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London County Council 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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xxxviii.
xxxix.
Annual Report of the London County Council, 1910.
Housing of the Working Classes—Accounts.
| Clearance scheme or street improvement. | Commercial value (estimated). | Housing value. (Cash received from Dwellings Companies.) | Difference charged to clearance scheme or improvement, (cost of writing down value of cleared site.) | Dwellings. | Commercial value. (Estimated.) | Housing value. (Estimated.) Amounts charged to Dwellings Accounts. | Difference charged to clearance scheme or improvement (cost of writing down value of cleared site). |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890. | Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890. | ||||||
| Part I.—Clearance Schemes. | £ | £ | £ | Part I. | £ | £ | £ |
| Boundary-street | 131,670 | 62,010 | 69,660 | ||||
| Whitechapel and Limehouse | 73,000 | 24,900 | 48,100 | Cable-street | 8,500 | 3,660 | 4,840 |
| Goulston-street and Flower and Dean-street, Whitechapel | 80,000 | 32,106 | 47,894 | Shelton-street | 24,465 | 5,100 | 19,365 |
| Elizabeth-place, King-street and Mint-street, St. George-the- Martyr, Southwark | 27 000 | 12,300 | 14,700 | Millbank | (a) 16,202 | 11,907 | 4,295 |
| Bedfordbury, St. Martin-in-the-Fields | » »W V 15,000 | 7,886 | 7,114 | Churchway | 25,000 | 8,550 | 16,450 |
| Great Wild-street, St. Giles-in-the-Fields | 35,000 | 15,840 | 19,160 | Hardy | 4,000 | 1,000 | 3,000 |
| Pear Tree-court, Clerkenwell | 12,000 | 5,925 | 6,075 | Duke s-court | (a) 61,181 | ( 4.200 | 53,981 |
| York-street (late Russell-court) | 3,000 | ||||||
| Whitecross-street, St. Luke | 105,000 | 36,882 | 68,118 | Preston's-road | 1,434 | 1,434 | Nil. |
| High-street, Islington | 11,000 | 5,650 | 5,350 | St. Luke s—Wenlake | 25,900 | 5,000 | 20,900 |
| Old Pye-street, Westminister | 40,000 | 20,410 | 19,590 | Do. Chadworth | 20,800 | 8,000 | 12,800 |
| Bowman's-buildings, St. Marylebone | 16,500 | 10,000 | 6,500 | ||||
| Essex-road, Islington | 30,000 | 13,306 | 16,694 | Clerkenwell and Holborn—Mallory | 10,000 | 1,620 | 8,380 |
| Do. Nigel, etc. | 53,000 | 14,550 | 38,450 | ||||
| Wells-street, Poplar | 12,000 | 5,000 | 7,000 | Webber-row | 28,500 | 9,750 | 18,750 |
| Windmill-row, Lambeth | 6,000 | 3,050 | 2,950 | (b) Parker-street | 14,035 | 3,750 | 10,285 |
| Tabard-street, Newington | 7,000 | 4,200 | 2,800 | ||||
| Hughes-fields, Deptford | 2,600 | 1,460 | 1,140 | Brook street | 3,600 | 1,800 | 1,800 |
| Groldsmith's-row | (a) 4,794 | 1,000 | 3,794 | ||||
| Hughes-fields | \ / i 7,760 | 3,720 | 4,040 | ||||
| Total for Clearance schemes | 472,100 | 198,915 | 273,185 | Part II. | v, • i-v/ | ||
| Street Improvements. | Cranley | 1,500 | 750\ | 750 | |||
| Metropolitan Street Improvements Act, 1872- | Borough | 8,146 | 5,000 | 3,146 | |||
| Cobham | 6,466 | 2,100 | 4,366 | ||||
| Bethnal Green-road | 11,500 | 7 220 | 4,280 | Ann-street | 2,850 | 2,260 | 590 |
| Old-street to Oxford-street(Clerkenwell-road and Theobald's-road) | 38,400 | 10,860 | 27,540 | Sylva | 2,166 | 1,000 | 1,166 |
| (c) Carrington House | 3,834 | 2.200 | 1,634 | ||||
| Willow-walk (Great Eastern-street) | 26.305 | 14,272 | 12,033 | • 1 V W M | |||
| Metropolitan Board of Works (Various Powers) Act. 1876- | 465,803 | 163,361 | 302 442 | ||||
| Appold-street (Sun-street) Shoreditch | 2,100 | 1,250 | 850 | m (d) Dwellings under Improvement Acts. | |||
| Metropolitan Street improvements Act, 1877— | |||||||
| Camberwell and Peckham | 1,500 | 600 | 900 | ||||
| Charing Cross-road and Shaftesbury-avenue | 77,000 | (a) 33,715 | 43,285 | Battersea-bridge | 4,000 | 1,350 | 2,650 |
| Gray's Inn-road (including Elm-street, Acts of 1884 and 1887) | 22,730 | 14,335 | 8,395 | Cotton-street | 2,500 | 1,400 | 1,100 |
| Durham | 5,000 | 2,380 | 2,620 | ||||
| Jamaica-road and Union-road | 10,700 | 5,300 | 5,400 | Duke's-court | (a) 20,668 | 1,400 | 18,268 |
| Kentish Town-road | 2,500 | 2,300 | 200 | York-street (late Russell-court) | 1,000 | ||
| Marshalsea-road (Southwark Bridge-road) | 4,200 | 1,900 | 2,300 | Herbrand-street | 41,836 | 7,000 | 34,836 |
| Tooley-street | 20,000 | (a) 10,000 | 10,000 | ||||
| Bruce House | 63,000 | 8,830 | 54,170 | ||||
| Metropolitan Street, Improvments Act, 1883- | Bourne | (a) 201,469 | 44 000 | 157,469 | |||
| Green-street. Bethnal Green | 3,500 | 2,030 | 1,470 | Millbank | (a) 27,901 | 20,651 | 7,250 |
| Upper-street, Islington | 2,500 | 950 | 1,550 | Swan-lane | 6,850 | 5,000 | 1,850 |
| Hampstead High-street | 2,500 | 1,500 | 1,000 | Valette | 8,600 | 3,000 | 5,600 |
| Metropolitan Board of Works (Various Powers) Act. 1885- | Hughes-fields | (a) 428 | 428 | Nil. | |||
| Rosebery-avenue | 30,000 | 24,775 | 5,225 | Bearcroft | 2,229 | 700 | 1,520 |
| Council | 3,000 | 621 | 2,379 | ||||
| Westview, Aimitage and Collerston | 4,900 | 1,148 | 3,752 | ||||
| Total for Street Improvements | 255,435 | 131,007 | 124,428 | Idenden | 4,400 | 1,500 | 2,990 |
| Barnaby | 6,100 | 2,875 | 3,225 | ||||
| Brightlingsea | 4,100 | 1,000 | 3,100 | ||||
| Bekesbourne | 2,350 | 1,120 | 1,230 | ||||
| Darcy | 2,350 | 1,250 | 1,100 | ||||
| Total | 727,535 | • 329,922 | 397,613 | Wandsworth-road | (a) 4,596 | 1,560 | 3,036 |
| 416,277 | 108,213 | 308,064 | |||||
| (a) Wholly or partly based on the capitalisation of annual ground rents. | |||||||
| 882,080 | 271,574 | 610,506 | |||||
Note.—The figures in the column headed "Commercial value," except in the few instances where actual cost is given, represent the estimate of
site as cleared land free from all restrictions. The figures in the column headed."Housing value" represent in statement (i.) the sums
estimated housing value as determined by the Council on the advice of the Valuer, and charged to the capital accounts of the dwellings.
(a) Actual cost of site purchased for re-housing purposes.
(b) Erected as a lodging house under Part III., but provides accommodation in connection with Shelton-street Scheme
(c) Erected as a lodging house under Part III., but provides accommodation in connection with Mill-lane, Deptford, Scheme.
(d) For statutes under which these dwellings are erected see page lvii.
the Council's Valuer of the amount which would have been obtained in the open market at the time of the disposal of the re-housine site for the
actually received from Dwellings Companies and others for the sites restricted to the erection of working class dwellings and in statement (ii.) the