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32 two-roomed flats at a rent of 5s. 6d. per week.
67 three-roomed cottages at rents of 7s. to 8s. per week.
97 four-roomed cottages at rents of 8s. 6d. and 9s. per week.
3 five-roomed cottages at a rent of 11s. per week.
1 shop at a rent of £25 a year net.
Total 200 tenements containing 676 rooms and one shop.
Each cottage and cottage flat would in addition contain a
scullery and separate sanitary convenience, and accommodation
would be afforded, on the usual basis of two persons to each habitable
room, for 1,352 persons. This provision, it will be observed, would
be much in access of that which the Local Government Board
requires in order to meet the displacement in Poplar, and might
become useful in connection with any further displacements which
the Council may have to make in certain districts south of the
Thames. The rents mentioned, which are inclusive of rates, are
generally those ruling in the neighbourhood and would be subject
to adjustment as local conditions varied.
Before proceeding with the preparation of a draft scheme for
the approval of the Council, the Committee will be glad to know
whether the Local Government Board woxdd be prepared, subject
to the submission of a detailed scheme, to regard working class
dwellings erected on the sites indicated as the accommodation
required to be provided in connection with the displacements now
under consideration."
In reply, under date of 20th August, 1914, the Local Government Board
stated that:—
"Before definitely approving of the proposal to erect the required
dwellings on the sites in East Greenwich referred to, it will be neccessary
for the Board to consider any observations on the subject
which may be made by the Metropolitan Borough Council of Poplar,
with whom the Board are in communication.
Subject to the observations which the Metropolitan Borough
Council may make, the Board will be disposed to accept the proposed
sites as suitable.
In the meantime the Board would suggest that the County
Council might proceed with the preparation of the draft scheme
under the Act on the assumption that the sites in Tunnel Avenue
will be accepted. The scheme required by the Board extends only
to the provision of accommodation of 750 persons, and those sites
may possibly be found sufficient for that number,"