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Council for the Churchway Area, for which the Home Office made a Provisional
Order, and has now become an Act of Parliament, the Council is displacing 1086
persons and re-housing 580 persons, or only little more than one half of the
population. A communication was addressed to the Council asking them to provide
accommodation for an additional number of persons to the 580 provided for by the
Act, either under Part III. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, or
in some other manner. In reply, the Council stated that the Housing of the
Working Classes Committee were advised that it would not be practicable to make
any appreciable difference in the number now proposed to be accommodated on
the area to be cleared, and asked the Vestry to indicate what site or sites in the
Borough are, in their opinion, suitable for the erection of dwellings thereon.
A communication was also received from the Valuer to the Council, enclosing
a plan and proposing a modification of this Scheme, the amendment being that
instead of continuing a narrow strip of small dwellings on each side of Wellesley
Street, to abolish Wellesley Street, and on the site of the roadway to erect a block of
dwellings, leaving ample space on the north and south sides of the buildings, which
will also open up the backs of the houses on the south sides of Lancing Street and
the north side of Grafton Place.
With a view to assisting the London County Council in carrying out the
improvement, your Vestry in March last, rescinded their former resolution, and
agreed to the Scheme being modified by the abolition of Wellesley Street, and the
erection of a block of dwellings thereon as proposed by the Council.
Brantome Place and Prospect Terrace Areas. —With reference to the communication
mentioned in the last Annual Report as received from the Local Government
Board, dated 18th October, 1897, stating "that the Board must require the Vestry
to submit proposals for the re-housing of a much greater number of persons than the
number for which their present Schemes would provide," details from Mr. Keith
Young as to the amount of additional cubic space that could be provided upon
these Areas, were supplied, and your Vestry resolved that the requirements of the
Local Government Board made in their letter of the 25th June, 1897, be accepted,
and that dwelling accommodation be constructed on the Brantome Place and
Prospect Terrace Areas, so as to provide 500 cubic feet of dwelling space for each
person rehoused on the sites, and further, that additional lands be acquired for
re-housing the remainder of the persons not re-housed on the aforesaid sites.
A further communication from the Local Government Board with reference
to the improvement of these Areas was received asking to be furnished with copies
of an amended Scheme and Plans showing (1) the additional lands proposed to be
acquired for the purpose of re-housing displaced persons who will not be accommodated
on the sites which are to be cleared; (2) the number of persons who will
thus be re-housed; (3) plans showing how it is proposed that the areas shall be
laid out; and (4) a revised estimate of the cost of the Schemes.
Sites for this purpose were viewed by the Health Committee and submitted
to your Vestry on the 21st December, as follows:—Early Mews, Equity Buildings,
Harrison Street, Wakefield Mews, Greenland Place, Elm Road, Great College
Street Stone yard, Camden Street, Rochester Place, Leighton Road, Cromer Street,
Georgiana Street Stone yard, Purchese Street. The last three were found
unobtainable or unsuitable.