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already approved of the site. The Bill received the Royal assent
on the 4th August.
99. The County Council informed this Council that they had
decided to take steps for the compulsory purchase of a site for a
new school at Cambourn Road, Wandsworth. The Council
approved the proposal, but called the attention of the County
Council to the fact that this Council was not consulted before the
site was determined upon as provided by Section 2 (2) of the
Education (London) Act, 1903.
100. The County Council has also decided to increase the
accommodation of the schools at Fountain Road, Franciscan
Road, Broadwater Road and Smallwood Road.
Southfields
School site
101. With reference to the proposal of the London County
Council to erect another school on part of the site
of the Southfield Council School, referred to in the
last annual report, a deputation from this Council waited upon a
Sub-Committee of the Education Committee of the London
County Council in support of this Council's objection to the proposal.
The Council was subsequently informed that the SubCommittee
had given careful consideration to the representations
of the deputation, and that, having regard to the fact that the
Board of Education had sanctioned the erection of a school on the
site, the Sub-Committee were not prepared to recommend the
Council to depart from its decision to erect the school.
Higher
Elementary
Schools.
102. The subject of the higher elementary school accommodation
in the Borough was considered by the
Council, and the attention of the County Council
was called to the necessity for the provision of further schools of
this description, there being only one of these schools (Aristotle
Road) in the Borough, and the Council suggested that the West
Hill School, Wandsworth, should be converted into a higher
elementary school, and other provision made for the ordinary
scholars at the school.
103. The Aristotle Road School, Clapham, having been
recognised as a higher elementary school, the Board of Education
decided, under the provisions of Section 2 (3) of the Education