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52
Tothill Fields
Prison site.
Having in view the proposed continuation of
Howick Place across the site of the late Tothill
Fields Prison into the Vauxhall Bridge Road, suggested
in the memorial presented to the Council in June, the Vestry,
in the following month, had occasion to call the attention
of the Council to the intended erection of houses upon that
part of the site which was comprised in the scheme, with
a request that their approval should be withheld until a
decision had been arrived at upon the memorial of the Vestry.
A somewhat curious correspondence followed. Although
the Army and Navy Co-operative and Auxiliary Societies
about the same time, in urging the desirability of forming
a now thoroughfare from flowick Place to Ashley Place,
made reference to the impending commencement of building
operations, tho superintending architect replied (16th July)
that there was no proposal before the Council to build upon
the sito in question, and that immediately any application
was received, the Vestry would be informed of the same
in the usual way. Building operations were actually in
progress at tho time. The architect was accordingly informed
that the promised intimation had not been received,
notwithstanding that extensive excavations were being
made. The same letter also forwarded copy of a memorial
received by the Vestry, numerously signed by owners and
occupiers of property in Victoria Street, Ashley Place,
Morpeth Terrace, and tho vicinity of the vacant site, in
favour of the proposed widening of the roadway leading
from Howick Place to Ashley Place. On the 2nd August
the Council transmitted copies of the letters from the Army
and Navy Co-operative Societies referred to above, with
an intimation that tho Societies had been informed that
tho matter was one for the consideration of tho Vestry.
It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to remark that the particular
improvement desired by the Societies progressed no
further. Finally the Council, by letter dated the 9th