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to run, and the Vestry deeming it inexpedient to purchase
the interest of the lessee for the intervening period.
There was, however, a tacit understanding that before
the lease was renewed the Vestry would be afforded an
opportunity of completing the improvement on the basis
of land in the possession of a freeholder, so as to avoid
the necessity of paying compensation for subsidiary interests.
In the month of April, the Vestry received a letter
from the lessee's surveyor, stating that he had made an
application to the Commissioners of Woods for a new
building lease of the “Round House," and the premises
adjacent thereto in Wardour Street, and that the Crown
Surveyor had suggested the desirability of particulars
being submitted to the Vestry as they might wish to
avail themselves of the opportunity to continue the
widening of Little Pultenev Street to Wardour Street.
Negotiations followed, which it is hoped will result in
satisfactory terms being arranged and the improvement
being completed in the course of the current year.
MAIN ROADS.
For the reasons stated in their last Annual Report, the
Vestry were not surprised to receive an intimation from
the London County Council that they were not prepared
to declare any further thoroughfares to be “main roads,"
under the provisions of the Local Government Act, 1888.
It will be remembered that when a thoroughfare is declared
a “main road” by the County Council, the Council
bear either the whole or part of the cost of maintaining
the same, according as the local authority elect to allow the
control of the road to pass to the County Council or to retain
it in their own hands.