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No. 16, Well Street Rendered fit.
„ 2, New Street Closed by owner.
Nos. 33 and 34, New Street Closing order obtained.
Demolished by owner.
„ 35 and 36, New Street Closing order obtained,
Demolished by owner.
,, 37, 38, 39, Mew Street Demolished by owner.
No. 42, New Street Rendered fit.
Nos. 1, 2, 3, Whalebone Lane Purchased by Council in
connection with Recreation
Ground, and
demolished.
Part III. deals with " Working Class Lodging Houses," which
includes houses or cottages of one or more tenements, and as the
Council opened their first cottages under the Act during the year, it
may be well to briefly summarize their action up to the end of 189!).
Bethell Avenue Houses.—In November, 1897, the Council
applied to the Local Government Board for sanction to a loan of
£11,146, for purchase of land and erection of 29 double tenement
houses. The Board returned the plans with the following
suggestions:—(1) Height of rooms should be increased to nine feet.
(2) The yard of each house should be increased from 15 to 20 feet
long, should be surrounded by a brick wall, and instead of one yard
being used in common by the families of two tenements, a dividing
wooden or iron fence should be provided. (3) Water-closets should
be shut off from the interior of the houses, and entered directly from
the outside air. (4) The bedroom on the first floor, which is without
a fireplace, and only 7 feet by 6 feet, is too small for separate accommodation
; it would be better to throw this space into the adjoining
bedroom, and screen a part off for a separate bedroom, if required."
The above suggestions being in advance of the Board's model
bye-laws with regard to new buildings, and involving an additional
cost of £600 on the estimate of the Borough Engineer, on December
9th a deputation from the Council waited upon the Board, and
ultimately accepted all the suggestions, save the provision of dividing