeys high. A letter was accordingly
addressed to the Council, suggesting that the building
owners should be required to set back the frontage line by
eight feet before the approval of plans showing buildings
exceeding to such an extent the height of the former houses.
On the 12th March, 1890, the Vestry received a letter from
the Council, refusing to undertake the improvement on the
ground " that York Street is sufficiently wide to meet the
"requirements of the traffic," an opinion with which no one
acquainted with the locality could be found to agree.
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