Bull & Bride Alley Improvement
20 Jan 1900The important improvement scheme in connection with the district known as the Bride alley Area, and about beginning which some delay has taken place., owing to the requisition by Lord Iveagh of the adjoining property, has now been finally entered; importantly by the Corporation. The entire of this district, sometimes referred to as the Poddle Valley urea, is a most insanitary one, owing to the fact that an underground river, the river Poddle, flows through it.
This river ran under the old houses and some of its branches: were unknown. “The course of the river is now being diverted for part, of its length, so that it will not run under any of the new houses to be built, by the Corporation and the work in connection with the foundations and drainage of the new streets is ‘already in progress. All the sewers now running” into the Poddle will be dealt with under the Main Drainage scheme and will no longer discharge into it, so that this river will become a comparatively clean stream. This work of dealing with the Poddle and the old sewers is a very troublesome and tedious one and has necessarily delayed considerably the carrying-out of tho more constructive part of the scheme.
As soon, ‘however, as it is somewhat farther advanced tho Corporation hope to be in a position to start upon the building of some, at least, of the proposed new houses. The new building plan, which was substituted for the previous one on Lord Iveagh’s decision last year to carry out an improvement scheme on the adjoining the Bull alley—area, provides for the construction of twenty-nine block buildings ,-containing accommodation for 210 families, of-whom 112 will be housed in three-roomed Hats, and 98 in two bedroomed flats.
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