SECURING^ HOMES

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 23, 27 July 1920, Page 8

SECURING^ HOMES

.' PUBLIC UTILITY SOCIETIES GOOD BRITISH SCHEME. (FROM OlJIt OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, 6th May. Not long ago Lord Onslow 501d,...f0r £38,000, 646 acres of land to a public utility society, with the view to the for-; mation of a garden village alongside the famous Surrey chalk-ridge known as the Hog's Back. Mr. F. Litchfield, one of th« projectors of Hampstead Garden -Suburb, is the head of the scheme, and with him on; the committee of management are Lord Onslow and Mr. Henry Powell. Lord. Onslow has invested £20,000 in the enterprise, and the Corporation of Guildford loans another £20,000, while_ the ■Government is making a loan for fifty years of three-fourths of the cost of the : houses. The Government, too, will pay one-third of the annual loan charges during that time, while the industrial, concerns which acre to be established on the site, the tenants of the houses,. And' ■the public, will all have their share. Five years hence the society hopes to have the village complete with KKJO houses or more. There are to be only, five houses to the acre. , Ninety-six acres, ■will be occupied by factories, churches,, institutes, and hostels, but there will be no publichouses. Fifty, acres'.will-be re- 1, served for recreation grounds and woods. Two hundred houses are to be ready by. September, 1921. ' :■ Or Saturday the foundation stonesi were laid of two houses, one by Ladys Onslow and one by Mr. H. A. Powell, Lady Onslow said she had . lived for: 'many years next door to the garden city' at Hampstead, and she could speak from personal experience of the great benefit of. these schemes to those who spent the days in towns and came home to pure air and healthy surroundings in the evening. A luncheon was given ■by • Lord Orslow on the occasion,' and local children braided the maypole. ■ • ...

Guildford was the first municipality to complete workmen's dwellings under Dr. Addison's schemes, and it is the home.of a large number of other movements, which have spread throughout the country and made good. In this case the new gardes village, which will be brought" into being, will have a, greater air space than any other buildins area in the country. Three hundred! acres will be set apart for small holdings and allotments. , ■J t is ulli" afcely intended to sell part of the land for the erection of houses of a more pretentious type, so that-the- village will be practically a self-contained. com»n:mty, while the tenants will be encouraged to take their fair share ia the government of Guildford. by tha fact that 1 they will have to pay" their. own rateS direct-to the. local authority..