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Borrett Road Adoption.—This thoroughfare was adopted by the
Vestry as a parish highway on the 29th May 1895, the owners
having completed the road and footways to the satisfaction of the
Surveyor.
Clock Passage, Hampton Street.—Upon the receipt of an application
from the Trustees of the Copyhold Charity Estates to make a
permanent or temporary footway in front of the new almshouses in
Clock Passage to enable the aged and infirm inmates to approach
them with safety, the Roads and Depot Committee reported as follows
on the 13th November 1895:—
Your Committee have made inquiries of Mr. Yates as to his intention
with regard to the hoarding on the opposite side of the passage,
and Mr. Yates has replied that he is prepared to give up the undedicated
land, upon the Vestry taking over and making up the
road and footway free of cost.
The widening of Clock Passage, it will no doubt he remembered, formed
part of the Crampton Street Improvement scheme, but the London
County Council rejected this part of the plan, stating that the widening
could be dealt with when application was made by the builder to form
a new road; and as the owners on both sides of the passage have ret
back their building line 20 feet from the centre of the old court with
the knowledge of the District Surveyor and the non-intervention of
the London County Council, the owners can if they like now enclose
the ground in front of their property by a post-and-rail fence.
Mr. Yates however has expressed himself willing to give up the
ground in front of the new houses, if the Vestry will pave a footway