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In addition, the rent of twelve of the end tenements to he increased by
one shilling per week on account of the excellent position and size of the
rooms, and the rents of six of the flank tenements to be reduced by one
shilling per week, inasmuch as the rooms are somewhat at dark. This will have
the effect of increasing the gross weekly rental of £38 14s., shown in the
foregoing table, to £39 per week.
The buildings contain 48 three-room dwellings and 36 two-room dwellings,
in all 2l6 rooms, intended to house 432 persons, in 84 self-contained dwellings.
On the 29th October, 1908, Flaxman Terrace was formally opened by His
Worship the Mayor, Councillor Alfred Mills, J.P., and within a few weeks was
fully occupied.
(c.) Prospect Terrace Area.—An Inquiry was held by Edgar Dudley Esq.,
F.S.I., an Inspector appointed by the Local Government Board, at the Town
Hall, Pancras Road, N.W., on Monday, the 24th August last, with regard to
the application of the St. Pancras Borough Council to the Local Government
Board for the issue of an Order permitting the Council to further modify the
Scheme in regard to the Prospect Terrace area by the substitution of three
hundred and fifty-two for one hundred and forty-four as the number of persons
for whom suitable dwellings are to be erected on the Prospect Terrace area.
Under Article 3a of the Order of the Local Government Board of the
7th December, 1901, suitable dwellings, according to plans to be prepared by
the Borough Council and agreed upon between them and the London County
Council, were to be erected on the Brantome Place area for the accommodation
of 430 persons of the working classes, on the Prospect Terrace area a for the
accommodation of 144, and on the Great College Street site for 322 persons.
432 persons had been provided for upon the Brantome Place area, and 322
upon the Great College Street site. With regard to the 144 persons to
be accommodated on the Prospect Terrace area the Borough Council desired
to provide for 352 persons on this site.
Under Article 14 of the 1901 Order, it was provided that half of each area
should be cleared before the other half be constructed. This part of the Older
was departed from by the Borough Council, the London County Council consenting.
Goldington Buildings were erected on the Great College Street site
before the Brantome Place area was clcared, and it was deemed advisable to
clear the whole of the Brantone Place area before clearing the Prospect
Terrace area. Before the buildings on the Brantome Place area could be
completed, owing to the delays caused by the negotiations with the Skinners
Company (between March, 19 2, and November, 1903, before the confirmation
of the Order by the Local Government Board, and subsequent to the
confirmation between July, 1905, and July, 1906), the Prospect Terrace
property became unfit for human habitation, and the Borough Council having
found by enquiry that there was abundance of vacant housing accommodation
in the vicinity, decided to give the tenants all information with regard to the
accommodation available, and to give them notice to quit the premises, and to
demolish the houses on the Prospect Terrace area.
In 1907, when the Brantome Place Buildings were well advanced, the
plans attached to the Scheme and Order of the Local Government Board of