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(b) Brantome-place area : all the interests have been acquired and the demolition was proceeding
(c) Prospect.terrace area : all the interests have been acquired, except those in the Prospect.terrace roadway
which have been referred to arbitration. The number of persons to be displaced from these two
areas is 1,165 and the number to be re.housed in 842. In February the County Council approved the
plan of buildings to be erected on the Brantome-place site.
Proceedings of the County Council under Part. 111. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act.
Totterdown-fields estate.—In July the Council accepted a tender for the erection of 414 cottages
on Section B of this estate and later in the month accepted an estimate for the erection of six cottages on
Section C. In October the Housing of the Working Classes Committee reported that 20 first.class
cottages in Section B were practically completed, providing accommodation for 200 persons, making in
all provision for 1,992 persons on this estate.
Wessex-buildings, Wedmore-street, Holloway.—In July the Council authorised the erection of the
third block of Wessex.buildings for 340 persons, and in October the Housing of the Working Classes
Committee reported the front block of Wessex.buildings nearly completed, providing accommodation
for 360 persons in 60 tenements of two rooms and 20 tenements of three rooms.' A
Raleigh-buildings, Hughes-fields, Deptford.—In November the Housing of the Working Classes
Committee reported the completion of Raleigh-buildings providing accommodation for 280 persons in
18 tenements of two rooms, 24 tenements of three rooms and 8 tenements of four rooms.
Caledonian-estate.—In November the Council approved working drawings of five.storey dwellings
on this estate providing accommodation for 1,388 persons in six tenements of one room, 100 tenements
of two rooms, 144 tenements of three rooms, four tenements of 4 rooms and 4 tenements of five
rooms, and in December, accepted a tender of £36,465 for the erection of four of the five blocks.
Re-housing by the Council in connection with street improvements.
In connection with street improvements the following steps were taken for re.housing persons
of the labouring class displaced.
In the spring, the following buildings erected on the Herbrand.street site area were completed—
Coram for 200 persons, Dickens for 220 and Thackeray for 260 persons displaced by the Holborn to
Strand improvement.
In May the Council accepted a tender of £10,398 13s. 4d. for the erection of Lennox-buildings
and Clare.cottages in Wandsworth.road for re.housing persons displaced by the widening of Nine Elms.
lane. Lennox.buildings will consist of five.storey block dwellings having four tenements of one room,
sixteen tenements of two rooms, and twenty tenements of three rooms. The cottages are to
accommodate 42 persons.
In the same month the Housing of the Working Classes Committee reported the completion of a
section of Durham.buildings in York.road, Battersea, providing in 28 tenements of two rooms and
28 tenements of three rooms accommodation for 286 persons displaced by the widening of Garratt-lane
and Merton.road,Wandsworth.
In June the Housing of the Working Classes Committee reported the completion of Darcy.
buildings, London Fields, providing in 25 tenements of two rooms and 15 tenements of three rooms
accommodation for 190 persons being a proportion of those displaced by the Mare.street improvement.
The remainder of the persons displaced will be accommodated in Vallette.buildings, in course of erection
in Jerusalem.square, Hackney.
In October the following steps were taken :—
The Council accepted an estimate of £46,100 for the erection of a lodging.house of the
Rowton House type for the accommodation of 699 men in connection with displacements by the Holborn
to Strand improvements.
The Housing of the Working Classes Committee reported the completion of Drake.
buildings on the Hughes-fields estate, providing in ten tenements of two rooms and 30 tenements
of three rooms accommodation for 220 persons displaced by the erection of an electricity generating
station at Greenwich.
The Committee reported the completion of Brightlingsea.buildings at Ropemaker's.
fields, Wapping, providing in five tenements of one room, 20 tenements of two
rooms, 35 tenements of three rooms and five tenements of four rooms accommodation for 340 persons,
being part of those for whom accommodation has to be provided on the north side of the Thames on
account of displacements resulting from the construction of the Rotherhithe Tunnel.
The Committee reported the completion of Barnaby.buildings (part) in Leroy.
street, Bermondsey, providing accommodation in ten tenements of two rooms and ten tenements of three
rooms for 100 persons displaced by the Long.lane and Tabard.street improvement.
The annual reports for the following districts give account of proceedings of the Borough Councils
under Part III. of the Act.
Kensington.—The Borough Council has purchased " nearly all the houses in Kenley.street in the
Notting-dale special area and some*others in the locality, upon terms which enabled them to provide
lodging houses for a considerable body of the working classes at reasonable and reduced rents, and with
but a small annual charge upon the rates."
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