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Cadogan and Hans Place Estate (No. 3) Ltd.
During the year 1904 communications passed between this estate
Company and the Chelsea Borough Council as to the development of
the estate of which the reversionary interests had been purchased by the
Company from the ground-landlord, Earl Cadogan. The estate is
situated in the northern portion of the Borough, and is bounded
by Fulham-road, Marlborough-road, and Green-street on the North;
Rawlings-street, Cadogan-street, and Marlborough-road on the East;
Cumberland-place and College-place on the South ; and College-street,
Marlborough-street, and Leader-street on the West.
The total number of inhabited houses on this estate is about 790,
the area of the private land, excluding public streets, being some
20 acres. The population of the area is about 6,300 persons. The
majority of the leases expire at Christmas, 1908. A large proportion
of the 6,300 people inhabiting the area, who will be displaced during
the development of the estate, are of the artizan and labourer or small
trader class.
As the result of representations made to the Company by the
Borough Council with regard to the re-housing of a portion of the
displaced working population, the Company replied that they were
unable to sell any of the land on the estate to the London County
Council at a housing value, and that they would be unable to make any
provision for re-housing persons, who are now living on the estate, and
will be displaced when the leases expire.
The Borough Council subsequently considered the question of
extending the provisions of Section 3 of the Housing of the Working
Classes Act, 1903, to cover the case of demolitions of houses by private
individuals or companies, so as to bring such cases within the Schedule
of the Act, in like manner as is required where demolitions are undertaken
under the powers given by the Act, by any local Act, or by
Provisional Order. The Borough Council resolved to take no action,
having regard to the difficulties that would arise if Section 3 of the
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1903, was extended in the
manner indicated.

Taking the number of persons per house as 6, 204 persons have
been displaced during 1904 as the result of demolition.