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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, Administrative Officer:—
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 (146 flats), consisting of Aldenham House (26 flats),
Wolcot House (18 flats), Johnson House (30 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) Denyer House (44 flats).
(j) Ferdinand Place Estate (111 flats), consisting of Harmood House (62 flats),
Ferdinand House (31 Hats), and Powlett House (18 flats), not yet completed.
(k) Cobden House, Arlington Road (55) flats.
(l) 13 and 15, Bayham Place.
(m) 15, Willes Road (flat over filtration plant of Prince of Wales Road Baths).
(n) 24, Grafton Road.
(o) 41 and 47, Stanhope Street.
(p) 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159 and 161, Great College Street.
(q) 9, 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.
(v) 287 and 289, Camden High Street.
Preference is given to persons residing in the Borough when vacancies occur on the
Council's estates, and preferential consideration is given to families displaced from insanitary
property or those living under overcrowded conditions. During the past year there have
been 87 changes of tenancies in the Council's properties.
Leighton Road Site.
The scheme submitted by the Council's Architect, Mr. A. J. Thomas, f.r.i.b.a., and
approved by the London County Council, provides for the erection of 6 one-room, 2 two-room,
16 three-room, 68 four-room and 6 five-room tenements, a total of 98 flats, consisting of 360