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HOUSING SCHEMES.
WORK OP THE ESTATES COMMITTEE OF THE BOROUGH COUNCIL.
The following account of the principal matters dealt with during the year has been
furnished by Mr. W. C. W. Roworth, Clerk to the Estates Committee:—
The Estates Committee is appointed by the Council to "take over, control and manage
"all houses and other properties of the Council, except such as are used by any department of
"the Council for its own purposes; to see that such houses and properties are kept in
"tenantable condition and let at reasonable rents; to prepare schemes under the Housing of
"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 (56 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, Ahlenham Street, Somers Town (26 flats).
(g) Wolcot House, Aldenham Street, Somers Town (18 flats).
(h) Johnson House, Johnson Street, Somers Town (26 flats).
(i) Gladwin House, Johnson Street, Somers Town (18 flats).
(j) Clarendon House, Clarendon Street, Somers Town (36 flats).
(k) 110 and 112, Leighton Road, Kentish Town.
(l) 40, Argyle Square (the main part of the premises is used as a Maternity and
Child Welfare Centre and Dental Clinic, but four rooms in the house are let).
(m) 13 and 15, Bayham Place, Camden Town.
(n) 15, Willes Road, Kentish Town.
(o) 24, Grafton Road, Kentish Town.
(p) 20 and 22, High Street and 3 and 5, Little King Street, Camden Town.
(q) 5, Camden Road (the lower part is used as Electricity Showrooms, and the
upper part let in rooms).
(r) 41 and 47, Stanhope Street, Regent's Park.
(s) 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159 and 161, Great College Street,
Camden Town.
(t) 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15, Georgiana Street, Camden Town.
(u) 3, James Street, Camden Town.
(v) 207, Arlington Road.
Preference is given to persons residing in the Borough when vacancies occur in the
Council's dwellings, and applications are dealt with in priority, but priority is given in some cases
where the housing conditions arc extremely bad, and in all cases persons with families receive
first consideration. During the past year there have been 43 changes of tenancies in the
Council's properties, and the opening of the final block of d wellings in the Somers Town
Housing Scheme (Wolcot Street Area) has found accommodation for another 36 families.