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Particulars of the rents fixed by the Council from time to time for its workingclass
dwellings will be found in the annual reports for previous years. Weekly net
rents (exclusive of rates and water charges) for further accommodation provided
both at cottage estates and in block dwellings were fixed by the Council during the
year as follows :—
Rents.
Cottage estates.—Becontree (sections 8, 9 and 10)—Houses—3 rooms, 10s. 6d.
to lis. 6d.; 4 rooms (non-parlour), lis. to 14s. 6d.; 4 rooms (parlour), 12s. 3d.
to 14s. 6d.; 5 rooms, 12s. 9d. to 14s. 6d. Flats—2 rooms, 8s. to 9s.; 4 rooms, 12s.
Castlenau estate (643 houses)—3 rooms, 14s.; 4 rooms (non-parlour), 14s. 6d. to
17s.; 4 rooms (parlour), 16s. to 17s. 6d.; 5 rooms, 16s. 3d. to 18s. Downham
(2,626 further houses and flats)—Houses—3 rooms, 12s.; 4 rooms (non-parlour),
12s. 6d. to 14s.; 4 rooms (parlour), 13s. 6d. to 15s.; 5 rooms, 14s. 6d. to 15s. 3d.
Flats—2 rooms, 10s. to 10s. 6d.; 3 rooms, 10s. to 11s.; 4 rooms, lis. 6d. to 12s.
YVatling estate (1,103 further houses and flats)—Houses—3 rooms, 12s.; 4 rooms (nonparlour),
12s. 6d. to 14s. 6d.; 4 rooms (parlour), 13s. to 15s. 6d.; 5 rooms, 14s. 9d.
to 15s. 9d. Flats—2 rooms, 10s. to 10s. 3d.; 3 rooms, 10s. 6d. to lis. 6d.; 4 rooms,
12s. to 12s. 6d. White Hart Lane estate (304 further houses)—4 rooms (non-parlour),
lis. 6d. to 12s.; 4 rooms (parlour), 13s. 6d. to 14s.; 5 rooms, 14s. to 14s. 6d. Wormholt
estate (662 houses)—3 rooms, 12s.; 4 rooms (non-parlour), 13s.; 4 rooms
(parlour), 14s. 6d. ; 5 rooms, 15s. 6d.
Block dwellings.—Birchfield House—2 rooms, 5s. 6d. to 6s. 6d.; 3 rooms,
7s. 6d. to 9s. Dickens estate (Oliver House)—2 rooms. 8s. to 8s. 6d.; 3 rooms, 9s. 3d.
to lis. 6d.; 4 rooms, lis. 6d. to 12s. 6d. East Hill estate (Plymouth. Falmouth
and Newlyn Houses)—2 rooms, 9s. to 10s.; 3 rooms, lis. to 13s.; 4 rooms. 12s. 6d.
to 14s. 6d.; 5 rooms, 14s. to 16s. 6d. Holland estate (Carter and Bernard Houses)—
2 rooms, 10s. to 10s. 6d.; 3 rooms, 12s. to 14s.; 4 rooms. 15s.; 5 rooms, 16s. 6d.
Hornsey Rise estate (Ritchie, Goldie and Welby Houses)—2 rooms, 9s. to 10s. 6d. ;
3 rooms, lis. to 13s. 3d.; 4 rooms, 13s. to 16s.; 5 rooms. 16s. 6d. Hughes Fields
estate (Blake and Hawkins Houses)—2 rooms, 7s. 6d. to 8s. 3d.; 3 rooms, 9s. 6d.
to 10s. 9d.; 4 rooms, lis. to 12s.; 5 rooms. 13s. to 13s. 6d. Kennings estate
(Calstock, Fowey, Helston, Liskeard, Landulph, Penmayne and Trematon Houses)—
1 room, 6s. to 6s. 6d.; 2 rooms, 8s. to 8s. 6d.; 3 rooms. 10s. to 10s. 6d. Ring Cross
estate (Branston and Rollit Houses)—2 rooms, 9s. to9s. 6d.; 3 rooms, lis. to 13s. 6d.;
4 rooms, 14s.: 5 rooms, 15s. 6d. to 16s. 6d. Whitmore estate (Horner Houses,
Blocks 3 to 5)—1 room, 5s. 9d. to 6s. 3d.; 2 rooms, 7s. 3d. to 7s. 9d.; 3 rooms,
9s. 3d. to 9s. 9d.
Advantage was taken by the Council, in co-operation with the Holborn Metropolitan
Borough Council, of the demolition and redevelopment of certain property
adjacent to the Council's Shelton Street estate, to effect a widening of Macklin-street,
Holborn. As part of the arrangement, a portion of the yard of the Council's dwellings
was surrendered, with an appropriate financial adiustment to the housing account.
Sheltonstreet
estate
During the year the Council made grants not exceeding £140 in all. out of
interest on deposits paid by tenants on taking up tenancies, for prizes for the best
kept gardens and window boxes on the Council's estates, and contributions to the
local funds for judging the various competitions. The Council also made
a contribution of £5 towards the iudeine expenses of the London Gardens Guild.
Prizes for
gardens and
window
boxes.
The question of the use of electricity for domestic purposes on the Council s
housing estates was again under consideration during the year. In the case of
pre-war dwellings, the only estate, apart from the lodging-houses, at which electric
lighting was installed in the first instance, was Totterdown Fields estate, Tooting.
At ten estates developed partly or wholly since the war, including Becontree, Roehampton
estate, Bellingham, Downham, White Hart-lane estate, Old Oak estate
and Norbury estate, electricity was not installed for any purpose. Negotiations
were, however, in progress at the end of the year with a view to electricity being
Electricity
for domestic
purposes.
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