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(a) On the west side of Coopers Arms Lane near Modder Place, containing
3,430 sqr. yds.
(b) On the west side of Bemish Road.
(c) Between Bigg's Row, March's Place, Worple Road and Lower
Richmond Road containing 12,363 sqr. yds.
This Council came to the conclusion that the property included in
the Hotham Road site and also that immediately adjoining was of
high rental value, and that the adjoining property would be seriously
depreciated by the erection of the proposed school there; that the
area of site (a) was not large enough, that site (b) being occupied by
and the property of a Brewery Company would be expensive to
procure, and that site (c) being situate in the neighbourhood in which
the children who would attend the proposed school reside should
be purchased for the proposed school which should face the
Lower Richmond Road, provision being made for re-housing the
persons displaced on the portion of the land fronting Worple Road.
As this Council had not agreed with the proposal to acquire Hotham
Road site, Mr. Claude Schuster was appointed by the Board of
Education to hold a Public Inquiry in order that such Board might be
satisfied whether the concurrence of this Council should or should not
be dispensed with. The Inquiry was held on the 28th and 31st
March, at which evidence was submitted on behalf of the Council and
residents at Putney in favour of the Lower Richmond Road site.
The Board of Education having considered the report of Mr. Schuster
decided that the concurrence of this Council might be dispensed with
and that a Provisional Order authorising the purchase of the Hotham
Road site might be properly issued. The Provisional Order was
accordingly made and included in the Education Board Provisional
Order Confirmation (London No. 2) Bill. The Bill has passed the
House of Lords and owing to the opposition of Sir H. Kimber, Bart.,
M.P. for Wandsworth, to the measure in the House of Commons, the
London County Council stated that if the Bill were allowed to become
law that Council would not exercise any powers over the lands
mentioned in it for one year from the passing of the Act and would
consider any suggestions for an alternative site which might during
that period be made to it.
21. The proposals of the County Council to acquire the following
sites for schools have also been considered by the Council, viz.:—
(1) On the north-western side of Greyhound Lane, south
west of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, and
containing about 87,120 square feet.