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supplemental and to the modified Schemes. Revised Estimates as to the cost of
the land, the erection of the dwellings, and the probable income and expenditure
for the Bran tome Place and Prospect, Terrace Sites were approved and
adopted. Revised plans for the buildings on these sites were also approved
and adopted, and instructions given to prepare the necessary plans, sections,
and elevations for their erection. The plans, &c., for each of these two Sites
were approved and adopted on the 6th November and forwarded for approval
to the Local Government Board and County Council.
Great College Street Site (Supplemental Scheme)—On the 26th June it was
reported to your Council that the value of the Great College Street Site free
from any restriction as to the class of building to be erected was estimated to
be i.7700, and when restricted to the erection of working class dwelling
£3850. A revised estimate of cost, income, and expenditure in refereuce to
the proposed dwellings was approved and adopted. The plans, sections, and
elevations for the erection of the dwellings were approved and adopted, and
forwarded for the approval of the County Council and Local Government
Board. It was reported to your Council on the 4th September, that the Local
Government Board, and County Council having approved of the plans of the
proposed buildings to be erected on the vacant site in Great College Street,
the Supplemental Improvement Scheme had been sealed and forwarded to
those bodies.
The modified and supplemental schemes relating to the three above-named
sites were reported to your Council on the 27th November as having been
embodied in one Order of the Local Government Board for sanctioning
Schemes for Re-construction under Part II. of the Housing of the Working
Classes Act, 1890, embracing the Brantome Place Improvement Scheme,
1896, the Prospect Terrace Improvement Scheme, 189H, and also the Great
College Street Supplemental Scheme, together with conditions attached. The
Order was sealed by the Local Government Board on the 7th of December,
1901.
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PART III.
This part of the Act was formally adopted by your Borough Council on the
6th February. On the 28th June a Conference of Representatives of the
Metropolitan Boroughs was held at the County Hall, Spring Gardens, to consider
the Housing of the Working Classes Act, when the following resolutions
were adopted :—
1.—That it is desirable, with a view to avoiding dual control and overlapping
expenditure, that no scheme for the housing of the working
classes in any Metropolitan Borough should be promoted by either
the London County Council or the Council of any Metropolitan
Borough, pursuant to Part III. of the Housing of the Working
Classes Act, 1890, except after due consultation between the two
Councils, (a) as to the desirableness of the scheme, and (b) in order
that the cost of such scheme may be fairly apportioned between the
County and the particular Borough.
2.—That in order to ascertain the immediate responsibility and requirements
of each Borough Council a simultaneous special inquiry be
made by each Council as to the number of the working class that it