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Metropolitan one, but offered to make up the road if the
London County Council would pay the cost of the work.
The Council, however, decided that the improvement
would not be of such general advantage to London as to
justify the Council in bearing the whole of the cost, and
nothing further has been done in the matter.
Site for Board School,
Streatham Hill.
The School Board for London having
scheduled No. 72, Streatham Hill (Arborfield), as a
site for a new school, the Board appointed a deputation
to wait upon the School Board, objecting thereto, on the
ground that-it was unsuitable and dangerous for the children
who would attend the school, and they suggested
the Artizans' &c., Dwellings Company's estate as a more
suitable situation for the proposed school. The deputation
attended before the School Board and presented
a memorial in support of the Board's views, and the
proposal to acquire the site objected to was subsequently
abandoned.
Proposed transfer
of Streatham to
Schedule A.
The Vestry of Streatham, having appointed
a Committee to consider and
report upon the desirability and effect of transferring
the parish of Streatham, either solely or in combination
with some other parish or district, from Schedule B to
Schedule A of the Metropolis Local Management Act,
the Committee asked the Board to allow the Clerk to
assist the Committee in their enquiry. The Board, however,
passed a resolution disapproving of any proposal
to separate the parish of Streatham from the district of
the Board.
Combined
Drainage.
The memorial presented to the London
County Council by the Conference of Representatives of
Vestries and District Boards, to which reference was
made in the last report, was considered by the Main