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forward. No further proposal having been made by the
County Council, a deputation, consisting of Mr. A. R.
Gridley, Rev. J. H. Anderson and Mr. Parker, attended
before the Improvements Committee of such
Council on the 17th July, in support of the withdrawal
of the condition respecting the consent of the
Board to the construction of a tramway or light
railway. The County Council then asked that consent
should be given to the construction at any future time
of a tramway along the portion of the road which was
proposed to be widened. This the Board declined to
give. The matter was afterwards taken up by this
Council in January, when the County Council was asked
to give its consent to the proposed improvement, and
to contribute two-thirds of the cost. The County
Council, however, declined to alter its conditions.
The Council has since informed the County Council,
that it is proposed to widen the portion of West Hill in
question to 60 feet, and that if the County Council will
contribute two-thirds of the cost of the widening, as in
the case of Garratt Lane, this Council will give its
formal consent to the construction of a tramway along
the portion of the road in question. The County
Council propose to construct a tramway from Clapham
to Kingston, and this widening may therefore be carried
out in connection with that scheme. In the meantime
those houses (ten in number) which have already been
purchased by this Council for the purpose of the improvement
have been pulled down and the public way so far
widened.
Streatham
Common.
The Parks and Open Spaces Committee of
the London County Council recommended
that Council to take steps to obtain the repeal or
amendment of the clause in the scheme, with respect to
Streatham Common, relating to the user by local clubs