WANDSWORTH BRIDGE TO WANDSWORTH COMMON
County Council's Costly Scheme
GRADIENT TO BE ENGINEERED WITH CUTTINGS
Dual Carriageways and Footbridges lying between North Me mad Yorkroad, a gap of leas than yards. The scheme the approval the Ministry Transport. provides for a widening Bridgend-road its southern end to feet, with a roundabout at York-read, the construction which will he facilitated by the impending change-over from trams to trolleybuses along York-road. New Road Under East Hill and North Side TheLondon County Council on Tue-11 ~ day Kk-d yt4c4c jKiwers in next RftwtMm and the Southern IeMton 4f Parliament to carry out Railway the roal will Iestimated to cost it 845,000 in width ami will to net! for the improvement where the road under the OMMit of the southern approach to railway to provide room for a central Wandsworth Bridge, which is now bepier. Crossing Pod more-road, the road demolished preparatory reeonvutl ascend hv nmderwte gradients strnction. The need for the provision open cutting to East Hill, under which of a new approach has been urged for it will pass in a covered cutting <7 feet many years by both Wandsworth and wide, continuing open cutting Fulham Borough Councils and the North Side, and under that road in Minister of Transport. The Roval covered cutting again. It will then Con in-" mjn Cross River Traffic in continue 75 feet in width on an also recommended the improveing gradient in oven cutting to its ment thi- approach. junction with Trinity-road MandsIt ha- alwavs been recognised that worth Common, continuing across the -4- heme for the construction of an common hv a widening Trinity-road, adequate southern approach should ami the junction with Windmill-road. Tlie joining the southern bridge-head Ischeme provides for dual with Trinity-road, which k a very well-1 each feet width. separatol road in the direction — continuous central strin five feet .wide. Wand-worth Bridge and onlv separates! The footway- will lie feet wide on froui it by the steeply-sloping ground the --s feet wide sections and five feet
vide fori in cutting There will be no -<-c-s for between tike new rood and the erered portions of and Podmore-road. The port ion# Podmore-road will be connected a footbridge. Wood well-street will be closed to Tehicle-, the eastern end of Elmsleigb-terrace will be stopped up and also The Minister of Transport will be empowered the application the Council or the Wandsworth Metropolitan Borough Council to rrobibit or limit the of vehicles the new road and those streets. the suggestion of Wandsworth Borough Council, provision has been made for (t>nne< ting roads to take traffic travelling between Trinity-road, Huguenot-pla-e, and North tint, in view traftc statand increased co't involved, — further suggestion the Borough Council for a roundabout t the iunetion of Huguenot-place \ North Side, and Wort Side was not adnf ted. The new road will, however, le so graded a to permit of the construction of the roundabout future, necessary.
The scheme involves a net loss to Wandsworth Common of just over an acre and a third. In lieu of just over three and a third acres of the common which will be absorbed by the scheme, another area and the site of certain roads (including St. Ann's-road) which will be closed, will be added to the common. The triangular area (of about two acres) will then become united with it,
Increasing the General Amenities, and these proposals will mitigate any ill-effects attributable to the construction of the new road. The Council in consultation with the Parks Committee as to compensation for the net loss to the common.
The Minister of Transport has been asked to agree that the scheme will rank for grant at the higher rate of WANDSWORTH BRIDGE- [BNA: Link.]