FLATS OUST MANSIONS

Evening Star, Issue 15480, 30 April 1914, Page 10

FLATS OUST MANSIONS

The changed habits of the English >eople are reflected in the, numerous empty mansions to hp seen in the streets and squares of Kensington, London, where not. so very long ago it was difficult to obtain a house. Some

of these have already been altered so

that instead of one family two or more "Van occupy the same in separate flats. This conversion is now to be carried out on a more extensive scale, it being apparent that families find it more economic and convenient to live in flats than in "large houses, in which they have to maintain large staffs of servants, and instead of entertaining at their homes, as formerly, to do so at the hotels or restaurants. A largo number of houses* in Earls terrace, Kensington, which have been standing ' empty upwards of three years, and imposing a loss of over £1,300 yearly on the ratea, are to be converted into blocks of flats at an estimated cost of £240,000. These when converted will; it is expected; bring their owners an aggregate of £30,000 a year, and they irfll also once again contribute to the rates.