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scheme under Part I. of the Act of 1890; but they suggested that in consequence of its being the
alleged intention of the freeholders of the estate to themselves re-develop the property for commercial
purposes, it is a proper case to leave to the Home Secretary to decide whether he will order the County
Council to prepare and carry into effect a scheme, either under Part I. or Part II. of the Act of 1890.
Our Council requested the Secretary of State to direct a Local Enquiry to be held into the
subject of the Representation.
The Home Office subsequently agreed to receive a Deputation, and the Chairman of the Housing
of the Working Classes Committee, Councillor E. H. Keen, accompanied by the Mayor and Councillor
Walter Hazell, J.P., and attended by the Town Clerk, waited upon the Permanent Under-Secretary of
State for the Home Department on the 12th July. Mr. J. F. Remnant, M.P., was kind enough to
accompany the Deputation and introduce them. The matter was very fully discussed, and at the close
the Under-Secretary of State promised that a further communication should be made to the London
County Council upon the subject and the result communicated to the Council in due course. No further
communication has since been received from the Home Office.
Although the Freeholders of the greater part of the area long ago stated that it was their
intention to develop the area shortly, nothing has since been done.
UNION BUILDINGS AREA.
Aylesbury Place, Clerkenwell, and Union Buildings, Holborn, Improvement Scheme, 1899.
After local enquiry in the year 1900, a Provisional Order was made by one of Her Majesty's
principal Secretaries of State and an Act confirming the Provisional Order was afterwards passed.
Some of the houses have since been closed under Part II. of the Act, and many others have since
been closed voluntarily. It is anticipated that the houses in the area will be demolished during this
year (1905) and the erection of the new buildings begun.
Under Part II. of the Act.
Under Part II. of the Act, Section 30, the following were represented as unhealthy dwelling
houses:—
9, Eagle Street.
22, Princeton Street.
24, Princeton Street.
4, East Street.
In all cases the premises were made fit for human habitation.
Under Part 111. of the Act.
REID'S BREWERY SITE.
The Reid's Brewery Site was purchased by the London County Council for the erection of
working class houses for 1,681 of the 3,700 persons of the working class that would be displaced by the
new Holborn to the Strand street (Kingsway).
The original scheme has been extended so as to include accommodation in ail for 2,614 persons
exclusive of shops. In my Annual Report for 1903, I gave details of the buildings proposed to he
erected on the site, and the work is now nearly completed.