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Mitcham
Road,
Tooting. Improvement.
118. The negotiations for the acquisition of the property required
for this widening have been proceeded with, and terms
settled in several cases. In a few instances, however,
the compensation offered by the Council not having
been accepted, it has been necessary to take steps to acquire the
property compulsorily.
Church lane,
Tooting, Improvement.
119. In connection with the development for building purposes of
the Totter-down Fields estate and the Totter down estate,
011 the north-western side of Church Lane, Tooting, the
Council has arranged with the owners for the widening
of the road there to 50 ft. The total estimated cost of the improvement
is £1,800, the greater part of which is in respect of levelling
the land added to the public way. The London County Council has
been asked to contribute towards the cost, but has not yet come to a
decision on the subject.
Widening
Bye-road,
Tooting
Common.
120. The attention of the Borough Council having been called
to the insufficient width of a short bye-road running
diagonally across Tooting Common, and forming part of
an omnibus route between Streatham and Balham, the
County Council suggested that the road should be widened slightly by
the incorporation therein of a strip of the Common, and that the
Borough Council should, at its own expense, widen, make up, and
thereafter maintain the road. Upon the suggestion being considered,
a proposal was made that, as an alternative, a part of West Drive,
Streatham Park, should be adopted, and the road continued in a northwesterly
direction to Tooting Bee Road. The schemes put forward
for carrying out the last-mentioned suggestion were as follows, viz.
(a) That West Drive should be continued in a direct line across
private property and a narrow strip of Tooting Common to Tooting Bee
Road opposite The Avenue. The estimated cost of constructing the road
was £1,289, to which would have had to be added the compensation
payable in respect of property required.
(b) That from the north-western angle in West Drive a road should
be formed leading on to looting Common and along the edge of the
Common in a north-westerly direction to Tooting Bee Road opposite The
Avenue. The estimated cost of the road was £ 1,474. The private property
required for scheme (a) would not have been interfered with, but there
would have been a sharp twist in the road where it entered the Common.