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dresser, coal bunk, a small gas cooking range, and also an improved form of
the double-faced range as suggested by His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales. By lifting up a shutter in the middle of this range the fire can be
transferred into the living room, which adjoins the scullery, so that the
tenants need only light one fire, which will serve for cooking and heating
purposes.
Every bedroom will be fitted up with a dress cupboard with shelves and
pegs for hanging clothes thereon.
The buildings will be lighted with incandescent gas.
The Superintendent will be situated in a two-storey lodge adjoining the
main buildings. The basement of this lodge will be utilised as a drying room
to enable the tenants to dry their clothes. A small charge will be made
for this.
At the rear of the buildings there will be situated a large number of perambulator
and bicycle sheds for the use of the tenants, for which a charge of Id.
or 2d. per week will be made.
The rents proposed to be charged will be:—
10s. per week for a three-room tenement.
7s. per week for a two-room tenement.
The living rooms will have an average area of 160 feet.
The bedrooms of the two-room tenements will have an average area of
129 feet.
The two bedrooms of the three-room tenements will have an average area
of 108 feet and 102 feet respectively.
The total cost of the buildings, exclusive of the cost of the land, will
amount to about £22,000, and the rents have been so adjusted as to make the
undertaking self-supporting, involving no charge upon the rates.
(c) Prospect Terrace Area.—This area was chared in 1906 as related in the
Report for that year. The Borough Council decided to set aside the plan
prepared in 1901 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 that it was undesirable to have dwellings of the associated type, and to
substitute for them dwellings of the self-contained type. Accordingly, plans
of this type of dwelling were prepared by Messrs. Joseph & Smithem. The
proposals included the erection of 36 three-room tenements and 34 two-room
tenements, and a caretaker'a lodge, comprising 12 baths, a drying room for the
use of the tenants, and also 2 two-room tenements for letting. The scheme
approved on 5th June, 1907 was to rehouse 352 persons as compared with 140
in the original scheme. The specification was considered and revised. The
Architect's estimated cost of the buildings was £16,977, and the rents with
the rates at 7s. 1d. in the £ was given by them as 3s. 4d. per room per week
for the three-room tenements, and 3s. 6d. per week for the two-room tenements,
and the number to be rehoused under the revised proposals 352.