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proposed to be demolished, and recommended the Council to concur in
this opinion, and the Local Government Board be so informed.
The London County Council proposed to demolish Nos. 8 and 9,
Coborn Street, for extension of Malmesbury Road School, and asked the
Local Government Board to decide that a scheme for the provision of
new dwellings to accommodate persons of the working class, who would
be displaced, was unnecessary. The London County Council pointed
out there were 600 rooms available within a quarter of a mile, and the
11 persons to be displaced would experience no difficulty in finding new
accommodation. The Local Government Board forwarded copy of the
application for the observations of the Borough Council.
The Public Health and Housing Committee were of opinion a scheme
for re-housing the persons to be displaced was unnecessary, and recommended
the Council to concur in this opinion, and the Local Government
Board be so informed.
Proposed Sale of Housing Land (London County Council).
Notice of motion was given to move—
"That this Council emphatically protests against the proposal
now before the London County Council to sell or lease to private
persons 200 acres of land which have been acquired by past Councils
for the purpose of housing the people, to so do being a gross breach
of trust, the London County Council having no mandate from the
people to do so. That copies of this resolution be forwarded to the
London County Council, the members of the London County Council,
and the President of the Local Government Board."
National Housing Congress.
Together with the Chairman of the Public Health and Housing
Committee (Mr. Councillor A. H. Darby), the Medical Officer attended
the National Housing Congress, held at the Westminster Palace Hotel,
on the 4th and 5th May. The Congress was convened by the National
Housing Reform Council, to discuss the provisions of the Housing and
Town Planning Bill introduced into Parliament by the President of the
Local Government Board.
More than three hundred delegates and representatives attended the
great Housing Congress to discuss the provisions of Mr. Burns's Housing