WORKMEN’S HOUSES
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL’S SCHEME Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright 1 LONDON, February 1. Mr Neville Chamberlain (Minister of Health), when laying th foundation stones of the new County Council workmen’s dwellings, costing £400,000, at St. Pancras, announced a large scheme whereby big areas of working class houses which were not bad enough for demolition would be repaired and improved. About 100,000 of these dwellings were available in London annually. This would be a geat step towards solving the housing problem, and twenty-two other London housing schemes were also being considered. He congratulated the council not only on providing workmen’s dwellings, hut garages to meet the expected increase in motors. Colonel Levita, chairman of the Housing Committee, referring to criticisms, declared that it was unwise to _ construct high buildings in the neighbourhood of railway termini in view of the possibility of air raids Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19781, 3 February 1928, Page 7
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145WORKMEN’S HOUSES Evening Star, Issue 19781, 3 February 1928, Page 7
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