Housing up-to-date (companion volume to the Housing handbook) . ASS , H L. Paterson, , iq, St. James Street, —Thomas Roper and Sons limited, Mowbray Street, Sheffield. The sites are leased for 200 years at a ground rent based on (a) thecapital value of the land taken at ^200 per acre ; {b) the estimatedcost of making roads, sewers, etc. ; {c) an extra charge for speciallygood sites. This method of utilising municipal land, taken as a whole, is veryinteresting, and well worth the attention of other municipalities. The following interesting calculations we
Housing up-to-date (companion volume to the Housing handbook) . ASS , H L. Paterson, , iq, St. James Street, —Thomas Roper and Sons limited, Mowbray Street, Sheffield. The sites are leased for 200 years at a ground rent based on (a) thecapital value of the land taken at ^200 per acre ; {b) the estimatedcost of making roads, sewers, etc. ; {c) an extra charge for speciallygood sites. This method of utilising municipal land, taken as a whole, is veryinteresting, and well worth the attention of other municipalities. The following interesting calculations were made by Mr. E. , A., one of the judges in the Sheffield competition, asto the difference in the cost of road and sewer-making between thecheapest plan and the most costly plan of development :— Capital Outlay. Maximum. Minimum. £ £ Cost of Land (24 acres at ^200) 4,800 ... 4,800Cost of Roads ... ... 16,000 ... 9,000 20,800 13,800 Difierence in capital outlay, ^7,000, or ^291 per acre. 163 SHEFFIELD COTTAGE EXHIBITION, 1907. AE^2 CT •. [Iliusiratio?is kindlv lent by the ^Municipal Journal.\ FIRST PRIZE-CLASS , Frank W. Chapman, Imperial Chambers, Norfolk Row, , Dawson and Jones, Sheffield and Huddersfield. Class A.—Cottages to contain two bedrooms, living room, scullery, and bath. Maximum cost ^ B.—Same as A, but three bedrooms. Maximum cost ^ C.—Same as B, with/ar/«?/;rin addition. Maximumcost;^2 2 5. The prices include architects fees and builders^ profits, with fencingand drainage, but not the cost of land or roads. Of the cottages erected 23 are in Class B, 10 in Class C, and 9 inClass A. The houses are built in blocks of two, three, and four, and theaverage number of houses is twelve to the acre. To ensure that the stated cost should be bond fide, the exhibi-tors were bound, if called on to do so, to sell the cottages to theEstates Committee of the Shefifield City Council at the catalogueprice,
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