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Tramway
Extension
102. The Borough Council has again been in communication with
the County Council with regard to the suggested schemes
for the extension of the tramway system from Streatham
to Norbury, and from Clapham to Wandsworth. The Highways Committee
of the County Council propose to recommend that Council to
apply for powers to construct the suggested tramway from the present
Streatham terminus along Streatham High Road, with a loop line along
Gleneldon Road, Bournevale Road and Stanthorpe Road, to the County
boundary at Norbury, but have decided not to recommend the County
Council for the present to revive the suggestion for the construction of
a tramway from Clapham Common to East Hill, Wandsworth. The
County Council has been informed that the Borough Council regrets
the decision not to proceed with the scheme for the construction of a
tramway from Clapham Common to Wandsworth, and it has been
pointed out that the part of the thoroughfare in the Borough of
Battersea has already been widened in anticipation of the proposed
tramways, and that it is very desirable that tramways should be constructed
from Clapham via East Hill and High Street, Wandsworth,
to the junction of West Hill with Upper Richmond Road.
Lower
Richmond
Road
Widening
103. The Council having acquired the property on the northern
side of Lower Richmond Road required for this improvement,
the buildings have been removed and a
footpath formed there. In reply to this Council's
application for a contribution towards the cost of the widening, the
Improvements Committee of the London County Council pointed out
that to complete the widening of the whole thoroughfare it would
be necessary to deal with other properties, and suggested that the
Borough Council should prepare alternative estimates of the cost of
widening Lower Richmond Road (a) to 54 ft. and (b) to 60 ft.
throughout.
104. After consultation with the London County Council valuer, an
estimate of the cost of acquiring the property required for widening
the road to 54 ft. was prepared and amounted to £37,328, after
allowing for surplus land. The estimated cost of paving the carriageway
with wood and the footpaths with artificial stone was £11,372.
The total estimated nett cost of widening the road throughout to 54 ft.
was, therefore, £48,700. The estimate was forwarded to the County
Council, and that Council informed that the Borough Council did not