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11. Plans, estimate, and apportioned schedules of owners and
occupiers of a further extension of Newstead Road were also
prepared, and being approved by the Board, the work was
carried out by contract in a satisfactory manner.
Public Improvements.
12. The three new roads known as Lochaber Street, Abernathy
Street, and Rembrandt Road, upon the Firs Estate, High
Road, approved by the London County Council, have been laid
out and formed by the House Property and Investment Company)
in conformity with plans submitted and passed by the London
County Council, and new pipe sewers (as elsewhere detailed in
this report) have been laid and connected with the High Road
main sewer, and these roads are being rapidly built upon.
13. Negociations having been satisfactorily arranged with
the owners of the above estate, a great and long needed improvement
is now in course of completion by widening the High
Road next this estate, and as the roadway, previously an average
of 37 feet only in width; has now been increased to an
average of 50 feet, the convenience arising therefrom cannot fail
to be greatly appreciated by the public generally. The land
necessary for this improvement, about 5300 square feet or thereabouts,
in order to widen the road in question to an average
width of 50 feet, between Belgrave Villas and the Old Road
was purchased by the Board and the London County Council
conjointy from the House Property and Investment Company
Limited.
L-i. The extension of St. Mildred's Road from Birchgrove to
Hither Green Lane, a length of about 1700 feet, has been