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PAYING NEW STREETS.
The details of work actually clone will be found in the Surveyor's Report.
During the year the Vestry have made orders for paving the new
streets called Gardiner's Road and Wennington Road, at the cost of the
owners of the property in the roads.
Application has been also made to the Vestry to pave the new streets
known as Cordova Road, Hamilton Road, Theydon Road, and Gernon
Road, and the cross-road leading from Kenilworth Road to Grove Road.
The case of Cordova Road has had to stand over for a fresh survey to
be made of the properties abutting on the road, as it will be necessary, to
do justice in this case, to apportion the estimated cost to be paid by the
owners according to value, instead of according to frontage, because the
factories or warehouses at the western end of the road bring so much and
such heavy traffic as to require that the carriageway be made up with,
more durable and much more costly material than would be necessary if
the road consisted entirely of the small houses which form by far the
greater part of it.
The Vestry did not think that Theydon and Gernon Roads were yet
fit for paving, being only partially formed, and the building works not
nearly completed.
The Surveyor has been directed to prepare an estimate of the cost of
paving Cranbrook Road, Hamilton Road, and the cross-road leading from
Kenilworth Road.
It has been found necessary to have a fresh estimate and apportionment
of the cost of paving the new parts of Peel Grove, those prepared
by the former Surveyor being inapplicable. The new estimate and apportionment
were submitted to the Vestry at the meeting held on the 18th
March, 1869, and were approved and adopted; but application has since
been made to the Vestry to let the paving work stand over for the present,
as houses are about to be built on, and a new street formed through, the
large piece of vacant ground abutting on Peel Grove, and which was
part of, or adjoining, the Peel Grove Cemetery.
The Yestry made an order for paving Sewardstone Road West, at the
cost of the owners of the property in the street; but it appearing that
the road had been repaired by the Vestry in 1861, on condition of the
owners kerbing the footpaths opposite their respective properties, the
Yestry have agreed finally to take to the road, on the owners paying
for the kerbing.