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Council urging that Council to proceed with this area. Since the representation was made,
Nos. 27 to 31 (inclusive), Byre Street Hill, have been demolished and rebuilt as warehouses, and
Nos. 1 and 2, Eyre Court, and 4|, Little Bath Street, have been closed as inhabited houses, and
are now used entirely for the manufacture and storage of ice cream, and I have received information
that other parts of the area have been let on building leases.
The area has received much attention from this Department during the year in the
endeavour to maintain it in as sanitary condition as is possible without altering the structural
defects and bad arrangement of the houses, which could only be done by an improvement scheme
or by rebuilding.
Union Buildings Akea.
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.
During the year 1902 Nos. 15, 16, and 17, Yerulam Street, were being rebuilt, and in the
latter part of the year Nos. 18 to 21 (inclusive), Verulam Street, were represented under Part II
of the Act, and were afterwards closed.
Under Part II. of the Act.
Under Part II. of the Act, Section 30, the following were represented as unhealthy
dwelling houses:—Nos. 4 and £>, Fisher Street, Nos. 41, Kingsgate Street, and Nos. 18, 19, 20
and 21, Verulam Street.
Closing Orders were obtained for Nos. 4 and 5, Fisher Street, and the London County
Council, after notices were served for the other houses, agreed to close the premises without
further action being taken.
Under 1'ait 111. of the Act.
Keid's Bbeweey Site.
The Peid's Brewery site was purchased by the London County Council for the erection of
working class lodging houses for 1,681 of the 3,7(j0 persons of the working classes that will be
displaced by the new Holborn to the Strand Street (Kingsway). During 1902 the erection of
these houses was continued and Skipwith Buildings, Denys Buildings, Freewell Buildings and
Scrope Buildings, Blocks C, D, E and F respectively were completed, and Ledham Buildings,
Block B and Block A were nearly completed.
From the following Report of the Housing of the Working Classes Committee of tin
London County Council it appears that the general scheme will be extended so as to include
accommodation in all for 2,614 persons exclusive of shops.