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ample and in good order, is the only sound economic policy for Westminster.
The Council has already undertaken many large housing schemes, and its
five years' programme is a further genuine effort to meet the needs of the
working classes of the City.
Provision of New Houses for the Working Classes.
Ebury Bridge Housing Estate Extension Scheme.— In order that the
City Council should have accommodation ready for the tenants who will
be displaced by the various schemes of clearance it was decided to
provide new flats on a site adjoining Ebury Bridge Housing Estate.
The scheme provides for the erection of 280 flats, of 840 rooms (exclusive
of kitchenettes). When completed this estate will provide accommodation
for approximately 1,380 persons.
Grosvenor Housing Scheme.— Work was commenced in September,
on the last portion of the Council's Grosvenor Housing Scheme. The
final block (Bennett House), of some 96 flats will complete the 616
working class flats in the scheme.
Tachbrook Estate, Pulford Street.—This estate, owned by the Westminster
Housing Trust, Ltd., of which details have been given in earlier reports,
was nearing completion at the end of the year. Two blocks containing
15 flats each were completed in 1933, and four blocks containing a total
of 110 flats were erected during 1934. The remaining 40 flats were well in
hand at the end of the year.
Of the 140 families so far rehoused, 67 were tenants of the Trust's
houses in Pulford Street, which stood on a part of the site acquired for the
new dwellings. Twenty-two of the remaining 73 families were nominees
of the City Council under the agreement between the Trust and the
Council, by which the latter are entitled to nominate a proportion (27) of
the first tenants of the 180 flats.
Peabody Estate, Orchard Street.—In March, the City Council agreed to
lease to the Peabody Donation Fund, for a term of 999 years at a pepper
corn rent, a strip of surplus land at the corner of Great Peter Street and
Perkins Rents which had been acquired in 1920 for street widening
purposes and which was not suitable for development by itself. The
Fund proposed to purchase the adjoining site occupied by the Church
Army Common Lodging house, No. 40, Great Peter Street, and to erect
on the two sites a block of 15 self-contained flats as an extension of their