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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, Grav'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 (IS flats), Johnson House (30 flats), Gladwin House (IS Hats),
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, Highgate Road (44 flats).
(j) Ferdinand Place Estate (111 Hats), consisting of Harmood House (62 flats),
Ferdinand House (31 flats), and Powlett House (18 flats).
(k) Cobden House, Arlington Road (55 flats).
(l) Kenbrook House, Leighton Road (98 flats).
(m) 13 and 15, Bayham Place.
(n) 15, Willes Road (flat over filtration plant of Prince of Wales Road Baths).
(o) 24, Grafton Road.
(p) 41 and 47, Stanhope Street.
(q) 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159 and 161, Great College Street.
(r) 9, Georgiana Street.
(s) 67, 69 and 71, Pratt Street.
(t) 3, James Street.
(u) 207, Arlington Road.
(v) Oak House and Wellington House, East Finchley.
(w) 287 and 289, Camden High Street.
The waiting list for accommodation on the Council's Estates is restricted to persons
living in the Borough in overcrowded conditions or in unfit property upon which Closing or
Demolition Orders have been made by the Borough Council. During the past year there
have been 66 changes of tenancies in the Council's properties.
Kenbrook House, Leighton Road.
This estate of 98 flats was completed during the year and has been occupied by families
who were displaced from clearance areas, unfit property upon which Closing or Demolition
Orders had been made by the Borough Council or who were overcrowded under the provisions
of the Housing Act, 1936.