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"the Working Classes Acts for the improvement or reconstruction of insanitary areas, and to
"supervise the erection of houses for the working classes; and to deal with such other
"matters as may be referred to the Committee by the Council,"
The dwellings controlled by the Committee comprise:—
(a) Goldington Buildings, Great College Street (57 flats).
(b) Flaxman Terrace Dwellings, Euston Road (84 flats).
(c) Prospect Terrace Dwellings, Gray's Inn Road (71 flats).
(d) Una House, Prince of Wales Road (65 flats).
(e) The Brookfield Estate, Highgate (110 flats, 90 maisonettes and 2 houses).
(f) Aldenham House, Aldenham Street, Somers Town (26 flats).
(g) Wolcot House, Aldenham Street, Somers Town (18 flats).
(h) 110 and 112, Leighton Road, Kentish Town.
(i) 40, Argyle Square (the main part of the premises are used as a Maternity and
Child Welfare Centre and Dental Clinic, but rooms in the upper part of the
house are let).
(j) 13 and 15, Bayham Place, Camden Town.
(k) 15, Willes Road, Kentish Town.
(i) 24, Grafton Road, Kentish Town.
(m) 20 and 22, High Street and 3 and 5, Little King Street, Camden Town.
(n) 5, Camden Road (the lower part is used as Electricity Showrooms, and the
upper part let in rooms).
(o) 63, Pratt Street, Camden Town.
(p) 41 and 47, Stanhope Street, Regent's Park.
(q) 155, 157, 159 and 161, Great College Street, Camden Town.
(r) 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15, Georgiana Street, Camden Town.
The vacancies occurring in the Council's dwellings are filled from a waiting list of
applicants, which is an extensive one, and preference is given to St. Tancras families. It is
worth remarking that during the year under review (1928), 55 changes of tenancies occurred
in the above-mentioned premises, and the housing conditions of that number of families were
accordingly improved.
Somers Town Housing Scheme (Wolcot Street Area).
On the 25th July, 1928, the first stage of the Borough Council's housing scheme in
Somers Town was celebrated by H.R.H. The Princess Mary Viscountess Lascelles opening
Aldenham House and Wolcot House, which comprise 44 tenements. Two further blocks of
dwellings, comprising another 44 flats, are now under construction and expected to be ready
for occupation during the summer of 1929.
The Minister of Health was again requested to contribute a Government subsidy
towards the annual financial loss, but he informed the Council that he could not see any
sufficient ground for departing from the decision conveyed to the Council in 1923, that no
financial assistance from the State would be granted in respect of the scheme. The entire
cost therefore devolves upon the Council and the annual loss falls upon the local rates.
A fifth block, comprising 36 dwellings, is proposed to be built later on the abutting site
in Clarendon Street, in respect of which application will be made for the State subsidy.
The weekly rents, inclusive of current rates (March, 1929) and water charges,
are:—13s. 7d. for two-room; It's. 5d. for three-room ; and 18s. 8d. for four-room tenements.
Each tenement also includes a kitchen containing a gas cooker, copper, bath, sink,
larder and dresser.