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stating that the Company were directing their attention to
the widening of Rye Lane, in front of Coombe Lodge,
Peckham Public Hall, and the Shops adjoining, but that the
large amount of compensation asked by the Owners had
prevented the Company from completing and opening the
tramway, under the resolution of the Vestry of the 25th
July, 1888.
Later in October the Company applied to the County
Council for their sanction to the widening of the thoroughfare
of Rye Lane, in accordance with a Plan marked B,
referred to in the resolution of the Vestry of the 25th
July, 1888, and the Council sent to ask whether that resolution
expressed the present views of the Vestry, or whether
the Vestry's opinion had in any way changed. To which
the Vestry replied that they saw no reason to depart from
such resolution.
Thereupon the Council, at its meeting on the 8th
December, 1891, passed the following resolution:—
"That upon the London, Camberwell and Dulwich
Tramways Company acquiring the land coloured red on the
plan, marked B, submitted by the Company, and upon the
same being conveyed without cost to the Vestry of Camberwell,
for the use of the public for ever, the consent of the
London County Council be given to the construction of the
tramway through Rye Lane, in accordance with the existing
Acts of Parliament in that behalf, and that a sealed copy of
this resolution be sent to the Company."