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The Council entered into an agreement with the Board of Guardians
for the utilisation of the disused workhouse at Wallis's Yard for the rehousing
of persons dishoused from Chadwick Street and Great Peter
Street, but the agreement was terminated by the Guardians last autumn,
but most of the 70 inmates are still in residence.
The Council had for some time endeavoured to find a suitable site for
the erection of a block of buildings, and eventually accepted an offer
by the Duke of Westminster to lease a vacant site situated at the northeast
corner of Pimlico Road with a frontage to that road of 92 feet,
a frontage to Ebury Square of 85 feet, and a frontage to Avery Farm
Row of 103 feet, and contains approximately 15,000 feet super. The
St. Michael's National Schools and blocks of working class dwellings are
in the immediate vicinity.
It is proposed to erect a block of buildings comprising 32 tenements,
containing four 5-room, sixteen 4-room and twelve 3-room tenements,
making in all 120 rooms exclusive of sculleries and bathrooms, capable of
housing approximately 300 persons.
The scheme is now waiting the sanction of the Ministry of Health.