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Housing of the Working Classes.
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Administrative buildings are about to be erected, and five shops have been built along the frontage
to Lordship-lane, between Waltheot-avenue and Kevelioc-road.
During the year the adminstrative buildings at the Totterdown Fields estate, Tooting, were
altered and enlarged, extra coal bunks were provided at 72 cottages and inside entrance lobbies were
added to 225 of the older three-roomed cottages. The cost of the work was estimated at £989.
Totterdown
Fields estate.
On the Norbury estate, Croydon (28½ acres) roads and sewers have been constructed and cottages
have been erected on about 16¾ acres, and the work of finishing, the roads has been carried out by the
Croydon Corporation. Up to 31st December, 1913, accommodation for 3,472 persons had been provided
in 472 cottages. Four shops have also been provided. A scheme has been approved by the
Council for the development of the remainder of the estate, comprising 11¾ acres, at an estimated cost
of £74,000 for the building work and £10,850 for roads, sewers and general development. The scheme
provides for the erection of 133 cottages of three rooms and scullery, 35 cottages of three rooms and
scullery with small additional bedroom to accommodate one person, and 122 cottages of four rooms
and scullery, making a total of 290 cottages. All the cottages, with the exception of 42 of the smallest,
will be fitted with bath-rooms. The rents will range from 7s. 6d. to 10s. 6d. a week inclusive. Two
shops with dwelling accommodation of five rooms each will also be provided and two-thirds of an acre
will be reserved to form part of an open space of two acres which it is proposed to provide jointly with
the owners of an adjoining estate. A tender for the construction of the roads and sewers was accepted
in June, 1913, and the work was well advanced by the end of the year.
The Old Oak estate, Hammersmith (46½ acres), is now in course of development. On the
western section of the estate, comprising about 14½ acres, 304 cottages and cottage flats, with accommodation
for 2,124 persons, and 5 shops have been erected, and 14 additional cottages are being constructed
at an estimated cost for buildings and plans of £4,380. Administrative buildings with an
estate office, workshop and store and dwelling accommodation for the superintendent have been provided.
A scheme has been provisionally approved for the development of the eastern section of the
estate (32 acres) by the erection of 721 cottages and two shops at an estimated inclusive cost for buildings,
roads, sewers and incidental works of £218,256.
Norbury
estate.
Old Oak
estate.

The rents mentioned, which are inclusive of rates, have not been definitely fixed, but are subject
to slight adjustment at a later stage.
It will be seen that the majority of the cottages, as at the Norbury estate, will comprise three
or four rooms for which rents varying from 7s. 6d. to 10s. 6d. a week will be charged. The Council feels
that those who require larger houses than those now proposed and who can afford to pay higher rents
are provided for by private enterprise. Most of the five-roomed cottages will be erected on the frontage
facing Wormwood-scrubs.
A tender amounting to £13,100 for the construction of roads and sewers on the eastern section
was accepted on 29th July, 1913, and the work is proceeding. When it is sufficiently advanced building
operations will be commenced, the Council having already voted the expenditure for about half the
total number of cottages to be erected.
A church is to be erected on the estate by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, from whom the
estate was purchased. The Great Western Railway Company has been asked to provide a station
or a halt on the branch line which is being constructed from Ealing to Shepherd's Bush and which
crosses the estate. Such provision would be a great convenience to the tenants on the estate.
A temporary school has been erected and a site is about to be allocated for the provision of
permanent school accommodation.
An acre and a quarter of land abutting on the housing estate and Wormwood-scrubs was acquired
for the purpose of constructing an outlet from the eastern section of the estate in the north-west corner.
The portion of this land, about one acre in extent, not required for the proposed new road has been
added to the open space.
Dwellings capable of accommodating 1,982 persons were completed during the year 1913 at
an approximate cost for buildings and plans of £63,708. The erection of new cottages designed to
accommodate 170 persons and other works incidental to the development of the various estates
were undertaken during the year, and the total cost thereof is estimated at £36,200.
The standing orders of the Council require that all dwellings shall be so designed that the cost
of erection may not exceed a sum which will enable all outgoings, interest, and sinking fund charges,
Dwellings
provided by
the Council.