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WORK OF 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 and Caretaker's Lodge).
(c) Prospect Terrace Dwellings, Gray's Inn Road (71 flats).
(d) Una House, Prince of Wales Road (64 flats).
(e) The Brookfield Estate, Highgate (113 flats, 90 maisonettes and 2 houses).
(f) Somers Town Estate (142 flats), consisting of Aldenham House (26 flats),
Wolcot House (18 flats), Johnson House (26 flats), Gladwin House (18 flats),
Clarendon House (36 flats), and Morland House (18 flats).
(g) Barnes House, Camden Road (22 flats).
(h) Kennistoun House, Leighton Road (64 flats).
(i) 32 and 33, Johnson Street.
(j) 110, Leighton Road.
(k) 13 and 15, Bayham Place.
(l) 15, Willes Road.
(m) 24, Grafton Road.
(n) 20 and 22, High Street and 3 and 5, Little King Street.
(o) 41 and 47, Stanhope Street.
(p) 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159 and 161, Great College Street.
(q) 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15, Georgiana Street.
(r) 67, 69 and 71, Pratt Street.
(s) 3, James Street.
(t) 207, Arlington Road.
(u) Oak House and Wellington House, East Finchley.
Preference is given to persons residing in the Borough when vacancies occur in the
Council's dwellings, and preferential consideration is given to applications where the housing
conditions are extremely bad, and in all cases persons with families receive first consideration.
During the past year there have been 77 changes of tenancies in the Council's properties.
Kennistoun House, Leighton Road.
This estate was practically completed by the end of the year and arrangements
were made for it to be opened officially by His Worship the Mayor (Councillor Frederic
Hewson, j.p.) early in the new year. The accommodation comprises 30 four-room, 28 three-