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On 2nd February, 1897, the General Purposes and Works Committee, having impacted
the footways in Bracton Road, passing through an arch of the visduct at that spot, and continuing
eastward to Trundley's Road, near the Grand Surrey Canal, authorised to he stopped up by
the Company's Act of 1896, with the proviso that a substituted footway should be formed,
which obligation was proposed to be done away with in the presant Bill; it was
Resoolved—upon the recommendation of the Committee—That the previous resolution of
the Vestry that the obligations of the Company contained in Clause 9 of their Act of 1896 be
adhered to, be confirmed, and objection taken to the stopping up of any footways in the
parish without an obligation on the part of the Company to provide substituted ones.
The Clerk reported that he had written the Secretary of the Company, enclosing a copy
of the requirements of the Vestry, to which ho had not yet received a reply, and that failing
an undertaking on the part of the Company to comply therewith, it would be necessary
to petition against the Bill.
Resolved—(Mr. Stuart: Mr. Bulmer)—That the Clerk be and he is hereby authorised
to take such proceedings as circumstances may necessitate, as to protect the interests of the
Vestry, and that in the event of the Company not agreeing to carry out the requirements of
the Vestry, a petition be presented against the Bill under the Common Seal of the Vestry.
On 16th February, 1897, the General Purpoes and Works Committee reported that the
Company were willing to carry out such requirements with the exception of the provision of
a substituted footpath for that portion of the existing footpath proposed to be diverted into
Silwood Street and Goodson Road, thereby cutting off all communication between Silwood
Street and White Poet Lane, and having instructed the Clerk and Surveyor to endeavour to
corns to some arrangement with the Company whereby each communication might not be
cut off before petitioning against the Bill.
The Clerk reported that, as instructed, the Surveyor and himself bad bad an interview
with the Secretary of the Company, who bad expressed the Company's willingness to
provide the desire dmesns of access to While Poet Lane by connecting the asms with Silwood
Street, and the Surveyor produced a plan; showing in pencil the proposed communication