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London County Council's offer to contribute towards costs of action
The Parks and Open Spaces Committee of the London
County Council, having written to the Vestry stating
that they would be prepared to recommend the Council
to favourably consider the question of contributing towards the costs incurred
by the Vestry in the suits now pending respecting Lammas Rights in
Fulham, but prior to any further consideration of the subject, the Committee
would be glad to be informed, in detail, of the nature of the suits. The
Lammas Rights and Open Spaces Committee of the Vestry referred the
letter to the Law and Parliamentry Committee, who instructed the Solicitor
to supply the London County Council, in accordance with their request,
with particulars of the suits now pending re Lammas Rights.
Bishop's and West Meadows.
(laying out and embanking of).
On the 1st April, 1891, the Clerk was instructed to write to the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners, stating that the Vestry had carefully
considered the offer of the Commissioners to grant the West Meadow on
a lease of 999 years, and find that they cannot obtain the sanction of the
London County Council to effect a loan or to carry out their covenants,
unless the land is given as freehold, and that the Vestry would suggest as
a means to enable the London County Council to assent, that they should
sell the land to the Vestry for a nominal sum, and that a copy of this
resolution, together with a copy of the letter received from the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners be forwarded to the London County Council.
At the meeting of the Vestry, held on the 29th April, 1891, a letter was
read from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, agreeing to convey the West
Meadow to the Vestry for a nominal sum, and the Solicitor was instructed
to complete the conveyance of the West Meadow from the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners to the Vestry as soon as possible; and at the same time the
Clerk read a letter from the London County Council, stating that as the
London County Council had declined to vote the necessary amount for the
building of a River Wall, the matter could not be proceeded with unless the
Vestry determined to carry out the work.
At the meeting of the Vestry, held on the 13th May, 1891, the plans
prepared by the Surveyor for the construction of the River Wall and
Bishops and West Meadows were approved, and he was instructed to
produce at the next meeting of the Works Committee a specification to
work to, and an approximate estimate of the costs, and upon the
approval of the specification, the Clerk was instructed to issue advertisements
for tenders for the work, and to ask the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
to allow the Vestry to commence the construction of the River Wall at
the West Meadow end, they undertaking to convey the West Meadow
to the Vestry upon the completion of the work.
The Surveyor having in accordance with the previous resolution prepared
the specification for the embankment of the Bishop's and West Meadows,
the Works Committee recommended that instead of the wall being a concrete