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public way is in hand. The estimated cost of this supplemental
improvement is £3,000. The Council has decided to erect a
public bath-house on part of the surplus land.
North Street
and Rectory
Grove,
Clapham,
Widening.
124.—The proceedings for the acquisition of the remaining
properties required for this improvement have been
concluded, the Council having now come to terms
with all the owners. Arrangements are being made
for the removal of the projecting walls and buildings, and the
Council trusts to be able to complete the improvement very
shortly.
Mitcham Road,
Tooting-,
Widening.
125.—As opportunities occurred the late District Board of
Works and the Council have from time to time
secured the widening of parts of Mitcham Road,
Tooting, the London County Council agreeing in most cases to
pay one-half the cost. The County Council having in contemplation
the construction of a tramway from Tooting Broadway to
Tooting Junction Railway Station suggested that the road should
be widened to 54 feet throughout at an estimated cost of £44,700
and asked this Council to pay one-third the cost. The Borough
Council was willing to consent to the proposed tramway, subject
to the usual conditions, but was of opinion that having regard to
the importance of the thoroughfare it should be widened to not
less than 60 feet throughout, and the Council forwarded to the
London County Council a plan prepared by the Surveyor for the
Eastern District showing how this width could be obtained at
considerably less cost than the above-mentioned estimate, the
total estimated cost of carrying out this plan being £16,636,
including the cost of widenings already effected. The County
Council adopted the Borough Council's plan and agreed to contribute
two-thirds of the nett cost, subject to the contribution
being limited to £11,091. The Borough Council is now taking
steps to acquire the necessary property.
Tooting High
Street,
Widening.
126.—The purchases of the properties required for the widening
of Tooting High Street, between the Castle
public-house and Defoe Road, have been completed,
and the owners are now re-building their premises to the new line,
part of the arrangement being that they should be allowed to carry
on their businesses in the front portions of their old buildings