Westminster City (Millbank) Improvement Act 1929
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1929 c. l |
| Year | 1929 |
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Westminster
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(Millbank) Improvement Act, 1929.
CHAPTER 1.
An Act to enable the council of the city of West-
A.D.
1929.
minster and the Duke of Westminster and his
successors in title as owners of the Millbank
Estate to make provision for rehousing the
working class inhabitants of the said estate
to make street improvements in connection with
the redevelopment of the said estate and to
make agreements for the provision of the money
required for those purposes. [10th May 1929.]
W
HEREAS the city of Westminster (hereinafter
referred to as " the city ") in the administrative
county of London is a metropolitan borough constituted
under the London Government Act 1899 and is under
the management and control of the mayor aldermen and
councillors of the city (hereinafter referred to as " the
Council "):
And whereas lands in the city known and hereinafter
referred to as " the Millbank Estate " form part of the
Grosvenor settled estates which under the provisions
of a deed of settlement (hereinafter referred to as " the
Grosvenor Settlement") dated the fifteenth day of
February nineteen hundred and one are now vested and
are so declared to be vested by a vesting deed dated the
first day of January nineteen hundred and twenty-six
in the Most Noble Hugh Richard Arthur Duke of West-
minster (hereinafter referred to as " the Duke ") in fee
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(Millbank) Improvement Act, 1929,.
A.D.
1929. simple upon the trusts of the Grosvenor Settlement of
- which the Right Honourable Reginald McKenna and
Sir Vincent Wilberforce Baddeley are the trustees:
And whereas the Millbank Estate lies to the south of
Horseferry Road and extends westwards from the river
Thames and is a built up area intersected by Page Street
Marsham Street Vincent Street Esher Street Kensington
Place Hudson's Terrace Johnson Street and HinchlifTe
Street and is covered by dwelling-Kouses and industrial
and commercial buildings erected for the most part in the
early years of the nineteenth century :
And whereas most of the dwelling-houses on the
Millbank Estate are occupied by persons of the working
classes and are worn out and require reconstruction or
complete renovation and the industrial and commercial
buildings have been altered from their original uses and
are not wholly suitable for the purposes to which they
are now applied:
And whereas by the overflowing of the river Thames
on the night of the sixth and morning of the seventh days
of January nineteen hundred and twenty-eight much
injury was caused to the buildings on the Millbank
Estate :
And whereas the Duke and thes Council desire to
co-operate in improving the Millbank Estate and in
facilitating the rehousing of the working
class!
inhabitants
of the Millbank Estate in new and improved dwellings
in the neighbourhood of their existing homes but have
been unable to accomplish those objects without the
powers granted by this Act:
And whereas the Council are the owners of houses
for the. occupation of. the working classes known as
Regency Street Dwellings situated near the western
extremity of the Millbank Estate and the Council have
recently undertaken the erection of additional houses for
the occupation of the working classes on land'purchased
from the Duke adjoining the Regency Street Dwellings :
And whereas the Duke and the Council have agreed
upon an improvement scheme described in the First
Schedule to this Act for the replanning of the Millbank
Estate and the said improvement scheme comprises—-
1.
The grant by the1 Duke to the Council of a lease
for 999 years at the rent'of one shilling a year
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(Millbank) Improvement Act, 1929.
of an area of about five,acres of land for the A.D. 1929.
purposes of the Grosvenor housing scheme —
hereinafter mentioned;
2.
The gift by the Duke to the Council out of capital
moneys
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in the hands of the trustees of the
Grosvenor Settlement of a contribution towards
the cost of the carrying out of the Grosvenor
housing scheme and of the street improvements
hereinafter specified;
3.
The carrying out by the Council of a housing
scheme entitled "the Grosvenor housing
scheme " by the erection of a sufficient number*
of new dwelling-houses to rehouse the working
class inhabitants on the Millbank Estate;
4.
The making of a new street which will provide
improved through communication between
Lambeth Bridge and Vauxhall Bridge Road
and the closing of several existing streets;
5.
The replanning and redevelopment of the
remainder of the Millbank Estate by the erec-
tion of new and modern buildings :
And whereas by the London County Council (Lam-
beth Bridge) Act 1924 the London County Council are
authorised to rebuild Lambeth Bridge which is now
closed for vehicular traffic aftd in connection with the
rebuilding of the said bridge the London County Council
have made provision, for street improvements on the
Millbank Estate at Grosvenor Road and Horseferry Road
adjacent to the said bridge :
And whereas the whole of the lands of the Millbank
Estate are let on a lease dated the thirty-first, day of
December nineteen hundred and twenty and granted by
the Duke to Holland & Hannen and Cubitts Limited
and the said lease will expire on the twenth-fourth day of
June nineteen hundred and thirty-four and the lessees
under the said lease have agreed with the Duke to
surrender their lease in order that the improvement
scheme may be carried out:
And whereas portions of the lands of the Millbank
Estate are occupied by tenants holding under subleases
or agreements from the said lessees :
,And whereas it is expedient that the improvement
scheme should be confirmed and made binding on .the
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