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and replanning the ground to better advantage. Unfortunately the
cost of land is high in the borough and a large initial outlay would
result in difficulty in providing houses or flats at an economic rental.
In this connection the Housing Committee has under consideration
the problem of the erection of flats and of possible
housing sites in the borough. In July the Council adopted the
recommendation of the Housing Committee that a competition be
held in respect of the preparation of plans for flats to be erected in
the Glebe Place site.
The Housing Committee subsequently considered the following
two suggestions :—•
(1) That a subsidy might be obtained in respect of the proposed
Glebe Place flats when the provisions of the new Housing Bill, 1935,
were known.
(2) That the Council might purchase the site in Lordship
Terrace between the present Lordship Terrace housing site and
Queen Elizabeth's Walk from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
It was pointed out that the Council would thus possess a selfcontained
housing scheme and might consider the advisability of
selling the Glebe Place Site to the London County Council.
The area of the Glebe Place site (inside improvement lines) is
1T7 acres and the area of the land in Lordship Terrace owned by
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners adjoining the Council's present
housing estate is 1'43 acres (after deducting the area of the land
agreed by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to.be utilised for roadwidening
in Lordship Terrace).
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners, however, when approached
with regard to this site, were not prepared at that time to sell the
land adjoining the Lordship Terrace Site, but subsequently agreed
to sell this site to the London County Council for Housing purposes.