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Lewisham.—No occasion to deal with any insanitary areas.
St. Olave, Southwakk.—No scheme.
St. Pancras—Vestry's Scheme proceeding. Plot of vacant land (Great College
Street site), purchased in 1890 at £3 14s. per square yard. Site for
Baths and Washhouses, Prince of Wales Road, N.W., purchased in 1899
at about £4 13s. per square yard.
The "Great Towns,"
arranged according to population at the census of 1891.
1. Liverpool Schemes under the Liverpool Sanitary Amendment
Act, 1864, have averaged 30s. per yard for land
and buildings. One scheme (Nash Grove) under
the Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings Act, 1875,
cost about £3 per yard for land and buildings.
2. Manchester Cost per square yard, estimated at thirty years' purchase,
in unhealthy areas, Housing of Working Classes Act,
1890, Part I., Oldham Road (Block I.), £5 14s. 4d.,
(Block II.), £4 19s. 2d; Pollard Street,
£1 14s. 10½d; Lord Street, £2 2s. 6d.; Love Lane,
£1 16s. Id.—Part II., Chester Street, £2 13s. 5d.;
Pott Street, £2 10s. 3d. Outside unhealthy areas,
estimated at twenty-five years' purchase, the cost of
land has been per square yard 6s. 3d. at Miles
Platting.
3 Birmingham Under the Artisans' Dwellings Act, 1875, in part of
unhealthy area (Ryder Street) the land cost 38s.
per square yard; outside, between Summer Lane
and Newtown Row, additional land cost 5s. 10½d.
per square yard, exclusive of sewering, paving, &c.
Under the Housing of Working Classes Act, Part I.,
in the Milk street unhealthy area the total cost was
equal to 30s. per square yard.
4. Leeds Price of land (and buildings) in insanitary areas with
cottage property on it has averaged £3 per square
yard, with other interests on it the price has been
higher. Additional ground for building ten houses
under Part II. scheme cost 7s. 3d. per yard, inclusive
of streets. Corporate land at East End, near tramway,
sold to builders for erection of workmen's
buildings at 1s. 8d. to 2s. 4d. per yard. Prices
include half width of street, and exclude paving,
kerbing, and sewering.
5. Sheffield Cost per square yard for vacant land in unhealthy
areas has been from £1 to £1 10s. Od. No additional
land purchased outside.
6. Bristol No scheme under the Housing of Working Classes
Act. Corporation has acquired properties for
erecting dwelling houses for the working classes
under Part III., Housing of Working Classes Act,
1890, cost of land being 25s. to 30s. per square yard.