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1 (A) Part of ana west of Chalten Street and north of Drummond Street
line.—The houses in this area were dealt with individually under the Public
Health Act years ago.
1 (e).—Part of area east of Chalt on Street.—In continuation of the history
of the Chapel Grove and Eastnor Place Schemes. The schemes of 1898.
amended in 1901, relating to these two areas were embodied in one Order by
the Local Government board, and a notice thereof published in the "London
Gazette." The Midland Railway Company having acquired the land in 1898,
petitioned against the Order in December, 1905, as did also a leaseholder, and
the Order of the Local Government Board sanctioning and embodying the
schemes became "provisional." On the 17th February, 1906, the Directors of
the Midland Railway Company, by letter, suggested that the Borough Council
should endeavour to find another site for the erection of the new buildings for
re-housing persons proposed to be disturbed under this scheme. The Local
Government Board introduced a Bill into the House of Commons entitled '' An
Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Local Government Board relating to
the Metropolitan Borough of St. Pancras." This Act was passed on the 4th
August, 1906. It is provided in the Act (section I) that "the Order set out in
the schedule hereto shall be and the same is hereby confirmed and all the
provisions thereof shall have full validity and force as from a date to be fixed
by an Order of the Local Government Board, not being less than twelve
months from the passing of this Act."
AREAS No. 2 and 3.
Prospect Terrace and Brantome Place Order.—In the Order the number of
persons to be displaced from these two areas is 1,165, and the number to be
re-lioused on the three sites scheduled in the Order is 842 persons. The
position with regard to the three sites is as follows:—
(а) Great College Street Site.—On this additional vacant site included in
the Order of the Local Government Board for the purpose of
housing part of the persons displaced from the Brantome Place and
Prospect Terrace areas, Goldington Buildings were erected and
opened in 1904, and are fully occupied. These buildings were
described under the head of 9
Working Class tlats in the Annual
Report for 1905, p. 108, and accommodate 332 persons, or 10 more
than required on this site by the Order of the Local Government
Board.
(b) Brantome Place Area.—The erection of dwellings upon the cleared
area of Brantome Place was further considered. In March the
Borough Council set aside The plans approved by the Borough
Council, the County Council, the Local Government Board, and the
Skinners Company in 1901-2, as being too expensive and unsatisfactory,
on account of the washhouses, sculleries, sinks, and w.c.'s
being used in common on each floor, and considered it undesirable to
have dwellings of the associated type and to substitute for them
dwellings of the self-contained type. Accordingly plans of selfcontained
type of dwellings were prepared, and after consideration
and re-consideration approved by the Borough Council, the County
Council, the Local Government Board, and the Skinners Company