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Section III.
HOUSING- OF THE WORKING CLASSES.
Onslow Dwellings.
The Borough Council having in 1902 purchased from the Freake
Trustees the leasehold interest in Onslow Dwellings for the sum of
£5000, the Dwellings came into the possession of the Council at the
end of the first quarter of 1903. No special expenditure has been
incurred in connection with the buildings, with the exception of
supplying 72 new "Beetonette" cottage kitchen ranges, manufactured
by the Carron Company, to replace ranges that were worn out and
beyond repair. These new ranges were supplied and fixed at a total
inclusive cost of about £2 each range.
During the year the Borough Council has acquired from Mr. Sloane
Stanley for the sum of £2,300 his freehold interest in Nos. 21, 23, 25,
27, 29, and 31, Pond-place, which were included in the Freake leasehold
of Onslow Dwellings. The area of the land covered by these houses
with their curtilages is about 8,500 square feet, the depth 100 feet, and
the frontage to Pond-place, 85 feet. The price per foot super, is 5s. 5d.,
the price paid in 1901 to Mr. Sloane Stanley for his reversionary
freehold interest in Onslow Dwellings being £13,350, or 6s. 2½d.
per foot super. The lease of the premises in Pond-place held by the
Freake Trustees expires at Christmas, 1909, as does also that of Onslow
Dwellings. The Pond-place houses are held under various sub-leases,
which expire within some months or a year anterior to the expiry of
the head lease. The existing profit rental of the premises is about £25
per annum.