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77. In connection with this scheme, the Borough Council
arranged for the road in front of Nos. 8 to 24 (even, inclusive),
East Hill to be raised to a more convenient level and for the road
to be widened by the addition to the public way of a strip of the
forecourts of the premises above mentioned. The Borough
Council also agreed to a strip of the Mount Nod (Huguenot)
Burial Ground and part of the forecourt and land at the side of the
Council House being thrown into the public way.
78. The construction of tramways from Lavender Hill via
Cedars Road, Clapham Common, North Side, and
Long Road, to Clapham Common, South Side, was
authorized by the London County Council (Tramways and Improvements)
Act, 1906. The Act provided that the construction of
these tramways shall not be commenced until the County Council
commenced the reconstruction of the tramways in Wandsworth
Road, Lavender Hill, and Queen's Road. The tramways in
Queen's Road having been reconstructed, and the work in Wandsworth
Road and Lavender Hill being in hand, the County Council
are now in a position to commence the line from Queen's Road to
Claoham Common, South Side.
Cedars Road,
,&o , Tramways.
79. The agreement, dated 10th August, 1906, between this
Council and the County Council, relating to the construction of
these tramways, provides (1) for the removal of the sanitary convenience
in Cedars Road, near Lavender Hill, the County Council
paying the sum of £8oo in respect thereof; (2) for the widening
of the carriageways of Long Road and Clapham Common, North
Side, by setting back the kerbs where approved by this Council;
(3) for the construction by the County Council of a surface water
sewer, with gullies, in Long Road ; and (4) for the County Council
to pave with wood, if required by this Council, so much of the
carriageway of Clapham Common, North Side, as lies between
the tramway margins and the kerb, the Borough Council to pay
the cost of such work, less the estimated cost of joining up the
tramway margins which would be rendered unnecessary.
80. Application was made by the County Council for the
approval of the Board of Trade to the system of traction (underground
conduit) proposed to be adopted, and the Borough Council
approved thereof, subject to the terms of the above-mentioned
agreement, to the margins of the tramways and the part of the