The Case for Further Strand Improvement. Edited by Mark H.
Judge. (Williams and Norgate. Is. net.)—Our readers will be .interested in learning how this matter stands. The London County Council at their meeting of March 20th rejected without a division the proposition to reconsider the line of the proposed thoroughfare. The estimate of the cost made by the Council is • £350,000,—i.e., the thoroughfare, as altered, would take in addi- tional land of this value. Estimates, as we all know, are made to order,—did not a landowner the other day claim for land taken by a tramway company £21,000, and get £700? In this matter the case stands thus. The Council has accepted £55,000 for 123,350 sq. ft. The area affected by the proposed change is 12,560 sq. ft. It should be worth, therefore, not much more than £5,000. Capitalise this at thirty years' purchase, and we get £ 150,000. As our readers know, we are very strongly of opinion that the greatest of modern street improvements in London should not be marred by the refusal to adopt a more generous alignment for the new buildings.
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