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Acquisitions and Closures on the Five Areas.
Houses Acquired.
Houses Closed.
1901.
1902.
1901.
1902.
Aylesbury Place Area — 16 — 3
Garden How Area 1 35 1 14
Roby Street Area — 34 — 29
Baltic Street Area 1 14 1 8
Honduras Street Area — 8 — —
Totals 2 102 2 54
These figures are obtained from returns supplied by the London
County Council to the Rating Department of the Borough Council.
It will be understood that the closures here enumerated do not
include closures before 1901 (which number 9 or 10), nor do
they include about an equal number closed during the last few
weeks. The exact number of houses now closed, as counted by us,
is 75, leaving 169 dwelling-houses still in occupation. In accordance
with the County Council's usual practice the "closed " premises are
locked and boarded up as soon as vacant possession has been
obtained. It will be seen in all these tables that the Roby Street
area is the most advanced of the five, and it is upon this area that
building operations will be shortly commenced, under the obligation
placed upon the County Council, to accommodate 1200 persons upon
or in the vicinity of this and the three adjoining areas. In this
way provision will be found for the persons displaced from the next
area to be closed. Thus, in turn, it is intended that there will be
accommodation for each set of persons to be displaced previous to
their displacement. (For the relationship of the new L.C.C. buildings
on Reid's Brewery Site to the Finsbury areas, see Minutes, page 90).
I understand that it has been alleged that the County Council
and the Borough Council have " evicted " a number of tenants on
these areas.* I have no reason to suppose, nor am I in possession of
° I understand the term eviction to mean an arbitary ejection of tenants paying
punctually their rents and performing their other obligations.