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Miscellaneous.
The Vestry have completed the purchase, with Sir William Gomm, of the fee of the
portion of the Millpond, Jamaica Level, required for the proposed improvement of the
carriageway and east footway there, for the sum of £150, and it has been arranged with the
Vestry of Bermondsey that this Vestry shall carry out the whole of the works with the
exception of the road pulleys and drains, which will be provided and executed by the Vestry
of Bermondsey, who have also agreed to contribute the sum of £275 towards the cost of the
work, which is estimated at the sum of £1,547 5s. 7d. The Metropolitan Board of Works
have been solicited to contribute towards the cost of the improvement, and so soon as thoir
approval has been obtained thereto, the work will be executed by contract under the direction
of a Committee appointed for that purpose by this Vestry.
It has been likewise arranged that upon the completion of the improvement works,
Jamaica Level, and upon the Vestry of Bermondsey properly making up the portion of the
roadways hereinafter mentioned, now under their control, and agreeing to repair, cleanse and
water the whole of the carriageway, West-lane, southward of Millpond-bridge, also the whole
of the carriageway, Jamaica Level, to the entrance to " Southwark Park,'' then that this
Vestry are to repair, cleanse and water the portion of the carriageway, Manor-road, north of
Roseberry-street, to its junction with the Blue Anchor-road, together with the portion of the
carriageway, Rotherhithe New-road, west of Hyson-road, to the boundary of the parish of
Rotherhithe.
Upon receiving a communication from the Metropolitan Board of Works as to an application
made to that Board for their consent to the widening and extension of Glebe-road,
Jamaica Level (Wing a road formed in 1846, which it was proposed should be extended
northward to Slipper's-place, and southward to Hickling-street, and to be of the width of 20
feet only), the Vestry passed a resolution to the effect — "That the Metropolitan Board of
Works be informed this Vestry were of opinion that such application should not be granted
as they considered the formation or extension of streets of a less width than 40 feet to be
highly objectionable," which resolution was duly forwarded to the Metropolitan Board of
Works; that Board,however, ultimately granted the application upon condition that the new
street be paved with York paving to the satisfaction of the Vestry, and that posts be placed
at the east end of Glebe-road to prevent the passage of carriage traffic. The name of " Matsonstreet"
was also approved by the Metropolitan Board of Works to be applied to the new
street.
The Metropolitan Board of Works have sanctioned the continuation southward of the
return road out of Gomm-road, and the formation of a new road there, 40 feet in width, and
approved of it being named '' Henwood-road ;" that Board have also sanctioned the re-ereetion
of three cottages in Reed's Passage, Rotherhithe-street, upon condition that the passage in
front of the intended cottages be widened to 20 feet from the centre of the old way.
The Vestry caused a petition to be presented to the House of Commons against the
'' Park Lane Improvement Bill," introduced by the Metropolitan Board of Works,and praying
that enquiry might be made as to the practicability and advantage of the Scheme proposed by
Mr. Henry Saxon Snell, of 36, Chancery Lane, for the improvement of the traffic at the
southern end of Park Lane, Piccadilly, which scheme appeared to the Vestry to be likely to
be attiendcd with less cost to the rate pavers of the Metropolis than if the plan of the Metropolitan
Board of Works was authorized to be carried out