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further blocks with accommodation for 236 persons will be erected on an adjacent
site in Law-street included in the scheme. The remainder of the rehousing
accommodation will be provided on East Hill estate, Wandsworth.
On 8th February, 1927, the Council accepted the tender of Sir. R. J. Rowley,
amounting to £1,562, for the erection on a strip of land in Manciple-street of four
lock-up shops and four workshops of an inexpensive character, for letting to small
traders and shopkeepers occupying premises on the Tabard-street area.
During the year arrangements were made for the Southwark Metropolitan
Borough Council to carry out, on a cost basis, the paving, etc., works in connection
with the widening of a portion of Tabard-street, in connection with the
scheme.
Ihe Brady-street scheme relates to an area ot about 7 acres in the metropolitan
borough of Bethnal Green. About 1,865 persons of the working classes will be
displaced, and accommodation has to be provided for 1,600 persons on the cleared
site (to be known as Collingwood Estate), and for 265 persons elsewhere. Accommodation
for 1,127 persons has already been provided under the scheme, and on
29th March, 1927, the Council approved a capital estimate of £23,430 for the erection
on the area of a further block of dwellings (Codrington House), comprising 44 tenements
of the normal type with accommodation for 264 persons. The tender of
Rowley Brothers, Limited, amounting to £21,241, for the work, has been accepted,
and the building is due to be completed in April, 1928.
Brady-street
scheme.
During the year the Uouncil accepted the oner ot the Joethnal Green Metropolitan
Borough Council to instal electric lighting in the tenements in Codrington House
and of the Gas Light and Coke Company to instal gas for cooking purposes only,
in each case free of cost to the Council.
Arrangements were also made during the year tor che ±5ethnal Ureen iVietropolitan
Borough Council to carry out at actual cost the paving works in connection with the
widening to 40 feet of Bath-street.
Ihe scheme lor dealing with the Ware-street area (to be known as Whitmoreestate),
Hoxton (8£ acres), involves the displacement of about 2,648 persons of the
working classes, and the Council is required to provide rehousing accommodation for
that number, of whom not fewer than 2,160 are to be accommodated within the area.
Up to the end of 1926 rehousing accommodation for 768 persons had been provided
on the area and elsewhere.
Ware-street
scheme.
During 1927 three further blocks of dwellings (Horner Houses), which are of
the simplified type, comprising 80 tenements with accommodation for 376 persons,
were completed. On 31st March, 1927, the Council approved a capital estimate of
£29,560 for the erection of three additional blocks of dwellings, comprising 66 tenements
(48 of the simplified type and 18 of the normal type), with accommodation for
328 persons. The building work, which was commenced in August, 1927. is being
carried out by Rowley Brothers, Limited, as an extension of their contract for the
erection of the three Horner Houses completed in 1927.
During the year the Council decided to enter into an agreement with the lessee of
a timber yard on the area, whereby the Council was able to acquire part of the site
of the yard required in connection with the redevelopment of the area without payment
of heaw trade compensation.
Another unhealthy area which is being cleared by the Council is the Hickman s
Folly area, Bermondsey (6 acres), to be known after reconstruction as Dickens
estate. About 1,660 persons of the working classes will be displaced, and accommodation
has to be provided for this number of persons, of whom not fewer than 1,000
are to be accommodated within the area.
Hickman's
folly
scheme.
During 1927 arrangements were made for the Bermondsey Metropolitan Borough
Council to pave, at the cost of the Council, certain strips of land in the area to be
added to the public way.