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London County Council 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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lix.
Annual Report of the London County Council, 1913.
K.-STATEMENT AS TO THE COMMERCIAL AND HOUSING VALUES OF SITES UTILISED FOR THE ERECTION OF WORKING CLASS DWELLINGS.
| 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, pages liii. and lv., co!. 6.] | Difference charged to clearance scheme or improvement (cost of writing down value of cleared site). |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Housing op the working Classes Act, 1890. | £ | £ | £ | Housing op 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 | ||||
| Whltechapel and Limehouse | 73,000 | 24,900 | 48,100 | Cable-street | 8,500 | 3,660 | 4,840 |
| Goalston-street and Flower and Dean-street, Whitechapel | 80,000 | 32,106 | 47,894 | Shelton-street | 24,465 | 5,100 | 10,365 |
| Clare Market— | |||||||
| Elizabeth-place, King-street and Mint-street, St. George- the-Martvr. Southwark | 27,000 | 14,700 | Millbank | *16,202 | 11,907 | 4,295 | |
| Bedfordbury, St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 15,000 | 7,886 | 7,114 | Duke's-court | *61,181 | 4,200 | 53,981 |
| York-street | |||||||
| 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 |
| Whitecross-street, St. Luke | 105,000 | 36,882 | 68,118 | Pre3ton'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 | 10,500 | 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 |
| Windmill-row, Lambeth | 6,000 | 3,050 | 2,950 | ||||
| † Parker-street | 14,035 | 3,750 | 10,285 | Tabard-street, Newington | 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. | |||||||
| 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 | ||||
| Street Improvements | 465,804 | 163,361 | 802,443 | ||||
| Metropolitan Street Improvements Act, 1872— | §Dwellings under improvement acts. | ||||||
| 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 |
| Willow-walk, Great Eastern- street | 26,305 | 14,272 | 12,033 | Duke's-court | 18,268 | ||
| York-street | |||||||
| Metropolitan Board or Works (vanous lowers) Act, 1876— | Herbrand-street | 41,836 | 1,000 | 34,836 | |||
| Appold-street (Sun-street), bhoreditch | 2,100 | 1,250 | 850 | Bruce House | 41,836 | ||
| 8,830 | 54,170 | ||||||
| Metropolitan Street Improvements Act, 1877— | Bourne | 63,000 | |||||
| Camberwell and Peckham | 1,500 | 600 | 900 | Millbank | *201,460 | 44,000 | 157,469 |
| Charing-cross-road and Shaftesbury-avenue | 77,000 | *33,715 | 43,285 | Swan-lane | *27,901 | 20,651 | 7,250 |
| Gray's Inn-road (including Elm-street, Acts of 1884 and 1887) | 22,730 | 14,335 | 8,395 | Valette | 6,850 | 5,000 | 1,850 |
| H ughes-fields | 8,600 | 3,000 | 5,600 | ||||
| Jamaica-road and Union-road | 10,700 | 5,300 | 5,400 | Bearcroft | *428 | 428 | - |
| Kentish Town-road | 2,500 | 2,300 | 260 | 2,229 | 700 | 1,520 | |
| Marshalsea-road (Southwark Bridge-road) | 4,200 | 1,900 | 2,300 | Council | 3,000 | 621 | 2 379 |
| Tooley-street | 20,000 | *10,000 | 10,000 | Westview, Armitage and Collerston | |||
| 4,900 | 1,148 | 3,752 | |||||
| Met.ropolitan 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 | |||||
| Upper-street, Islington | 2,500 | 950 | 1,550 | Brightlingsea | 3,225 | ||
| Hampstead. High-street | 2,500 | 1,500 | 1,000 | 4 100 | 1,000 | 3,100 | |
| Bekesbourne | 2,350 | ||||||
| Metropolitan Board of Works (various Powers) Act. 1885— | 1,120 | 1,230 | |||||
| Darcy | |||||||
| Rosebery-avenue | 30,000 | 24,775 | 5 225 | 2,350 | 1,250 | 1,100 | |
| Wandsworth-road | *4,596 | ||||||
| Total for Street Improvements | 255,435 | 131,007 | 124,428 | 1,560 | 3,036 | ||
| 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 undeer which these dwellings are erected, see page lvii. | ||||||