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communication for vehicular traffic between Plough Road, St.
John's Hill and Bolingbroke Grove, and the large number of
children who will attend the new Board Schools when completed,
resolved on the 10th July to complete the improvement and to
acquire under the provisions of the General Paving (Metropolis)
Act, 1817, 57 Geo. III., cap. 29, a strip of land adjoining
Mr. Butter's premises at the south corner of Plough Road,
and also land on the eastern side of that road, including the
forecourts of Nos. 117 and 119, which have for so many years
caused a serious obstruction to pedestrian traffic, and the
Vestry hope to complete this desirable improvement during the
ensuing year.
Sheepcote
Lane
Improvement.
As the result of a conference between the Works
and General Purposes Committee and the Commissioners
for Public Baths and Washhouses for this
Parish, the road in front of the Baths in Sheepcote Lane has
been widened to 40-ft., the Vestry paying the Commissioners
the sum of £170 for the land required to effect this improvement.
In connection with this matter the Vestry at their
meeting on the nth September, ordered that the necessary steps
should be taken for the purpose of acquiring under the provisions
of the General Paving (Metropolis) Act, 1817, 57
Geo. III., cap. 29, the requisite land for continuing the widening
of this road to 40-ft. in front of the Allotment Grounds. In
reply to the Statutory notices served by the Vestry, the
Board of Churchwardens and Overseers, as Trustees for the
Latchmere Allotments, stated that they were prepared to
surrender the necessary land for the sum of £500, upon the
understanding that the work of making-up and paving the road
should be executed at the expense of the Vestry, and on the
27th November these terms were accepted by the Vestry.
The Vestry further resolved on the 12th February, with a
view to the completion of the widening of Sheepcote Lane,
between Latchmere Road and Culvert Road, to acquire under
the Act the necessary land and buildings between the
Allotments and the latter road, and Statutory notices have
been served upon the owners of the property affected.