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three steps are (a) acquisition of property, (b) closure of houses,
(c) demolition of houses, and the following Table sets out the
history of these proceedings.
Areas.
No. of Condemned
Houses occupied at
end of 1900.
1901.
1902.
1903.
1904.
1905.
Houses
acquired.
Houses
closed.
Houses*
demolished.
Houses
acquired.
Houses
closed.
Houses
demolished.
Houses
acquired.
Houses
closed.
Houses
demolished.
Houses
acquired.
Houses
closed.
Houses
demolished.
Houses
acquired.
Houses
closed.
Houses
demolished.
Aylesbury Place 61 ... 3 ... 16 2 ... 5 16 ... 49 22 11 70 8 11
Garden Row 69 1 1 ... 35 17 ... 33 23 ... ... 7 ... ... 21 69
Roby Street 37 ... ... ... 34 30 ... 3 7 37 ... ... ... ... ... ...
Baltic Street 52 1 .. ... 14 13 ... 33 16 ... 4 11 3 ... 5 15
Honduras Street 16 ... ... ... 3 ... ... 10 1 ... 3 1 ... ... 1 ...
Total 235 2 4 ... 102 62 ... 84 63 37 56 41 14 70 35 95
(vi) Rebuilding.—Roby Street and Garden Row are the only
areas upon which complete demolition has been carried out.
Upon the former (Roby Street Area) new buildings (known as the
Wenlake Buildings), have been erected by the London County
Council for the accommodation of about 390 persons. The buildings
consist of two blocks, known as the angle block and the straight
block. The former contains 20 tenements of two rooms each, 20 of
three rooms, and 5 of four rooms ; in all there are 45 tenements, containing
120 rooms; the latter contains 10 tenements of two rooms,
20 of three rooms and 10 of four rooms, in all 40 tenements containing
120 rooms. The rentals vary from (is. 6d. to 10s. per week.
The Aylesbury Place Improvement Scheme of 1899 was modified
by the London County Council under sanction of the Home
Secretary (1) to include certain surplus land in connection with the
St. John Street widening ; (2) the reduction of the accommodation to be
Demolition refers only to houses demolished under the Act by the
County Council. It does not include " ruins."