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adjoining property, and the London County Council, that Council
having recently undertaken the future maintenance of the bridge
and its approaches. The owner of property referred to, who was also
the owner of mills above and below the bridge, objected to the river
wall erected by the Borough Council alongside the public baths, and
an arrangement has now been come to whereby this objection is waived
on the Council taking the necessary steps to obtain an order of the
Justices for stopping up the approach to the river and removing the
island between High Street and Buckhold Road. The part of the
site of the approach required for the widening of High Street to 60 ft.
will be transferred to the County Council, but will not be added to
the public-way there until the bridge is widened or reconstructed.
The remainder of the site will become the property of the owner of
the adjoining land, who is to be at liberty to build thereon. The
approach to the river has often been the subject of complaint, and
several fatal accidents have occurred there. The necessary steps for
obtaining the closing order will be taken as soon as the agreement is
completed. Should the order not be made within an agreed time, a
sum of money will be payable to the above mentioned owner of
property.
112. The agreement referred to in last year's report for the
widening of Merton Road, Wandsworth, in front of
the Park Tavern, to 54 ft., the rounding off of the angle
at the junction of Merton Road and West Hill Road,
and the construction of a public underground sanitary convenience on
the corner has been entered into. The necessary land having been
conveyed to the Council the widening has been o ected, and the work
of constructing the convenience will be shortly completed.
Merton Road,
Wansworth,
"Widening,
and Sanitary
Convenience.
Footbridge
over Biver
Wandle, near
South Street.
113. The Highways Committee have for some time had under
consideration the subject of the necessity of improving
the bridge carrying the footpath from South Street to
Southfic'd over the River Wandle west of McMurray's
Paper Mills. The existing footbridge is very narrow and inconvenient,
and is clten flooded. The Committee prepared a scheme, which was
appr \ed by the Council in December last, for the construction of a
new bridge and the straightening of the path in connection therewith.
In order to carry out the proposal, a small piece of land is required
on the western bank of the river, and as the Committee have not been