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The Red Lion
Street Area.
(Pakt II. Housing of the Working Classes
Acts.) Steady progress has been made
througnout the year in connection with the
Scheme for dealing with this Area. Many of the properties
have been purchased by private treaty.
A scheme for laying out the streets and erecting dwellings
to accommodate 100 persons on the Artichoke Alley site has
finally been agreed to by the Local Government Board The
dwellings on the Artichoke Alley site will comprise ten double
tenements, four on the east side of Artichoke Alley as proposed
to be widened (30 feet), and six on the west side thereof. Bach
tenement will contain living room with lobby, two bedrooms,
scullery, larder and water closet, the first floor tenements being
approached by a flight of steps.
The cost of each double tenement is estimated at £400
exclusive of the value of the land.
Widening of
Streets.
Important negotiations have taken place
during the year concerning properties in King
Street and Paradise Road, with the object of
widening the public thoroughfares in the constricted portions of
those streets. In September an enquiry was held by an
Inspector of the Local Government Board as the result of and
an application by the Council for the loan of £9,618 for the
widening and improving of Paradise Road.
Workmen's
Dwellings.
The 135 houses erected by the Corporation
under the Housing of the Working Classes
Act, 1890, Part III., have been kept in a
satifactory condition, and are all occupied.
Forty dwellings have been erected in North Sheen to
comply with the requirements of the Local Government Board
in connection with the demolition of buildings in the Red Lion
Street Area.