HC Deb 02 February 1939 vol 343 c338

"to empower the Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of the borough of Sunderland to appropriate the open space known as the West Park to the purposes of a civic centre and to construct upon the West Park and lands adjacent thereto a town hall and municipal and other buildings and to acquire lands compulsorily for those purposes; to authorise the abolition of the Corporation's market at High Street East and to appropriate the site thereof for other purposes; to make further provision with regard to the health and good government of the borough; and for other purposes," presented, and read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time.