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Housing Accommodation provided by the Borough Council.
The following is a list of the properties owned and managed by the borough council:—
No. of houses
Situation of properties. or flats.
Kenley Street, Seymour King Buildings, 4, Hesketh Place and 6, Runcorn
Place 120
St. James's Place, Bosworth Road, Sirdar Road, Hesketh Place, Runcorn
Place, Walmer Road and Windsor House 103
Southam House 9
Powis Square, Colville Terrace, Elgin Crescent, 85, Ladbroke Grove,
47, Bassett Road and 20a, Adair Road (conversions) 102
St. Quintin Estate (Sec. 1 & 2), and Avondale Park Gardens 116
St. Quintin Estate (Sec. 3, 4 & 5), Threshers Place, etc. 131
Morland House 20
Talbot Grove and Mews 44
(To be completed during 1935.)
In addition to the above property within the borough, the council, by virtue of rate contributions
to the county council, have the right to nominate tenants to 99 county council houses on the
Wormholt estate, and 50 houses on other county council estates.
Accommodation provided in the Borough by Housing Associations.
The property owned by the voluntary housing associations operating within the borough is
shown below :—
A.-—The Kensington Housing Trust own two freehold houses, 157 flats and 51 leasehold houses.
In October, 1934, a block of 80 flats was completed 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.
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 18 houses and
the leaseholds of 15. At the end of the year they held 191 freehold houses, 82 leasehold
houses and 36 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 1929 the Sutton Trustees acquired a large building plot of about eight acres in Dalgarno
Gardens, and built 540 flats. During 1934 a further 101 flats were erected on approximately
one acre of land at Dalgarno Gardens.
E.—The Peabody Donation Fund have taken over on a long lease at a nominal rent about five acres
of land at Dalgarno Gardens, and are building blocks of flats which will eventually provide
accommodation for 1,607 persons. During 1934 a block of 142 flats was erected, and further
blocks are to be erected during the next two or three years.
G.—The council have approved plans of 68 flats to be erected by the Gas Light and Coke
Company on land owned by them at the northern end of Ladbroke Grove.
The houses owned by the council in the Notting Dale and Kensal Town districts of the Borough,
the property owned by the Kensington Housing Trust, the Wilsham Housing Trust, the Improved
Tenements Association and the smaller housing associations, are managed by women property
managers, who hold frequent conferences and are of great assistance to one another in relieving
cases of overcrowding which arise owing to changes in the size of families. The very large amount
of housing accommodation, totalling over 2,200 houses or flats in North Kensington, which is now
under the control of enlightened management, is a very important factor in the considerable
improvement which is taking place in the housing conditions in that part of the borough.
Common Lodging Houses.
Common lodging houses must be licensed annually, and the 30th June of each year has been
fixed by the council as the date of the expiration of each licence.