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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health—1895. 57
THE HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACT, 1890.
PART II.
No. 4.
London (Falcon Court, Borough) Improvement
Scheme, 1895.
scheme
For the improvement of an area situate in the Parish of St. George the
Martyr, Southwark, in the County of London, in pursuance of the
provisions of Part II. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act,
1890.
PRELIMINARY.
Whereas under the provisions of the 39th Section of Housing of the Working
Classes Act, 1890, the London County Council (hereinafter called "the Council")
did on the 2nd of July, 1895, pass a resolution that it appeared to the Council that
the closeness, narrowness, bad arrangement, and bad condition of the buildings
situate upon a certain area known as the Falcon Court, Borough, area,
comprising houses in Birdcage Alley, Falcon Court, Brent's Court, Eve's Place
(lately known as Adam's Place), Redcross Place and Maypole Alley, in the parish
of St. George the Martyr, Southwark, in the County of London, delineated and
coloured red on the plan then before the Council marked "A," and the want of light,
air, ventilation, and proper conveniences, and other sanitary defects in the said
buildings were dangerous or prejudicial to the health of the inhabitants of the
said buildings and of the neighbouring buildings; and that the demolition, re-construction,
and re-arrangement of the said buildings was necessary to remedy the
said evils, and that the area comprising those buildings, and the yards, outhouses,
and appurtenances thereof, and the site thereof was too small to be dealt with as
an healthy area under Part I. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890,
and the Council did by that resolution direct a scheme to be prepared under Part
II. of the said Act for the improvement of the said area.
Now, therefore, the Council in furtherance of such resolution, and in pursuance
of the provisions of the said Act, and the powers of the said Act, conferred upon
it, doth make the scheme following, that is to say:—
IMPROVEMENT AREA.
The lands, buildings, and premises delineated and coloured red on the plan
marked Part II. (No. 4) to this scheme annexed, on which plan the buildings referred
to in the before-recited resolution are coloured red, are the lands and buildings
situate in the Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark, in the County of
London, which constitute the Improvement Area, to which the scheme refers.