Proposed Improvements between the Queen’s Palace and the New Houses of Parliament by James Dean, lithographed by Arrowsmith and published by Hansard for the House of Commons London 1846. On paper size 82 by 34 cm. The map covers an area of London from the Thames north to the Palace via Grosvenor Place and St. Peter’s Church by way of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Tothill Street and Petty France, the Palace and the Queen’s stables. The map includes plans for a road that would link a new bridge over the Thames straight to the west of the Palace and run between Westminster Prison and St. Margaret’s Chapel and a new carriage road to the Palace beside St. James’s Park. In a letter to the Metropolitan Railway Commissioners who were tasked by Parliament with drawing up a report on the future planning of London’s railways, Dean said: “I believe the universal feeling to be in favour of the removal of Westminster Bridge not merely because it is an ugly nuisance but because of the recurring expenses of its repair… From the Palace a new line of road is proposed to meet the Chelsea Road which leads to another new line of road and the proposed suspension bridge over the Thames in connection with the Royal Albert Park in Battersea Fields …there exists the greatest necessity for forming new streets between the Queen's Palace and the Houses of Parliament not only to improve the communication but likewise to improve the drainage and sewerage of the district which I of my own knowledge know to be as bad as the worst parts of Spitalfields or Bethnel Green and that too within a few yards of the Queen's Palace. It is therefore a duty which the government and Parliament owe to our beloved sovereign in the country that such a state of things shall no longer continue than is avoidable.” Some contemporary hand-colouring and age toning. Has been folded.