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Roehampton
estate.
The Council has agreed to surrender a strip of land at Downham for the
widening of Baring-road.
Roehampton estate, Wandsworth, was acquired in 1919, and an area of about
93 acres has been allocated for the erection of working-class dwellings. The development
of the first section and a part of the second section has been completed by the
erection of 792 houses, and the erection of 422 houses and administrative buildings
on the remainder of the estate has been entrusted to C. J. Wills and Sons, Limited,
on similar terms to those contained in their contract for the development of
Becontree.
White Hartlane
estate.
Of the 422 houses 335 had been completed at the end of the year.
Part of the White Hart-lane estate, Tottenham, was developed before the war,
and on the remaining land 839 houses and two shops were completed before
1926.
On 9th February, 1926, the Council decided to let a contract for the erection
of 9 shops with dwellings over on the Lordship-lane frontage of the estate, and on
15th June, 1926, the contract was extended to include the erection of 4 houses on a
vacant site in Tower Gardens-road. The weekly net rents (exclusive of rates and
water charges) of the flats over the 9 shops have been fixed as follows:—Five-roomed
flats, 14s. 3d. to 14s. 6d.; four-roomed flats, 13s.
On 27th July, 1926, the Council decided to accept the offer of John Laing and
Son, Limited, for the erection of 300 houses on their "Easiform" system of concrete
construction to complete the development of the estate. The prices range from
£459 for a four-roomed non-parlour intermediate house to £561 for a five-roomed
end house. The total estimated cost of the 300 houses is £175,000.
A plot of land on the estate has been let on lease for 99 years to the
British Master Method Syndicate, Limited, for the erection of 4 houses on their
special system of concrete construction.
Watling
estate.
The Watling estate, which is situated astride Edgware-road in the Hendon
urban district, is being acquired partly through the exercise of compulsory powers
and partly by agreement.
On 23rd June, 1925, the Council made a compulsory order for the acquisition
of about 118 acres of additional land for inclusion in the estate. The Order was
duly submitted to the Minister of Health, and after a local inquiry the Minister,
on 19th January, 1926, confirmed the Order, with the omission of about 16¾ acres
of land belonging to the London Electric Railway Company. The Council, on
27th July, 1926, agreed to purchase two additional plots of adjoining land, comprising
2¼ acres for inclusion in the estate.
The main portion of the estate, about 400 acres in extent, lies to the east of the
main road at Burnt Oak on the Edgware extension of the London Electric Railway,
and provision has been made for the erection of about 3,970 houses.
Particulars of the contract entered into with C. J. Wills and Sons, Limited, for
the development of the estate are set out in the Annual Report for 1925 (Vol. III.,
p. 193). By the end of the year about 900 houses and flats were in course of erection,
and the weekly net rents (exclusive of rates and water charges) for the accommodation
were fixed as follows Five-roomed house, 14s. 9d. ; four-roomed house
(parlour type), 14s. 6d.; four-roomed house (non-parlour type), 12s. 6d. ; threeroomed
house, 12s. ; four-roomed flat, 12s. and 12s. 6d. ; three-roomed flat,
10s. 6d. and 11s.; two-roomed flat, 10s. and 10s. 3d.
During 1926 the Council sold a site for £1,000 to the Church of England
authorities for the erection of a church. Other sites were let on building lease
for 99 years for the erection of shops or business premises, and a site was also let on
lease for 99 years to the Hendon Electric Supply Company, Limited, for the erection
of a transformer station, etc., in connection with the supply of electricity to the
estate.