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(e) Canal Boat Dwellings.— During the year 74 visits of inspection were paid
to the 31 wharves on the Regent's Canal.
(f) Working-Class Flats.— A list of the principal of these and the accommodation
provided will be found in the Appendix to this Report.
(g.) —HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACTS.
Part I.
Area No. 1.—Somers Town.
1(a).—Churchway Scheme.— In continuation of the previous Annual Reports
on the subject of housing, this scheme was completed by the London County
Council; the other schemes are moving as described here following.
1(b).—Part of area west of Charton Street and north of Drummond Street
line.—The houses in this area were dealt with individually under the Public
Health Act years ago.
1(c).—Part of area east of Chalton Street.—In continuation of the history of
the Chapel Grove and Eastnor Place Schemes. The schemes of 1898, amended
in 1901, relating to those 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 rehousing
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 1) 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 Nos. 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 rehoused
on the three sites scheduled in the Order is 842 persons. The position
with regard to the three sites is as follows:—
(a) 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 (f) Working Class Flats 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.