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Place, Park Cottages, Queen Head Court, Queen's Place,
Salamanca Cottages, Salamanca Court, Salamanca Place,
Smith's Place, Sun Court, Vauxhall Cottages, Whitehart
Square (part) and Whitehart Street (part).
Similar remarks apply to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in
connection with their reported impending Improvement (Brixton)
Scheme, which, unfortunately, owing to the war, is not yet started.
This is known as the Scheme for the Wyke Estate, on which a
valuable site for building has been left by the demolition of houses
which were condemned officially by the Borough Council under the
Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act., 1909, closed in consequence,
and afterwards demolished, viz. : —2 to 16 (inclusive) Redan Terrace,
Lilford Road, and 35 to 57 (odd numbers) Lilford Road. The
rest of the Wyke Estate contains also many houses that are old and
dilapidated and generally worn-out, and which, consequently,
cannot be described as reasonably fit in all respects for human
habitation, though much work has been done, and is still being done,
in the way of " patching up," under sanitary notices served by the
Borough Council, so as to meet the present temporary demand for
housing accommodation in that particular district (Brixton Ward).
Marsh and Prince's Wards have been dealt with in some detail
as showing what can be and has been actually done by energetic
action on the part of a Sanitary Authority under the powers which
it already possesses under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, the
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, and the Housing, Town
Planning, etc., Act, 1909, aided by private owners' improvement
schemes. It must not be assumed, however, that the other Inner
Wards, and even the Outer Wards, of the Borough have been neglected.
On the contrary, equally energetic action has been taken
by the late Vestry and the present Borough Council in the way of
systematic supervision of the houses contained therein, with the
subsequent serving and enforcing of sanitary notices and closing
orders, with the result that the following courts and alleys and culde-sacs
and streets .have been demolished, or closed with a view to
demolition :—
Inner Wards :
Bishop's—Bird Place, Bywell Place, Cottage Place (Hercules
Road), Fountain Court, Francis Court, Fram
Place, Hercules Road (1 to 47), Monkton Street (38,