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LONDON HOUSING SCHEMES. L.C.C. RECOMMENDATION. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, November 26. A progressive spirit is seen in a recom* mendation of the General Purposes Committee of the London County Council. Following a recent experiment, in the course of which tenderers were asked to Quote alternative prices for certain British and foreign materials, the committee states that: After careful consideration we have no hesitation in advising the council to extend its policy of Imperial preference to many of the materials used in the construction of dwellings and other buildings. In deference to the opinion of the Housing Committee, it is added that:— The additional cost of exercising such preference in the case of the council’s dwellings should be borne by the county rate, and should not operate in any way to cause tenants to pay higher rents It this recommendation is adopted the first schemes on which it will be exercised will probably be those for now hopsmg estates at Becontree and St. Helier, where the Housing Committee proposes that a total of 2400 houses should be built at a cost of £1,300,000.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20917, 6 January 1930, Page 10
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