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School, and also at the junction of Dunstans and Forest Hill Roads.
The locality was accordingly inspected by an Engineering Officer
of the Ministry, and it was suggested that the two school warning
signs in Peckham Rye should be replaced by signs conforming
to the standard recommended in a Memorandum recently issued
by the Ministry. It was also suggested that the kerb on the
north-western corner of Dunstans Road at its junction with Forest
Hill Road might with advantage be rounded off to a radius of 20 ft.
The Commissioner of Police who had been consulted, concurred in
these proposals, and the Ministry enquired whether this Council
would be good enough to consider the desirability of effecting these
improvements in the general interests of traffic and public safety.
The Council were of opinion that these improvements should
be carried out immediately, and instructions were accordingly
given to the Borough Engineer and Surveyor to proceed with the
work of rounding off the corner of Dunstans Road and erecting the
proposed standard school signs in place of those at present in
position.
Milkwell Yard, Denmark Hill. As to Stopping Up Northern
Portion.
The Council received an application for the stopping up of
this portion of Milkwell Yard, as it was stated that various nuisances
were committed therein, and it was desirable that it should be
closed. The applicants were the sole owners of all the premises
abutting on, and of the soil of, the portion proposed to be closed,
and no other persons had need to pass over it otherwise than on
their behalf.
The responsible Committee, after surveying the portion of the
Yard referred to, which is a cul-de-sac, were of opinion that the
retention of the same as a public highway was unnecessary.
The Council, at their meeting in January, adopted the following
resolution:—
That the Council, exercising the office of Surveyors of the
highways of the Borough under the provisions of Sections 84
to 91 of the Highway Act, 1835, deem it necessary that the
northern portion of the public highway known as Milkwell
Yard, Denmark Hill, should be stopped up, the same being
unnecessary, and do by their Town Clerk apply to two Justices
to view the portion of the said highway so proposed to be
stopped up, and if it should appear to them upon such view
that the portion of the said highway is unnecessary, to direct
the publication of the requisite notices so that application
may be made to the General Quarter Sessions for an Order
to stop up the same.
Subsequent to the passing of this resolution, the Yard was
viewed by two Justices, and as in their opinion the portion of