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Individual Houses not .Capable of Repair at a Reasonable Cost.
During 1933, closing orders were issued in respect of the nine houses in Stanley Gardens Mews
and the eleven houses in Pelham Mews. In the case of the former mews three houses are now empty,
and in the latter case all the eleven houses have been cleared of tenants. Official action has not
yet been taken in regard to Roseland Place and Albion Place.
Reconditioning.
The work under this heading is dealt with on page 42.
It will be observed that considerable progress has been made in connection with the five years
programme, and at the time of writing (April, 1934) the programme is proceeding in clocklike fashion.
HOUSING ACCOMMODATION ALREADY PROVIDED OR APPROVED BY THE
BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The council have adopted the Octavia Hill system of management by women property managers
for their properties in the Notting Dale and Kensal Town districts of the borough.
ACCOMMODATION PROVIDED IN THE BOROUGH BY HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS.
The property owned by the several voluntary housing associations operating within the borough
is shown below.
A. The Kensington Housing Trust own 24 freehold houses, 80 freehold flats and 51 leasehold
houses.
In the latter part of the year work was begun on a site at Dalgarno Gardens, about one acre
in extent, leased to the Trust by the Kensington Borough Council at a peppercorn rent for 999
years. The proposed building will comprise eighty flats, and it is hoped that they will be ready for
occupation in the autumn of 1934.
B. The Wilsham Housing Trust own 75 single family houses, 66 self-contained flats and 54
houses let in lodgings.
C. The Improved Tenements Association acquired during the year the freeholds of ten houses
and the leaseholds of fifteen. At the end of the year they held 173 freehold houses, 67 leasehold
houses and 53 freehold ground rents.
D. Several smaller housing associations, closely associated in management with the Wilsham
Trust, owned at the end of the year 39 houses and 14 flats.
E. In the year 1929 the Sutton Trustees acquired a large building plot of about eight acres
in Dalgarno Gardens and built 540 flats.
F. In 1932 the council acquired the last remaining building site of any size in the borough.
It measures approximately 9J acres and adjoins the Sutton Trust Estate.
The Peabody Donation Fund have taken over on a long lease at a nominal rent about five
acres of the land and are building blocks of flats which will eventually provide accommodation for
1,607 persons. Accommodation will be available in 1934 for 645 persons, in 1936 for 554 persons,
and in 1938 for 408 persons.
As mentioned above, the Kensington Housing Trust have taken over at a nominal rent one
acre of the land and are now building flats to accommodate 492 persons.
The Sutton Trustees have purchased approximately one acre of the land and are now engaged
in building flats which are expected to be ready in 1934 and to provide accommodation for 694
persons.
The total number of flats which will ultimately be erected at Dalgarno Gardens by these three
housing associations is 545.