The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-07-19 00:00:00

*oadisros FIILD.

ihe next business was to consider a proposed re.
arrangement of the building frontage of the centre
plot iii Wollaston Field ; with this was an application
from Mr. G. J. G. Gregory for lots land 2,and the plots
for the proposed villas at the w. it end of the centre
plot, if thitamenderl plan be adopted I also an applica-
tion from Mr. W. Tilley for building plots IS and 19.
It will be rem mbered that according to the original
plan, the three rove of houses face the south ; and the
engestetion now is to turn the *nitre row so as to froot
the north, and the existing lower row of bowies.
Dr. A LDNIDGE ti. premated continual alterations of the
plan. The present owners and occupiers of the lower
row bad no ground of complaint, for them plots were
talfrn subject to the original plan. If the council had
contemplated erecting semi-detached viii.. iii the centre,
• better class of houses might have been bad where
the lower row now stand*.
The Maros said the committee thought the altera-
tion would improve the whole property. They must
estlsolt the public taste, and if they found another
style of hotpot met more Wroth- tH y should avail
themseltm of it, and not tie themselves to the origival
Idea.
Mr. briritirinti said it was no reflection on the Council
If they altered their plan by adopting • better one—
(hear, he.r.)
Dr. A LDRIDOIt asked whether the class of building
now proposed would let better than houses emote!
according to the original plan. He did rot think the
style of house. euggeskol was ...mud very much.
The MATUE remarked that already they bad an appli-
cation for two-filthe of the centre plot.
Alderman nALPIE said this matter had been agitated
for years ; it had been proposed to turn round the
centre plot fur the sake of the gentleman occupying the
lower row, and the result would be that those in the
upper row would bare the s gist of a line of back doors.
But two meetings ago Mr. AI& Poen Coombs proposed
a re-Arrangement of the centre plot, as now shown,
giving three pairs of villas, and, from what he aa• in
the newspapers, ft appeared to meet wail almost
demolitions !approval, It would produce the same
ground rents, give a better class of houses than
originally proposed, and they had now application for
two-fifths of the ground. By adopting tne amended
plan, they would provide for an intermediate class of
ocmpiera ; and he thought it would by of no use to
build a row of housed like the lower torraoe. He was
not at all interested in the matter himself, but he
thought it wou'd be an improvement, and he proposed
that the amended plan be adopted, and Mr. Gregory's
appliattion be acceded to, sobject to the plans for the
houses lobe bolt bring approved by the Council.
Mr. SLADE seconded the motion, and it was carried.
The consideratirm of Mr. W. Tilley's application was
barred by this resolution.

The ground rent of Mr. Gregory's plot is £l2, and
that of the two remaining in that row /...9 each.
A renewed .pulic.tion by Mr. Longman to open an
entrance into the new roadway of Wollaston fi.ld
the south•weat corner of his plot, and adjoining the
walks. was corsidered. Dr. ALDRIDGC Nought it would
be ohj.ctionalle, and Mr. Luce thought that Mr. Pope,
the lessee of he building plot opposite the prop .s.d
gateway, si,ould be consulted and his approval first
obtained. Focally the matter was referred to the General
Purprees nennii.t