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METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF BETHNAL GREEN.
30th March, 1905.
To the Clerk of the
London County Council,
Spring Gardens, S.W.
Sir,
Brady Street Housing Scheme.
Adverting to your letter of the 18th March, 1905,
I am directed by the Public Health Committee of this
Council to express their extreme disappointment at the
decision of the London County Council not to deal
with this area under Part I. of the Housing of the
Working Classes Act, 1890; more especially as this
decision appears to have been arrived at under a
misapprehension.
It is not now a fact that private enterprise is likely to
develop this area in the near future; undoubtedly
something of the kind was contemplated in 1904, but
all the proposed arrangements have fallen through with
the exception of the re-building of a small portion of
Collingwood Street and Somerford Street. This affects
a few houses only and does not materially touch or
modify the more insanitary portions of the area. It
will not lead to the widening of a single street or
passage, or to any re-arrangement or improvement in the
insanitary area.
I beg again to draw the Council's serious attention
to the statements contained in my letter to you of
the 24th February, 1904, copy of which is enclosed
herewith.