Housing up-to-date (companion volume to the Housing handbook) . land for ^1,750, and duringthe years 1900-6 built on it 76 houses somewhat similar to those on theillustrations, each containing four dwellings. They comprise 255 dwellings with two rooms at 5/- per week, and26 dwellings with four rooms at 8/8 per week. The cost of buildingwas ^73,250, or ^119 per room. The Kent Cottage Company at Leigh has some 32 dwellingsarranged in a kind of quadrangle, round a central green and approachedby a simple road, costing only about ;£?>o. A striking proof of the need for revision of the bye-laws i
Housing up-to-date (companion volume to the Housing handbook) . land for ^1,750, and duringthe years 1900-6 built on it 76 houses somewhat similar to those on theillustrations, each containing four dwellings. They comprise 255 dwellings with two rooms at 5/- per week, and26 dwellings with four rooms at 8/8 per week. The cost of buildingwas ^73,250, or ^119 per room. The Kent Cottage Company at Leigh has some 32 dwellingsarranged in a kind of quadrangle, round a central green and approachedby a simple road, costing only about ;£?>o. A striking proof of the need for revision of the bye-laws in thisrespect is to be found in the fact that Hampstead Garden SuburbTrust, who desired to imitate the above-named examples and develop theirestate of some 240 acres on these lines, actually found it necessary togo to Parliament and get a special Act passed enabling them to varythe provisions of the bye-laws of the Hendon Urban District Council as tothe construction of new streets. The Two Methods of Planning. (By kind permission of Garden City Association.).
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