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From the following report of the Housing of the Working Classes Committee of the 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 : —
"We have had under consideration plans for the development of the Reid's Brewery site,
Clerkenwell, which was acquired by the Council for the provision of accommodation for persons to be
displaced by the formation of the new street from Holborn to the Strand. The site has frontages to
Clerkenwell Road, Leather Lane, Portpool Lane and Grays Inn Road. The plan which we have
approved and which has also received the approval of the Secretary of State, provides for the erection
of five-story block dwellings all round the site, except on the frontage to Grays Inn Road where the
existing buildings will remain for the present. These dwellings will be pierced with six archways up
to the second floor, giving access to the interior of the site. There are also two existing archways
from Grays Inn Road. The main interior of the site will be occupied by five five-story transverse
blocks of dwellings divided by yards and gardens. The narrow end of the site next Grays Inn Road
will contain another short block of five-story dwellings, and the remainder of the site between this
block and Grays Inn Road frontages will be laid out as a playground and garden. An estate office
and 23 shops will be provided on the ground floor of the dwellings facing Clerkenwell Road and
Leather Lane. The accommodation will consist of 551 tenements, of which only 13 will be associated
and the remainder self-contained. The 13 associated tenements will consist of one room; there will be
361 two-roomed tenements, 136 three-roomed tenements, and 41 four-roomed tenements. Accommodation
will be provided in all for 2,614 persons exclusive of shops."
HERBRAND STREET SITE.
In 1901 this site was acquired for the purpose of providing for 680 of the 3,700 persons of the
working classes displaced by the new Holborn to the Strand street (Kingsway), and building operations
were begun about August, 1902.
During last year three blocks, Coram, Dickens, and Thackeray Buildings, were being
erected.
HOUSES CLOSED VOLUNTARILY, DEMOLISHED, REBUILT, ETC.
Bloomsbury and St. Giles.
Alfred Place, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Rebuilding.
" " 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19. Demolished and rebuilding.
Bernard Street and Herbrand Street (corner of). Flats erected.
Bloomsbury Street, Nos. 9, 11, 19. Remain closed.
„ „ No. 13. Closed.
„ „ Nos. 14, 16. Rebuilt.
No. 18. Demolished and rebuilt.
Nos. 21 and 23, and Nos. 94, 95, 96 and 97, Great Russell Street.
Rebuilt as the Kenilworth and Waverley Hotel (completed).
Chenies Street, Nos. 8 and 10. Rebuilding.
Coptic Street, Nos. 26, 27, 28 and 29, with 1 and 2 Little Russell Street. Rebuilt (Mudie's).
Cosmo Place, Nos. 2, 4, 6. Demolished. Being rebuilt as the Cosmo Hotel.
Coram Street, No. 23, with 27, Kenton Street. Demolished. Flats being erected.
Drury Lane, No. 175. Closed.
„ „ „ 176. Closed.
Endell Street, Nos. 33 and 35. Rebuilding.
Francis Street, No. 18. Site still vacant.
„ „ Nos. 5, 6, 7, and 37 and 39, Huntley Street. Rebuilding as üblic house,
shops and flats, (completed).
Gate Street, Nos. 1, 22, 24. Demolished.