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Denny and Chester Streets area. These commencing model
schemes in town planning deserve the attention of the Borough
Council and of the inhabitants of the Borough generally, more
especially as little, if anything, is seen of the improvements that have
already been effected when viewed only from the main Kennington
Road, in which there are many houses, belonging to the same owner,
some of which are empty and dilapidated, e.g., Nos. 227 to 291, and
which are suitable for conversion into separately contained flats or
tenements, as is actually being tried, as an experiment, in the case
of Nos. 273 and 275. Looking at these empty and dilapidated
houses in the Kennington Road, it can hardly be realised that there
is immediately behind them such a model scheme as Denny Street
Crescent, in place of what used to be Chester Mews, Golden's Place,
Denny Street and Mart Street, consisting of old, dilapidated and
worn-out and dirty and insanitary houses.
Another area belonging to the Duchy of Cornwall that is ripe for
the proposed improvement scheme is what may be termed the
Robert Raikes and Whitehart Street areas. Hundreds of old, dilapidated
and worn-out houses have been closed, in the form of streets,
courts and alleys and cul-de-sacs, e,g,. Whitehart Street (7 to 17, 43,
49 to 77, 4, 10 to 16, 20, and 24 to 28)), Whitehart Square (the whole
of the houses with three exceptions), and Regency Place and
Regency Square (the whole of the houses with a few exceptions),
whilst the houses which were formerly known as Diamond Buildings
and Cupar Cottages (Whitehart Street) have been demolished, as
have also some of the houses in Whitehart Street (Nos. 30 to 62 and
79 to 91) and in Whitehart Square (Nos. 1 to 5, inclusive, and the
Smithy).
At this point of the Report it may be put on record that the
result of official action (house-to-house inspections, etc.) in Prince's
Ward, assisted by the three above-mentioned schemes, has been the
demolishing of the following courts and alleys and cul-de-sacs and
streets :—
Albert Cottages (Randall Road), Beet Court, Chester Mews, Cottage
Place (Cottington Street), Cottage Place and Rose
Cottage (Stannary Street), Cupar Cottages, Denny Street
(part), Diamond Buildings (Whitehart Street), Golden's
Place, Isabella Row, Joan Place (Newburn Street), Lemon
Court, Mart Street (part), Neville Street (part), Olive