View report page

102
It will be noted that the number of houses falls short
by 524 from the number estimated in 1919, but this is almost
entirely accounted for by the action of the Government in
exercising their right under the Defence of the Realm Acts
to purchase the freehold of that part of the estate upon which
huts were already erected.
KEYNSHAM GARDENS.
In the beginning it was the intention of the Council to
develop the estate under the Assisted Housing Scheme of
1919, but owing to changes in Government policy, this was
not possible, and the houses have been erected under three
different schemes. These changes have prejudiced the Council
financially. Under the assisted scheme, the total cost falling
on the local rates was limited to the product of a penny rate,
and only the first 448 houses came within this scheme. Sixty