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the subject of a compulsory purchase order made by the Council, has been named "Cobden
House."
It will comprise 4 two-room, 2 three-room, 43 four-room and 6 five-room tenements, a
total of 55 dwellings and will be ready for occupation shortly. It will be utilised to rehouse
families displaced by the Council's Orders from unfit property. The following scale of weekly
rentals has been adopted:
Nett.
Inclusive.
s. d.
s. d.
2-roorn flats 8 0 11 3
3 „ „ 9 3 13 2
4 „ „ 10 6 15 1
5 „ „ 11 0 16 4
Denyer House.
Proposals submitted by the Borough Engineer and Surveyor in consultation with the
Architect for the widening of the existing; footway on the south side to provide an improved
vehicular road to the estate direct from Highgate Road are being carried into effect. The
piece of land fronting the estate has been handed over to the Works Department, who will lay
it out as an open space.
Somers Town Extension.
The small extension of the Somers Town Estate on the site of Nos. 32, 33 and 33a,
Johnson Street was completed in September, 1937. The rentals of the three and four-room
flats were fixed on the same basis as those obtaining on the Somers Town estate generally, and
the weekly rental of the five-room flats was fixed at 13s. net (18s. 3d. inclusive).
The Minister of Health has approved the four flats for the purpose of providing
accommodation for the abatement of overcrowding. The Exchequer contribution will be £19
per flat per annum for 40 years, and the rate contribution £9 10s. per flat per annum for 40
years, of which the London County Council have agreed to contribute one-half.
The fried fish shop included in the extension scheme has been let on a seven years'
lease to the tenant of the fish shop which formerly stood on the site.
BrookField Estate.
Part of the land at the rear of the block of flats at 74, St. Alban's Road has been
allocated, with the consent of the Minister of Health, to the Electricity Undertaking as a site
for an electricity transformer sub-station.
287 and 289, Camden High Street.
The Council have acquired these premises, together with the garage at the rear, in
connection with the proposal to erect a new refuse destructor. Since the property, in which
there are various weekly and monthly tenancies, will not be required for demolition in the
immediate future, it is being managed by the Estates Committee until such time as it is
required for redevelopment.
London County Council Housing Estates.
The London County Council give preferential consideration to families who are living
in overcrowded conditions and in cases where a member of the family is suffering from
tuberculosis. The number of St. Pancras cases rehoused by the County Council under this