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rooms. A contract to carry out the work has been entered into with Messrs. M. J. Gleeson,
Ltd., in the sum of £71,489 14s. 7d. The total cost of the acquisition of the site was
£11, 179 19s. 6d. Provision has been made for a transformer sub-station to be constructed
for the purpose of affording supplies of electricity to the estate and the immediate neighbourhood.
The Hats are in course of construction and will afford accommodation for persons
displaced from unfit property by the Council's Orders.
Queen's Crescent Site.
This site of approximately two acres was acquired from the Journeyman Tailors'
Benevolent Institution. A faculty authorising the demolition of the chapel was granted by
the London Consistory Court on condition that the chapel site should never be built upon and
that it should be delineated and a suitably inscribed tablet placed upon it.
The scheme submitted by the Council's Architect, and approved by the London County
Council, provides for the erection of 8 one-room, 1 two-room, 99 four-room and 31 five-room
tenements, a total of 139 flats comprising 561 rooms. A contract to carry out the work has
been entered into with the Parker Construction Co., Ltd., in the sum of £100,191. The
cost of the acquisition of the site was £18,000, excluding legal charges. Provision has been
made for the erection of a transformer sub-station for the purpose of affording supplies of
electricity to the estate and the immediate neighbourhood.
The site was vacated in October, 1937. The building is in course of construction and
will afford accommodation for the relief of overcrowding in the Borough. The Minister of
Health has approved the dwellings for this purpose and the appropriate Exchequer contribution
will be made.
Camden Park Road Site.
The scheme submitted by the Council's Architect, and approved by the London County
Council, provides for the erection of 3 two-room, 10 three-room, 67 four-room and 15 fiveroom
flats, a total of 95 tenements comprising 379 rooms. A contract to carry out the work
has been entered into with Messrs. A. P. C. Wray, Ltd., in the sum of £66,221 15s. 11d.
The cost of the acquisition of the site was £10,250, excluding legal charges. Provision has
been made for the erection of an electricity transformer sub-station to serve the estate and the
immediate neighbourhood.
The flats are in course of construction and the accommodation will be utilised either for
rehousing persons displaced from insanitary property by the Council's Orders, or for relieving
overcrowding in the Borough.
Ferdinand Place Estate.
Powlett House, a block of 18 flats, was occupied in July, 1937, and completes this
estate of 111 dwellings.
The amenities of the estate have been improved by the development as a garden space
of the piece of land lying between Harmood House and the London Passenger Transport
Board garage in Harmood Street. Flowering shrubs and trees have been planted with paved
surrounds,
Cobden House, Arlington Road.
The estate erected on the site of Nos. 1-8 (consecutive inclusive), Carlow Street, 1-7
(consecutive inclusive), Nelson Street and 12-26 (even inclusive), Arlington Road, which was