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were well advanced at the end of the year. The schedule of values for the first
section is subject to revision for further work on the estate if necessary.
On 28th February, 1928, the Council decided to convey to the Southern Railway
Company, without payment, about 12 acres of land needed for the construction of
the new Wimbledon to Sutton railway across the estate, with a station in a central
position, subject to the company undertaking to construct the station at the same
time as the railway and to maintain a service of trains to and from the station when
the railway is in operation. Additional land, with an area of about two acres, was
subsequently sold to the company, at £450 an acre, for the purpose of securing
increased width for the railway.
The Council on 11th December, 1928, appropriated the main portion of the site
of the disused school in Harwood-road, Fulham, for the erection of block dwellings
under Part III. of the Housing Act, 1925, and the remainder of the site for the widening
of New King's-road and Harwood-road. The old school buildings will of course
be demolished. The area of the housing site is .76 of an acre, and plans have been
approved for the erection thereon of a five-storey block of dwellings to contain 44
tenements and 8 lock-up shops. The scheme also provides for 12 perambulator
and cycle sheds. This constitutes the first instalment of the dwellings proposed
in pursuance of the new policy of the Council for the provision in or near the central
areas of London of accommodation under Part III. of the Act. (see p. 178).
Harwoodroad
site,
Fulham.
The first example of the repair and adaptation by the Council of existing house
property for working-class accommodation (see p. 179) is afforded by a block of
39 houses at Twyford-street, Islington. The property was originally acquired
for the erection of a new school on the site, but, the school not now being required,
the houses are being repaired and adapted for occupation by families displaced by
clearance schemes.
Twyfordstreet
site.
Particulars are given below of the various schemes being carried out by the
Council for the clearance and reconstruction of unhealthy areas under Part II. of
the Housing Act, 1925.
Clearance
schemes.
The labard-street, etc., scheme deals with the Tabard-street and Grotto-place
areas, Southwark, and the Crosby-row area, Bermondsey, comprising in all about
18½ acres. The clearance of the three areas involves the displacement of 4,550
persons of the working class, and the Council is required under the confirming Order,
made in 1912, as amended by the modification Order issued by the Minister of Health
in July, 1926, to provide rehousing accommodation for not fewer than 3,580 persons,
of whom not fewer than 2,580 are to be rehoused on the Tabard-street area. Accommodation
has been provided on the main portion of the Tabard-street area, known
as Tabard Garden estate, for 2,380 persons in seven blocks of dwellings and one
cottage. Two 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 has been provided at East Hill estate, Wandsworth.
On 18th December, 1928, the Council decided to let on lease for 99 years at
a rent of £65 a year a site in Nebraska-street, on the estate, to Church Army Housing
Limited, for the erection of working-class dwellings.
Tabardstreet,
etc.,
scheme.
The Brady-street scheme, which was confirmed by the Minister of Health in
1922, relates to an area of 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 (Collingwood-estate),
and for 265 persons elsewhere. Accommodation for 1,390 persons has already
been provided under the scheme, and on 18th December, 1928, the Council approved
a capital estimate of £29,600 for the erection on the area of two further blocks of
dwellings (Blackwood House and Harvey House), comprising in all 50 tenements
of the normal type, with accommodation for 320 persons, and 4 lock-up shops on
the ground floor of Harvey House. The tender of Rowley Brothers Limited,
Brady-street
scheme.