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7th and 8th of March, when evidence against the scheme
was given by the Board and others. The Local Government
Board finally decided not to sanction the proposal.
Footpath at Wandsworth
Common and
Widening East Hill.
In the last annual report reference was
made to an application by the Authorities
of Magdalen College, Oxford, to stop up the footpath
between Magdalen Road and Wandsworth Common. The
matter then fell through owing to the refusal of the
Wandsworth Vestry to assent to the proposal. The
application was renewed this year, and after negotiations
an agreement was entered into between the College and
this Board, the former agreeing to widen the road in front
of the College property at the corner of East Hill,
Wandsworth Common, to 55 feet at East Hill and to
40 feet facing Wandsworth Common, upon the expiration
of the existing leases at Michaelmas, 1894; also to
preserve the trees now standing along the side of the
proposed extension of Lyford Road, and to build the
houses there with their fronts to the Common. The
Board undertook to set back the walls, &c., at East Hill
and Wandsworth Common and make up the road and
footpath there; and further, not to require the College to
form a footpath on the side of Lyford Road next the
Common, and not to prevent free access from the houses
there to the Common. The Wandsworth Vestry thereupon
consented to the stopping up of the footpath, and
the formal order therefor has since been made at Quarter
Sessions. The arrangement made with the College will
complete a great improvement at East Hill which the
Board commenced last year by arranging a give-and-take
line with the owner of the Bramblebury estate, by which
the portion of East Hill in front of that estate was made
of an uniform width of 55 feet.
Stopping up Streets
at Clapham.
An application having been received from
the solicitors to the Rector of Clapham for stopping up