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London County Council 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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lvi : Annual Report of the London County Council, 1912.
APPENDIX XIX.
STATEMENT AS TO THE COMMERCIAL AND HOUSING VALUES OF SITES UTILISED FOR THE ERECTION OF
WORKING CLASS DWELLINGS.
St.tenment showing difference between the commercial vaiue and the housing value of sites (a) sold by the Metropolitan Board of Works :
thereon, or (
| (a) Sites sold by the Metropolitan Board of Works to Dwelling Companies and others, with the obligation to erect dwellings for the working classes thereon. | (b) Sites acquired or appropriated by the Councillor the erection of working class dwellings. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaiance 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 chaiged to Dwellings Accounts, page 30, col. 6.J | 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. | £ | £ | £ |
| Part I —Clearance Schemes. | Boundary-street | 131,670 | 62,010 | 69,660 | |||
| Goldsmith's-row (Supplemental to Boundary Street) | *4,795 | 1,000 | 3,795 | ||||
| Whitechapel and Limehouse .. .. .... | 73,000 | 24,900 | 48,100 | Cable-street | 8,500 | 3,660 | 4,840 |
| Shelton-street | 24,465 | 5,100 | 19,365 | ||||
| Goulston-street and Flower and Dean-street, Whitechapel .. | 80,000 | 32,106 | 47,894 | Clare Marlet— | |||
| Elizabeth-place, King-street and Mint-street, St. George* the-Martyr, Southwark | 27,000 | 12,300 | 14,700 | Millbank | *16,202 | 11,907 | 4,295 |
| Duke's-court | *61,181 | 4,200 | 53.981 | ||||
| Bedfordbury, St. Martin-in-the-Fiel Is ...... | 15,000 | 7,886 | 7,114 | York-street | 3,000 | ||
| Great Wild-street, St. Giles-in-the-Fields | 35,000 | 15,840 | 19,160 | Churchway | 25,000 | 8,550 | 16,450 |
| Pear Tree-court, Clerkenwell .. | 12,000 | 5,925 | 6,075 | Hardy | 4,000 | 1,000 | 3,000 |
| Whitecro63-street, St. Luke.......... | 105,000 | 36,882 | 68,118 | Preston's-road | 1,434 | 1,434 | - |
| High-street, Islington . | 11,000 | 5,650 | 5,350 | St. Luke's—Wenlake | 25,900 | 5,000 | 20,900 |
| Old Pye-street, Westminster.......... | 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 | Clerkenwell and Holborn — Mallory | 10,000 | 1,620 | 8,380 |
| Essex-road, Islington | 30,000 | 13,306 | 16,694 | 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 |
| 6,000 | 3,050 | 2,950 | †Parker-street | 14,035 | 3,750 | 10,285 | |
| 7,000 | 4,200 | 2,800 | Brook-street | 3,600 | 1,800 | 1,800 | |
| Hughes-fields, Deptford | 2,600 | 1,460 | 1,140 | Hughes-fields | 7,760 | 3,720 | 4,040 |
| Total for Clearance schemes...... | 472,100 | 198,915 | 273,185 | Part. II. | |||
| Street Improvements. | Cranley | 1,500 | 750 | 750 | |||
| Borough | 8,146 | 5,000 | 3,146 | ||||
| Cobham | 6,466 | 2,100 | 4,366 | ||||
| Ann-street | 2,850 | 2,260 | 590 | ||||
| Sylva | 2,166 | 1,000 | 1,166 | ||||
| ‡Carrington House | 3,834 | 2,200 | 1,634 | ||||
| 465,804 | 163,361 | 302,443 | |||||
| §Dwellings under Improvement Acts. | |||||||
| Metropolitan Street Improvements Act, 1872— | Battersea-bridge | 4,000 | 1,350 | 2,650 | |||
| Bethnal Green-road | 11,500 | *7,220 | 4,280 | Cotton-street | 2,500 | 1,400 | 1,100 |
| Old-street to Oxford-street (Clerkenwell-road and Theobald's-road) | 38,400 | 10,860 | 27,540 | Durham | 5,000 | 2,380 | 2,620 |
| Duke's-court | *20,668 | 1,400 | 18,268 | ||||
| Willow-walk, Great Eastern-street | 26,305 | 14,272 | 12,033 | York-street | 1,000 | ||
| Metropolitan Board of Works (Various Powers) Act, 1876— | Herbrand-street | 41,836 | 7,000 | 34,836 | |||
| Appold-street (Sun-street), Shoreditch | 2,100 | 1,250 | 850 | Bruce House | 63,000 | 8,830 | 54,170 |
| Metropolitan Street Improvements Act, 1877— | Bourne | *201,469 | 44,000 | 157,469 | |||
| Camberwell and Peckham | 1,500 | 600 | 900 | Millbank | *27,901 | 20,651 | 7,250 |
| Charing-cross-road and Shaftesbury-avenue | 77,000 | *33,715 | 43,285 | Swan-lane | 6,850 | 5,000 | 1,850 |
| Gray's Inn-road (including Elm-street, Acts of 1884 and 1887) | 22,730 | 14,335 | 8,395 | Valette | 8,600 | 3,000 | 5,600 |
| Hughes-field | *428 | 428 | — | ||||
| Jamaica-road and Union-road | 10,700 | 5,300 | 5,400 | Bearcroft | 2,229 | 700 | 1,529 |
| Kentish Town-road | 2,500 | 2,300 | 260 | Council | 3,000 | 621 | 2,379 |
| Marshalsea-road (Southwark Bridge-road) | 4,200 | 1,900 | 2,300 | ||||
| Tooley-street | 20,000 | *10,000 | 10,000 | Westview, Armitage and Collerston | 4,900 | 1,148 | 3,752 |
| Metropolitan Street Improvements Act, 1883— | Idenden | 4,400 | 1,500 | 2,900 | |||
| Green-street, Bethnal Green | 3,500 | 2,030 | 1,470 | Barnaby | 6,100 | 2,875 | 3,225 |
| Upper-street, Islington | 2,500 | 950 | 1,550 | Brightlingsea | 4,100 | 1,000 | 3,100 |
| Hampstead, High-street | 2,500 | 1,500 | 1,000 | Bekesbourne | 2,350 | 1,120 | 1,230 |
| Metropolitan Board of Works (Various Powers) Act, 1885— | Darcy | 2,350 | 1,250 | 1,100 | |||
| Rosebery-avenue | 30,000 | 24,775 | 5,225 | Wandsworth-road | *4,596 | 1,560 | 3,036 |
| Total for Street Improvements | 156,436 | 131,007 | 124,428 | 416,277 | 108,213 | 308,064 | |
| Total | 727,535 | 329,922 | 397,613 | 882,081 | 271,574 | 610,507 | |
* Wholly or partly based on the capitalisation of annual ground rents.
*Actual cost of site purchased for re-housing purposes.
+Erected as a lodging house under Part III., but provides accommodation in connection with Shelton-street Scheme.
‡Erected as a lodging house under Part III., but provides accommodation in connection with Mill-lane,Deptford, Scheme.
§For Statutes under which these dwellings are erected, see opposite