Report, Improvements and town planning committee to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor : aldermen and commons of the city of London, in Common council assembled, on the preliminary draft proposals for post-war reconstruction in the city of London.

  • City of London (England). Court of Common Council.
Date:
1944
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    WILKINSON, Mayor. A Common Council holden in the Mansion House in the City of London, on Thursday, the 24th day of July, 1941. RESOLVED AND ORDERED, That the Improvements and Town Planning Committee be authorized to print and circulate their Report when ready, in regard to the redevelopment of the City, and they be instructed to take steps to see that their Report is circulated as a private and confidential document. REPORT—IMPROVEMENTS AND TOWN PLANNING COMMITTEE. To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled. We whose names are hereunto subscribed, of your Committee for Improvements and Town Planning, to whom on the 14th day of November, 1940, were referred for consideration the further steps necessary with reference to the preparation of a Scheme for the post-war planning of the City of London do CERTIFY that we have from time to time proceeded therein. In presenting the Preliminary Draft Reconstruction Plans for the City of London which, in obedience to your Reference to us, we have the honour to lay before your Honourable Court, we have thought it also desirable to give a résumé of the negotiations we have had and of the pressure we have persistently brought to bear on the Government Departments which, from time to time, have held the responsibility for Reconstruction matters. This résumé is contained in the Addendum, together with Appendices reprinting certain documents of outstanding importance. The task entrusted to us has received our unremitting attention; this Report will, we hope, indicate that we have not been inactive in carrying it out and have pursued a level course in the best interests of the whole City of London. We should mention that where there is peripheral interdependence between City and County, as for example in regard to through-routes and other related matters, there has been appropriate co-ordination between the City Engineer on our behalf and the Architect to the London County Council and that Authority’s Consultant. Our desire, in which we may be sure of the concurrence of your Honourable Court, is to see the return to the City at the earliest possible date of those businesses which have been displaced by enemy action, and to assist in every way within our power the rehabilitation of commerce within our walls. Our inability to give more detailed consideration to those desirous of proceeding with schemes and plans for the rebuilding of their places of business after the war for submission in due course to your Honourable Court has caused us serious concern, and our Officers continuous embarrassment from being unable to give the normal full assistance to those desirous of discussing the technical details necessary to such schemes. We hope, however, to be able at an early date, to consider any plans submitted for rebuilding or reconstruction [a]