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Scheme submitted to the Board was accompanied by an estimate
of the cost of acquiring the properties comprised within the area,
such estimate amounting, with incidental expenses and cost of
sewers and roads, to the sum of £43,528. This sum, however,
included the above-mentioned sum of £6,000 borrowed under the
Board's sanction of the 27th May, 1902.
In order to put the payments for other properties already
purchased upon a proper basis, and to provide funds for the purchase
of the remaining properties, the Committee RECOMMEND
the Council to make application to the Local Government Board for
sanction to borrow the sum of £37,528, such sum to be repayable
within the maximum period allowed under the Housing of the
Working Classes Act, 1903, that is to say, 80 years.
The Recommendations were adopted by the Council.
HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACT, 1890- Part 111.
The 135 houses built by the Corporation have been kept in a
satisfactory condition and are all occupied.
There are now 369 children living with their parents in these
houses. Twelve of the Dwellings are flats let at rents of 4s. 6d.
and 5s 6d. per week, and are only suitable for small families.
Twelve children are resident in these flats. Excluding these, there
is an average number of three children in each house.
It should be remembered that owing to the popularity of the
Dwellings, removals are not frequent, and many of the children
who were quite young when their parents became tenants of the
houses, have now grown up, married and removed elsewhere.
Applicants with a large number of children are not accepted
as tenants for the flats, on account of the limited accommodation,
but with this exception, no preference has ever been given to
applicants on account of their having few children.