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site of Nos. 66 and 68, High Street, and the conveyance of a strip
of Nos. 58 to 64, is in hand. This land will in due course be added
to the public way. The Company have also conveyed to the
Council a piece of land in Cooper's Arms Lane required for widening
that thoroughfare and the paving works in connection with
this part of the improvement are in hand.
Lower
Richmond
Road, Putney,
Improvement.
134.—The Highways Committee of the Council have for
some time had under consideration the subject of
the inconvenience and danger arising from the inadequate
width of Lower Richmond Road, Putney, and a general
scheme for widening the road as opportunities occur has been
approved. The Council upon the recommendation of the Committee
has decided to proceed with the most urgent part of the
improvement at once. The estimated cost is £5,830, towards
which the London County Council has ben asked to contribute
but has not yet agreed to do so. In the meantime certain properties
required for the widening have been purchased. It is
proposed to pave the carriageway with wood when the improvement
has been effected.
High Street,
Wandsworth,
and St. Ann's
Hill, Widening.
135.—The purchase of the projecting part of the National
School premises on the eastern side of St. Ann's
Hill, has been completed and the land added to the
public way and paved. The question of the disposal
of the surplus land at the corner of High Street and on the
western side of St. Ann's Hill has been deferred for the present.
West Hill
Improvement.
136.—On the Council coming into office in November, 1900,
certain cottages on the northern side of West Hill
which had been purchased by the late District Board
in 1896-7 with the view of widening the road were transferred to
the Council. This improvement has from time to time been under
consideration chiefly in connection with various projects of the
London County Council to construct a line of tramways or light
railways from Clapham to Kingston Vale, and as the several
schemes were successively dropped the widening was deferred in
anticipation of the next proposal. The last of these tramway
schemes was withdrawn in the early part of 1902 and the Borough
Council then decided to itself proceed with the improvement
subject to a satisfactory contribution towards the cost being made