The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-01 00:00:00

DOCK EXTENSION AND IMPROVEMENT.

The CHAIRMAN said the next business was the report
of the special sub-committee appointed to consider the
arrangements necessary for dock extension and improve-
ment.

➢ir. GEEGSON remarked that it was the wish of the
committee that no discussion should take place on the
subject at present.
The CHAIRMAN suggested that no discussion should
take place this week, but that the consideration of the
question would come on next week.
Mr. MASON, the secretary, then read the following
report :

" The special sub-committee appointed on the 12th
January, 1854, to consider and arrange plans of dock im-
provement and extension, and to report thereon to the
general committee, having, at numerous meetings held
for the purpose, had before them plans of the dock estate,
and taken into consideration various documents and sug-
gestions referred to them by the general committee, as
well as the representations made by deputations from
several important mercantile bodies, beg leave to report
that the testimony of all parties, however differing in the
mode of accomplishing it, alike concurs as to the imme-
diate urgency of having enlarged accommodation provided
in every department for the increasing commerce of the
port.

" For such objects, therefore, the attention of the sub-
committee was naturally directed, in the first instance,
to the Harrington estate, but it was found that that
valuable possession could not be made further available
while occupied, as at present, by the timber trade ; and
on examining, next in order, the site on the north shore,
with the present parliamentary boundary of the dock es-
tate, it was evident that, if restricted by the blocks of
land now in process of formation for the Earl of Derby,
the space would be insufficient for the great purposes re-
quired, and that in order to provide the ample accommo-
dation which is so imperatively demanded, it would be-
come of the utmost importance to secure a large additional
quantity of land, extending eastward from the blocks be-
fore alluded to, as far as the Derby-road, and to provide
for a second communication with the Leeds and Liverpp.l
Canal. Negotiations were therefore entered into with
the Earl of Derby and J. Shaw Leigh, Esr
the subcom-
mittee which have
resulted in an agreement on the part o
to purchase from the Earl of Derby the blocks of
land before referred to for the sum
kind
lying to the eastward
Mr. Leigh the two parcels of of 490,000, and from
of tht Saucival Duck gad grams dixko, thQ

now unoccupied eastward of the Iluskisson Dock, for the
sum of 2164,209, subject to the approval of the general
and of the Town Council, within a limited
---liamentary powers being obtained for
e same into effect.

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" The-sub-committee also recommend that power should
be- taken: in the proposed bill to-enable the Dock Com-
mittee to acquire the land lying between' the aforesaid
Inm:chase-from the Earl of Derby and-the Derby-road, and
also-a few small pieces dividing Mr. Leigh's land, or which
may be otherwise necessary to the arrangement.
" Thelma:titles and computed prices of the said land
are,. as-far as practicable, contained in an appendix, and
winch the, sub-committee beg may- be taken as part of
their report, and the sub-committee, for more precision,
submit' thereupon a plan of dock extension. It shows—

A large•north dock of
A dock south of the preceding
The -entrance basin
With the 600 feet entrance lock which has
already received the sanction of the
committee

general

A. YDS.
52 3216
18 3611
5 3406

A long eastward dock in three compartments
A.dock south-west of the Huskisson Dock
Two docks,ou the land purchased from Mr. Leigh 28

25 1001
9 2829
2420

140 1963
" The-sub-committee also having regard to the impor-
tance of graving docks for steam-ships of'the largest size,
and of concentrating work appertaining to them as much
as possible in one locality, have provided -five graving
docks, to- be constructed on the present storing ground
east of the Huskisson Dock.
" The entrance of such floating docks will bees follows :
—One lock and two passages of those docks. will be 100
feet in width, one 80 feet, and two 70 feet each, and the
whole of the remaining communication will be 60 feet in
width.. The lineal yards of graving dock will be 1000
yards. It is proposed to lay out the land between the
north and east docks as follows :—Quay,.3so feet wide ;
timber or other yards, 500 feet deep; street, 60 feet wide;
and to appropriate the land on the east side of-the eastern
dock to meet the numerous applications which have been
received for yards and other conveniences requiring water
frontage and quay space, distinct from the accommodation
hitherto within the capacity of the Dock Committee to
afford; though intimately connected with the facilities
required by the general trade of the port.
It is expected, also, that the land west of the large
north dock will provide extensive accommodation for
shipbuilders, who, though so essential to the interests of
this-great maritime community, have almost been excluded
from consideration for many years past.