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both houses and tenants, have been complied with to the satisfaction
of the Housing Inspectors, the necessary works having been completed.
Waxwell Terrace is a good object-lesson of what can be
done by reconditioning houses.
Proposed Alteration of the Charing Cross Bridge.
The subject of the proposed alteration of the Charing Cross
Bridge and the suggested removal of the present Charing Cross
Station to the South Side of the River will in all probability, so far
as can be foreseen, inaugurate great changes in North Lambeth.
It appears unwise to attempt large repairing schemes in the threatened
area, owing to the enhanced value thereby given to property
which may later have to be demolished. At the same time, the
fact that several hundreds (perhaps thousands) of people may be
dehoused as a result of the new approaches and alterations to the
southern bridge-head in this neighbourhood, must not be forgotten;
as (and when) practicable and expedient, a housing scheme will,
no doubt, be evolved which will provide dwellings for those dispossessed.
This will, when completed, ease the pressure of the
crowding in dilapidated property which obtains at present in that
particular neighbourhood.
Other Factors at Work in Connection with Housing.
There are other factors at work, insidiously, but none the less
surely, in causing an increase of pressure additional to those other
factors which are well known, viz., the erection of factories and
workshops in place of dwellings, which provide work for more
people, but at the same time diminish the available living accommodation,
especially for those poorer classes who are unable to
afford the travelling expenses entailed by living far from their work.
It is to be hoped that it may not be necessary to treat the erection of
new workplaces and factories in the same fashion as the establishment
anew of offensive trades, but certainly more attention will
have to be paid to what is now termed "zoning."
London County Council (Lambeth Bridge) Act, 1924)
Housing Scheme under the 5th Schedule of the Housing
Act, 1925.
The following properties have been acquired:—
Lambeth Road (Nos. Ill, 113, 143, 145,) Norfolk Court
(Nos. 1, 2).