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repairs, alterations and renovations agreed upon have been carried out. As a
result, pending the promised further development of the area, a very considerable
improvement has been made.
UNION BUILDINGS AREA.
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.
By the end of the year 1905, the majority of the houses in the area had been
closed, and the demolition had been begun, and by April, 1906, the demolition
of the whole area was completed.
During the year plans for the new buildings to be erected were approved,
and the erection was begun in August.
Under Part III. of the Act.
REID'S BREWERY SITE.
The Reid's Brewery Site was purchased by the London County Council for
the erection of working class houses for 1,681 of the 3,700 persons of the
working class that would be displaced by the new Holborn to the Strand street
(Kingsway).
The original scheme has been extended so as to include accommodation in all
for 2,614 persons exclusive of shops. In my Annual Report for 1903, I gave
details of the buildings proposed to be erected on the site, and the work, with
the exception of some of the shops which are not yet occupied, was completed
during the year 1906.
LIST OF PREMISES CLOSED, DEMOLISHED, OR REBUILT DURING 1906.
St. Giles and Bloomsbury.
Alfred Place, Nos. 20 to 32. Closed.
Bloomsbury Street, Nos. 7 to 19 (odd) with Nos. 29 to 34 Great Russell Street,
Rebuilt (Ivanhoe Hotel.)
Chenies Street, Nos. 12 and 14. Closed.
Denmark Street, No. 11. New warehouse being built.
Francis Street, Nos. 14 to 18. Site vacant.
Gate Street, No. 1. Site still vacant.
„ Nos. 22, 23 and 24 with Nos, 223 to 228 High Holborn.
Station built (King's Cross and Hammersmith Railway), offices over being built,
Gower Street, Nos. 82, 84 and 86. Being demolished,