View report page

33
to the burial ground, and in consideration of the representations
contained in the letters above referred to,
they objected to the proposal.
Proposed Site for
Board School,
Broomhill Road.
The School Board for London again
scheduled for the erection of a school
the site in Broomhill Road to which
reference was made in last year's report. The Board
were of opinion that the objections which they urged
against the proposal last year still existed, and they
therefore requested the Education Department to withhold
their consent to the proposed site. They also
communicated with the Members of Parliament for the
District and with the School Board on the subject, and
the proposal has since been abandoned.
Proposed
Recreation Ground,
Putney Bridge Road.
The Board have had under consideration
a scheme suggested by a meeting of ratepayers
of Wandsworth for the purchase
of about 20 acres of land in Putney Bridge Road, with
a frontage to the river Thames, as a recreation ground.
The land in question could be purchased for £31,300,
and the Board approved of the scheme, and agreed to
contribute £10,000 towards the total cost to be incurred
in purchasing and laying out the land, and in maintaining
the same as an open space. The London County
Council have been asked to take the necessary steps for
acquiring such land, and the matter is now under their
consideration.
Election of
Chairman of the
Board.
At the first Meeting of the Board after
the election of Members in June, 1897,
Mr. Benjamin Weir, J.P., was unanimously
re-elected Chairman for the year.