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Negotiations are proceeding with the Lambeth Borough
Council for the purchase of land on the southern
side of this road for the purpose of widening to a
minimum of 50 feet from the Eastern boundary of the Lambeth
Cemetery to Tooting High Street.
Blackshaw
Road.
A strip of land has already been acquired on the north side
from the Metropolitan Asylums Board and a wall has been
erected to the new line of frontage.
The estimated cost of the whole of the work, which includes
making up the road, raising the level of same to meet that of
Tooting High Street, constructing a new 18-inch sewer, and the
pulling down and re-erecting to new line of the boundary wall of
the Asylums grounds, is £2,821 3s. 8d.
The kerb has been taken up and re-laid, and Scoria; block
channelling laid on cement concrete on both sides
of the road at a cost of £160 7s. 5d.
Burston
Road.
One of the by-roads on Tooting Common leading from a
point near the Asylum to Furzedown Road has
been widened from 16 feet to 22 feet. The total
cost of this work was £85 4s. 7d.
By-road,
Tooting
Common.
The projecting buildings and fences have now been removed,
new fences have been erected, the footpath kerbed
and paved with artificial paving, and the widened
road made good at a total cost, including purchases of property
and law costs of ,£1,385 11s. od.
Cavendish
Boad-
The tar-paving in this road has been broken up and relaid
from Atkins Road to Grove Road, at a cost of £127 11s. 7d.
At Putney Vale Cemetery the outside of the Lodge and two
of the rooms, also greenhouse, have been painted
and repaired by Messrs. W. Adkins & Sons, Roehampton,
at a cost of £20 15s. od.
Cemeteries.
At Wandsworth Cemetery a sum of £458 16s. 7d. has
been expended in providing new gullies, kerbing and channelling
carriage drives, and tar-paving footpaths. The approaches to