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London County Council 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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APPENDIX XVIII.
STATEMENT AS TO THE COMMERCIAL AND HOUSING VALUES OF SITES UTILISED FOR THE ERECTION OF
WORKING CLASS DWELLINGS.
Statement showing difference between the commercial value and the housing value of sites (a) sold by the Metropolitan Board of Works r ,o Dwellings Companies and others, with the obligation to erect dwellings for the working classes
thereon, or (b) acquired or appropriated bv the Council for the erection of wortcing class dwellings.
Note .—The figures in the column headed "Commercial value," except in the few instances where actual cost is given, represent the estimate of the Council's Valuer of the amount which would have been obtained in the open market at the time of the disposal of the re-housing site for the site as cleared land free from all restrictions. The figures in the column headed "Housing value" represent in statement (a) the sums actually received from Dwellings Companies and others for the sites restricted to the erection of working class dwellings and in statement ( b ) the estimated housing value as determined by the Council on the advice of the Valuer, and charged to the capital accounts of the dwellings.
| Clearance scheme or street improvement | Commercial value (estimated). | Housing value. (Cash received from Dwellings Companies. | Difference charged to clearance scheme or improvement (cost of writing down value of cleared site). | Dwellings. | Commercial value. (Estimated.) | Housing value. (Estimated.) [Amounts charged to Dwellings Accounts, page 28, col. 6.j | Difference charged to clearance scheme or improvement (cost of writing down value of cleared site). |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Housing of the working Classes Act, 1890. | £ | £ | £ | housing of the working classes act, 1890. Part I. | £ | £ | £ |
| Boundary-street | 131,670 | 62,010 | 69,660 | ||||
| Part I.—Clearance Schemes. | Cable-street | 8,500 | 3,660 | 4,840 | |||
| Shelton-street | 24,465 | 5,100 | 19,365 | ||||
| whitechapel and Limehouse | 73,000 | 24,900 | 48,1000 | Millbank | *16,202 | 11,907 | 4,295 |
| Goulston-street and Flower and Dean-street, Whitechapel | 80,000 | 32,106 | 47,894 | Churchway | 25,000 | 8,550 | 16,450 |
| Elizabeth-place, King-street and Mint-street, St. George- | 27,000 | 12,300 | 14,700 | Hardy | 4,000 | 1,000 | 3,000 |
| the-Martyr, Southwark | Duke's-court | *61,181 | 4,200 | 53,981 | |||
| Bedfordbury, St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 15,000 | 7,886 | 7,114 | York-street | 3,000 | ||
| Great Wild-street, St. Giles-m-the-Fields | 35,000 | 15,840 | 19,160 | Preston s-road | 1,434 | 1,434 | Nil. |
| Pear Tree-court, Clerkenwell | 12,000 | 5,925 | 6,075 | St. Luke's—Wenlake | 25,900 | 5,000 | 20,900 |
| Whitecross-street, St. Luke | 105,000 | 36,882 | 68,118 | Do. Chadworth | 20,800 | 8,000 | 12,800 |
| High-street, Islington | 11,000 | 5,650 | 5,350 | Clerkenwell and Holborn — Mallory | 10,000 | 1,620 | 8,380 |
| Old Pye-street, Westminster | 40,000 | 20,410 | 19,590 | Do. Nigel, etc. | 53,000 | 14,550 | 38,450 |
| Bowman's-buildings, St. Marylebone | 16,500 | 10,000 | 6,500 | Webber-row | 28,500 | 9,750 | 18,750 |
| Essex-road, Islington | 30,000 | 13,306 | 16,964 | Parker-street† | 14,035 | 37,750 | 10,285 |
| Wells-street, Poplar | 12,000 | 5,000 | 7,000 | ||||
| Windmill-row, Lambeth | 6,000 | 3,050 | 2,950 | Brook-street | 3,600 | 1,800 | 1,800 |
| Tabard-street, Newington | 7,000 | 4,200 | 2,800 | Goldsmith's-row | *4,794 | 1,000 | 3,794 |
| Hughes-fields, Deptford | 2,600 | 1,460 | 1,140 | Hughes-fields | 7,760 | 3,720 | 4,040 |
| Total for Clearance schemes | 472,100 | 198,915 | 273,185 | Part. II. | |||
| Cranley | 1,500 | 750 | 750 | ||||
| Borough | 8,146 | 5,000 | 3,146 | ||||
| Cobham | 6,466 | 2,100 | 4,366 | ||||
| Ann-street | 2,850 | 2,260 | 590 | ||||
| Sylva | 2,166 | 1,000 | 1,166 | ||||
| ‡Carrington House | 3,834 | 2,200 | 1,634 | ||||
| Street Improvements. | 465,803 | 163,361 | 302,442 | ||||
| §Dwellings under Improvement Acts. | |||||||
| Metropolitan Street Improvements Act, 1872— | Battersea-bridge | 4,000 | 1,350 | 2,650 | |||
| Bethnal Green-road | 11,500 | *7,220 | 4,280 | Cotton-street | 2,500 | 1,400 | 1,100 |
| Old-street to Oxford-street (Clerkenwell-road and Theobald's-road) | 38,400 | 10,860 | 27,540 | Durham | 5,000 | 2,380 | 2,620 |
| Duke's-court | *20,668 | 1,400 | 18,268 | ||||
| Willow-walk, Great Eastern-street | 26,305 | 14,272 | 12,033 | Y ork-street | 1,000 | ||
| Metropolitan Board of Works (Various Powers) Act, 1876— | Herbrand-street | 41,836 | 7,000 | 34,836 | |||
| Appold-street (Sun-street), Shoreditch | 2,100 | 1,250 | 850 | Bruce House | 63,000 | 8,830 | 54,170 |
| Metropolitan Street Improvements Act, 1877— | Bourne | *201,469 | 44,000 | 157,469 | |||
| Camberwell and Peckham | 1,500 | 600 | 900 | Millbank | *27,901 | 20,651 | 7,250 |
| Charing-cross-road and Shaftesbury-avenue | 77,000 | *33,715 | 43,285 | Swan-lane | 6,850 | 5,000 | 1,850 |
| Gray's Inn-road (including Elm-street, Acts of 1884 and 1887) | 22,730 | 14,335 | 8,395 | Valette | 8,600 | 3,000 | 5,600 |
| hughes-fields | *428 | 428 | - | ||||
| Jamaica road and Union-road | 10,700 | 5,300 | 5,400 | Bearcroft | 2,229 | 700 | 1,529 |
| Kentish Town-road | 2,500 | 2,300 | 200 | ||||
| Marshalsea-road (Southwark Bridge-road) | 4,200 | 1,900 | 2,300 | Council | 3,000 | 621 | 2,379 |
| Tooley-street | 20,000 | *10,000 | 10,000 | Westview, Armitage and Collerston | 4,900 | 1,148 | 3,752 |
| Metropolitan Street Improvements Act, 1883— | Tdenden | 4,400 | 1,500 | V/ 1 • V 2,900 | |||
| Green-street, Bethnal Green | 3,500 | 2,030 | 1,470 | Barnaby | 6,100 | 2,875 | 3,225 |
| Upper-street, Islington | 2,500 | 950 | 1,550 | Brightlingsea | 4,100 | 1,000 | 3,100 |
| Hampstead, High-street | 2,500 | 1,500 | 1,000 | Bekesbourne | 2,350 | 1,120 | 1,230 |
| Metropolitan Board of Works (Various Powers) Act, 1885— | Darcy | 2,350 | 1,250 | 1,100 | |||
| Rosebery-avenue | 30,000 | 24,775 | 5,225 | Wandsworth-road | *4,596 | 1,560 | 3,036 |
| Total for Street Improvements | 255,435 | 131,007 | 124,428 | 416,277 | 108,213 | 308,064 | |
| Total | 727,535 | 329.922 | 397,613 | 882,080 | 271,574 | 610,506 | |
Annual Report of the London County Council, 1911.
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* Wholly or partly based on the capitalisation of annual ground rents.
* Actual cost of site purchased for re-housing purposes.
† Erected as a lodging house under Part III., but provides accommodation in connection with Shelton-street Scheme,
‡ Erected as a lodging house under Part III., but provides accommodation in connection with Mill-lane, Deptford, Scheme.
§ For Statutes under which these dwellings are erected, see page 28.