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Hornsey-rise
estate.
Kennings
estate.
Shore estate.
Rents.
During the year arrangements were made for the provision, at a cost not exceeding
£315, of 21 perambulator and cycle sheds on the estate.
The Hornsey Rise estate, Islington (3 acres), was purchased by the Council in
1925 and the accommodation for 1,168 persons provided thereon has been allocated
for rehousing persons of the working class displaced in connection with the acquisition
of properties for the education service. The estate, which comprises three blocks
of dwellings (188 tenements) of the normal type was completed in January, 1928.
During the year the Council accepted the tender, amounting to £464, of Messrs.
R. C. Cutting and Company for the provision of lightning conductors on the dwellings
which are built on high ground and somewhat exposed to storms from the south-west.
Arrangements were also made for the laying out, at a cost not exceeding £860, of
the gardens adjoining the dwellings.
Kennings estate (White Hart-street site), Kennington (about 2⅓ acres), was
taken on building lease for 120 years from the Duchy of Cornwall. The estate,
which comprises seven blocks of dwellings (two of the simplified and five of the normal
type) to accommodate 958 persons in 169 tenements, was completed in November,
1928. The accommodation has been allocated for rehousing purposes in connection
with the China-walk, etc., scheme.
Shore estate (Well-street site), South Hackney (3 acres), was taken on building
lease for 99 years from the Governors of St. Thomas's Hospital. The first two
blocks of dwellings, one of the simplified and one of the normal type and known as
Grendon and Kendal Houses, respectively, were completed during the year. The
accommodation for 508 persons in 92 tenements in these two blocks has been appropriated
for rehousing purposes in connection with the Baker's-alley, etc., scheme
(232 persons) and the George's-road and Brand-street scheme (276 persons).
On 31st July, 1928, the Council approved a capital estimate of £22,040 for the
erection of a further block of dwellings of the normal type (to be known as Tornay
House), which will be a replica of Kendal House and will comprise 44 tenements
with accommodation for 268 persons, an estate workshop and store, and 10 perambulator
sheds. The building work, which was commenced in July, 1928, is being
carried out by Rowley Brothers, Limited, as an extension of their contract for the
erection of Grendon and Kendal Houses.
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 1928 as follows:—
Cottage estates.—Becontree (Dagenham No. 11 section, about 2,058 houses and
flats),—Houses—3 rooms, 10s. 6d. to 11s.; 4 rooms (non-parlour), 11s., to
14s.; 4 rooms (parlour), 12s. 3d. to 14s. 3d.; 5 rooms, 12s. 9d. to 14s. 3d. Flats—
2 rooms, 8s. to 8s. 6d.; 3 rooms, 8s. 9d. to 9s. 9d.; 4 rooms (non-parlour), 10s. 3d.
and 10s. 9d.; 4 rooms (parlour) 12s. Downham (1,106 further houses and flats)Houses—3
rooms, 12s. and 12s. 6d.; 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, 11s. 6d. to 12s. Watling-estate (2,004
further houses and flats)—Houses—3 rooms, 12s. and 12s. 6d.; 4 rooms (nonparlour),
12s. 6d. to 15s. 6d.; 4 rooms (parlour), 13s. 6d. to 15s. 6d.; 5 rooms,
14s. 9d. to 15s. 9d. Flats—2 rooms, 10s. and 10s. 3d.; 3 rooms, 10s. 6d. to 11s. 6d.;
4 rooms (non-parlour) 12s. to 12s. 6d.; 4 rooms (parlour), 13s. Wormholt-estate
(122 further houses and flats)—Houses—3 rooms, 12s.; 4 rooms (non-parlour), 13s.;
4 rooms (parlour), 14s. 6d.; 5 rooms, 15s. 6d. Flats—3 rooms, 10s. 6d. to 11s. 6d.;
4 rooms, 11s. 6d. to 12s. 6d.
Block dwellings.—Collingwood-estate (Codrington House)—2 rooms, 8s. to
8s. 6d.; 3 rooms, 9s. 6d. to 11s. 3d.; 4 rooms, 11s. 6d. to 12s. 6d. Comber-estate