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DWELLINGS FOR THE LABOURING POOR.
Considerable progress has been made in carrying out the
scheme for devoting the balance of the purchase money of the
St. James's Burial Ground to the erection of a block of dwellings
for the labouring poor, to which reference was made in
the last Annual Report.
The Vestry have taken a plot of ground at the corner of
Ingestre Place and Silver Place on a building lease for 63
years from the 24th June, 1885, at a ground rent of one
penny for the first year, and £50 per annum for the
remainder of the term. The rent originally proposed was
£75 per annum, but on representations being made to Sir R.
F. Sutton, the freeholder of the ground, he very kindly
reduced the amount to £50, at the same time stating that he
could not injustice to his other tenants extend the term as
desired by the Vestry.
In addition to the balance of the purchase money of the
Burial Ground, the Vestry have accepted an assignment of
the lease of No. 7 Ingestre Place, and the accumulated
surplus receipts in respect of the rents derivable therefrom.
This property has hitherto been under the management of a
body of private trustees, and it is anticipated that the amalgamation
of the two projects under a public body will be an
advantage to both, by developing the scheme more rapidly
than would otherwise have been the case. The Vestry have
also a sum of nearly £80, the surplus of a fund raised some
years since to relieve the sufferers by a fire in Little Windmill
Street, to be applied in aid of the scheme for the dwellings.
Upon the petition of the Vestry and the various other
parties interested, an Order was made by Mr. Justice Pearson
on the 3rd August, 1885, authorising and directing the several
before-mentioned moneys to be applied to the erection of
the proposed dwellings in Ingestre Place, the nature of the