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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 provided on the Aylesbury Place Area for 200 persons to 164
persons ; and (3) the increase of accommodation to be provided on the
Union Buildings Area for 1,200 persons to 1,236 or such other
numberas the Buildingswill accommodate when erected in accordance
with approved plans. As a result of these arrangements and of the
former scheme, new buildings (known as the Mallory Buildings)
have been erected in St. John Street, adjoining the Aylesbury Place
Area. Excavations were commenced on September 20th, 1904,
and the buildings are now completed and inhabited. They consist
of one block, containing 1 tenement of one room, 16 tenements of
two rooms, and 16 of three rooms; making 33 tenements and 81
rooms. This block accommodates about 164 persons. In addition
there are 5 ground floor shops without living rooms.
On the Garden Row Area new dwellings (Chadworth Buildings)
have also been erected. They consist of eight blocks, containing
1 tenement of five rooms, 10 of four rooms, 67 of three rooms,
and 58 of two rooms, making 136 tenements and 362 rooms. These
buildings are finished, and accommodate some 500 persons. Rentals
vary from 6s. Od. to 10s. 6d. There are 19 lock-up shops on the
ground floor, four of which have back parlours.
It may therefore be said in general terms that from 1900 to 1907
some 1,700 people were displaced from these areas and new
accommodation was provided for nearly 1,100. The persons
re-accommodated were not of course as a rule the persons displaced.
In addition to the advantages of the new and better accommodation
there was of course the disappearance of the "open sores" of
insanitation and degeneration.
II. Attention has also been devoted by the Borough Council to
small insanitary areas unsuitable for treatment by the London
County Council under Part I. of the Housing of the Working