LONDON OF THE FUTURE

Dunstan Times, Issue 3378, 13 June 1927, Page 5

LONDON OF THE FUTURE

MR T. FORREST’S PROPHECY. In vieiv of the decision of the London County Council to build blocks of lints about 92ft high, at a cost of £1,250,000, to take the place of slum dwellings in the Ossulston street area of St. Paneras, N.W., it may bo mentioned that Mr G. Topiuim Forrest, the council’s architect, visualises that London in the next century will embrace Uxbridge on the west, Watford on the north-west. Romford on the oast, Hartford on the south-east, and Parley on the south, and that the open land which now exists between these places aaid London will in the next twenty -In e years be covered with streets and houses fsavs the London ‘Daily Mail’) He has also observed the beginning of a tendency which will end with Central London becoming the principal residential area of the metropolis, with streets of Hats within the boundary of Camden Town, St. John’s Wood, liayswa’ei, Netting Hill, Kensington, Chelsen, tMilham, Battersea, Clapham. lirixton, and Kensington. As time goes on, ho also forecasts, people who own motor oars will not. as at present, live farther and farther away from the centre, but will move into these flats in'the central area and use their cars for getting out of London rather than into it. The Ossulston street scheme is the first so far framed in dealing with insanitary areas in the centre of London to rehouse on the cleared areas a number of people equivalent to those displaced.