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Fairhead & Sons, Limited, amounting to £18,578, for the erection of Tabard House
to contain 42 tenements with accommodation for 256 persons. At the end of the
year the dwellings were almost completed. During the year three shops with flats
over and four workshops were erected on land adjoining Chaucer House, the work
being carried out by Messrs. W. J. Dixon & Son under contract for £3,522. The
Southwark Metropolitan Borough Council has undertaken, at an estimated cost of
£4,084, to widen a section of Staple-street and to construct a further length of the
new road named Manciple-street, the work, however, to be paid for on the basis
of actual cost. The Bermondsey Metropolitan Borough Council has also arranged
to carry out on similar terms the paving work in connection with street widenings
at the junction of Crosby-row with Snowsfields on the Crosby-row area, the
borough council's estimate of the cost of the work being £646.
The weekly net rents for accommodation in Tabard House have been fixed
as follows : Two rooms, 10s. and 10s. 6d. ; three rooms, 13s. to 14s.; four rooms,
15s. to 15s. 6d.; five rooms, 17s. 6d., the variations being due to position or special
amenities.
The centre of the estate will be laid out as a public garden or playground,
about 5 acres in extent, but much of the site is still covered with houses of which
it is difficult to obtain possession on account of the shortage of accommodation.
During the year a further portion was made available as a temporary playground
for children and arrangements are being made for the permanent lay-out of the site
in sections as the land becomes vacant.
Brady-etreet
sch em e.
The Brady-street scheme, which relates to an area of about 7 acres in the
metropolitan borough of Bethnal Green, is being carried into effect under Part 11.
of the Housing Act, 1890. About 1,875 persons of the working classes will be
displaced and accommodation has to be provided for 1,600 persons on the cleared
site and for 265 persons elsewhere. In part fulfilment of the rehousing obligation
under the scheme, a block of dwellings known as Whiston House, containing 12
tenements to accommodate 90 persons has been erected by the Council at Goldsmith's-row,
Shoreditch, and 35 cottages with accommodation for 175 persons have
been provided on a site at Walthamstow by the freeholders of a large part of the
property required for the clearance scheme.
The first block of dwellings (Bullen House) to be erected on the improvement
area, named Collingwood estate, was completed in 1923. Tenders for the second
block (Pellew House), which will contain accommodation for 294 persons in 48 tenements,
were invited in the early part of 1924, and on 6th February the Council
accepted the tender of Messrs. Rowley Bros., amounting to £20,474, for the building
work, which was approaching completion by the end of the year. The third block
(Fremantle House) will be a replica of Pellew House, and the Council, on 11th
February, 1924, approved an estimate of £700 for preliminary expenses to enable
contract particulars to be prepared. The Bethnal Green Metropolitan Borough
Council has undertaken to instal, free of cost to the Council, electricity for light.ng
purposes at Pellew House, and the Gas Light and Coke Company has arranged
to instal gas for cooking purposes and to supply cooking stoves for the use of the
tenants, in consideration of a payment by the Council of £2 10s. a tenement.
Ware-street
scheme.
The scheme for dealing with the Ware-street area, Hoxton (9¼ acres), under
Part I. of the Housing Act, 1890, involves the displacement of about 2,648 persons
of the working classes, and the scheme as confirmed by the Minister of Health
requires rehousing accommodation to be provided for that number, of which not
fewer than 2,160 are to be accommodated within the area. The name " Whitmore
estate " has been selected for the area when reconstructed. Rehousing accommodation
for 378 persons has been provided in 72 three-storey cottage flats on the White
Hart-lane estate, the buildings having been completed in July, 1924. On
5th November, 1924, the Council accepted the tender of Messrs. R. Woollaston &
Co.., amounting to £19,349 11s. 5d., for the erection of the first block of dwellings