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The following lands not included in the Clearance Area are incorporated
in the Order : —
Hoxton Street (part of) Nos. 28, 28a, 30, 32, 32a, 34, 36; disused timber
store, saw mill, offices, yard, land and outbuildings, 40, and rear of
28 to 36; 42, 44, 46 and 48.
Windsor Place. Land between 4 and 8; part of public street and dust
shoots; land rear of 46 and 48, Hoxton Street and adjoining 4,
Windsor Place.
Sarah Street. Part of public street, No. 13a (workshop).
Crooked Billet Yard. Private and public street (part of).
Kingsland Road. No. 9a (factory, offices, showrooms and storerooms).
Whitmore Estate.
Fourteen blocks of dwellings have now been erected by the London
County Council upon the Ware Street area represented in 1919. These
dwellings contain 435 tenants and 1339 rooms. It is understood that four
blocks remain to be built to complete this scheme. Demolition of old houses
in Nuttall Street has been commenced in preparation for these.
Rent Restrictions Acts.
Previous Rent Restrictions Acts were continued and amended by the
Amending Act of 1933, which received the Royal Assent on 18th July.
Under this Act the control of dwelling houses with annual recoverable
rents or rateable values of over £45 was ended as from 29th September, 1933.
Rent control has been a factor of the greatest importance in determining
the housing situation in this Borough since the war, and the effect of the
application of this new limit is accordingly a matter of considerable interest.
1 have to thank Mr. Bean, the Council's Registration and Valuation
Officer, for giving me his views. In his opinion the effect of the new £45
limit in this Borough is infinitesimal so far as private dwelling houses are
concerned. Shops are the premises mainly affected. Since the passing of
this Act, as before, it is estimated that some 90 per cent of the rents in
Shoreditch are controlled. The effect is that it is very much cheaper to
continue to live in a controlled, and often in a thoroughly unsatisfactory
house, than to move into uncontrolled and better accommodation. Controlled
tenants are thus unwilling to move.
The new Act further requires the registration of houses decontrolled by
reason of the fact that the landlord has obtained possession. A large number
of premises have been registered under this provision, but as these premises
are not newly decontrolled this part of the Act has no bearing upon the general
position as just stated.