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Wandsworth 1903

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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widenings and in November the County Council deposited a
Parliamentary plan shewing the following proposed tramways and
street widenings, viz.:—
(a) Tramway No. 7 (double line, 2 miles 4.25 chains in length) from
East Hill, Wandsworth, at a point 1½ chains east of Geraldine
Road, passing along East Hill, Wandsworth Common North
Side, Battersea Rise, and Clapham Common North Side to
Clapham Common South Side terminating by a junction with
the existing tramway there at a point three chains north-east
of The Grove.
(b) Tramway No. 8 (double line, 1 furlong 3.10 chains in length) from
the existing tramway in Streatham High Road opposite the Tate
Public Library, passing along Streatham High Road and terminating
one chain north of Gleneldon Road.
(c) Tramway No. 8a (single line, 2 furlongs 0.25 chains in length)
mencing by a junction with the proposed tramway No. 8,
passing along Gleneldon Road, Bournevale Road, and Stanthorpe
Road, and terminating in Streatham High Road by a junction
with the proposed tramway No. 8e.
(d) Tramway No. 8b (single line, 1 furlong 2.5 chains in length) commencing
in Streatham High Road by a junction with proposed
tramway No. 8, passing along Streatham High Road and terminating
in that road by a junction with the proposed tramway
No. 8c.
(e) Tramway No. 8c (double line, 1 mile 2 chains in length) commencing
in Streatham High Road by a junction with the proposed tramways
Nos. 8a and 8b at a point half a chain south of Stanthorpe
Road, passing along Streatham High Road to the county
boundary at Norbury.
(f) Widenings at East Hill and North Side.
(g) Widenings at Streatham High Road, Sunnyhill Road, Gleneldon
Road, Bournevale Road, and Stanthorpe Road.
(h) Empowering the London County Council to alter level of Streatham
High Road at the London Brighton, and South Coast Railway
bridge.
(i) Empowering the London County Council to acquire by compulsion
or agreement land in Jews' Row, Wandsworth and to erect car
sheds, etc., thereon.
(k) Empowering the London County Council to use a strip of land
forming part of Wandsworth Common for widening Wandsworth
Common North Side.