MIGHTY LONDON
A NEW TOWNSHIP. L.C.C.’S £1,000,000 SCHEME. LONDON, Nov. 14. The building of a new town, to be known as “St. Helier’s” at a cost of £1,000,000, on the outskirts of London, will be started in the new year. Fifty thousand new houses are wanted by Londoners, and this scheme, for which the London County Council is responsible, will provide 9,000 bouses, with accommodation for about 50,000 people.
The new town will be christened St. Heiier's as a compliment to Lady St. Helier, who has just retired from the London County Council. it will be in the Merton/ area, covering 843 acres, and will include parks and open spaces, up-to-date shopping centres, ten elementary schools and two secondary schools. “An additional 17,000 houses are required every year to cope with London’s increasing population,” a member of the London County Council told a Press representative. “We! ( havc now, I think, caught up with the current increase, and arc tackling the problem of arrears. We get about 500 applicants a day for houses, and about 300,000 applications are on our books.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 November 1927, Page 4
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