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recommend that Council to agree to the proposed surrender of
land. These terms were carefully considered by the Borough
Council and, the locality having been viewed, the Borough Council
in April last suggested that the County Council should give up
sufficient land to widen the road 20 feet from the existing centre,
and that the Borough Council should purchase the additional strip
of land required to make the road 40 feet wide in front of the
schools and should also undertake the necessary paving works
free of cost to the County Council. This suggestion was adopted
by the Education Committee of the County Council and, upon
their recommendation, agreed to by the County Council in May
last. The County Council has, however, since stated that it was
found that the progress made with the buildings would render it
impossible to widen the road to 40 feet.
130. The Borough Council regrets that although the attention
of the County Council was called to the matter so long ago as
October last, arrangements were not made for the building to be
so erected that the road could be widened to 40 feet, and that
while the Borough Council was negotiating for the acquisition of
the necessary land the County Council proceeded to erect the
school in such a position as to prevent the negotiations being
carried to a satisfactory conclusion and even to prevent the carrying
into effect of the resolution passed by the County Council
itself in May last agreeing to the Borough Council's proposal.
Moreover, from the point of view of convenience to teachers and
scholars, it was undesirable that the buildings should be erected
so near the public highway, as the noise of the traffic will considerably
interfere with the education of the children. The question
of the extent to which the road can be widened is still under
consideration.
131. The Council a short time ago acquired certain pieces of
land, containing 3 acres, 1 rood, 17 poles, at Gar-
Garratt Park.
ratt Lane, Wandsworth, with the view of the
extension of the Garratt Park slop shoot. The cost of the land,
including legal and other expenses, was £2,009 12S- 3d. being at
the rate of £598 15s. 4d. per acre. Part of the land consisted of
building plots abutting upon Burtop Road, Headworth Road, and
Maskell Road, and this has been sold. These plots contained
2 roods 7 poles, and realised, after deducting the expenses of the
sales, the sum of £1,109 IS- 3d being at the rate of £2,039