HC Deb 30 July 1883 vol 282 cc956-7
MR. FRANCIS BUXTON

asked the Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, Whether it is the intention of the Board of Works to construct a roadway through the Peel Grove Burial Ground in Bethnal Green; and, if so, under what powers the Board propose to take this step?

SIR JAMES M'GAREL-HOGG

Sir, I am happy to assure the hon. Member that the Board has no intention whatever to construct a road through the burial ground in question. An application under the Building Act was made to the Board a short time ago for approval of a plan of such a road, but the Board was of opinion that the appropriation for building purposes of a burial ground, where human remains have been interred in large numbers, should be opposed by every possible means, and the application was accordingly refused.