Housing by Alden Percy 1865- & Hayward Edward Ernest

Author:Alden, Percy, 1865- & Hayward, Edward Ernest
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Working class -- Dwellings, Working class -- Great Britain, Housing -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : Headley brothers

of the Working Classes Acts Amendment Bill, 1906," makes some interesting recommendations in this direction.*

4.—Municipal Ownership of Land. This power to purchase land is most urgent, and especially so in the case of the municipalities. Our municipalities must have greatly increased powers of land purchase around their borders, if our towns and cities are to be rightly developed in the immediate future. Germany is far ahead of us in this respect; and the reason for this is that the land monopoly, of which we have been speaking, is largely unknown in that country. " The purchase by German towns of land outside their boundaries is rendered easier than the purchase of land would be for English towns, even if they were as free from legal restrictions as German towns are, by the fact that land is in far more hands in Germany than in England, and holders of small quantities of land are, as a rule, less able to hold their land till it will sell for a very high price than are the holders of large estates."t Mr. Horsfall instances the loss to the township of Manchester of Trafford Park, which would have formed a valuable suburb for the people, the Council having failed! to previously

* See Chapter on Rural Housing, page 44.

t " The Example of Germany," by T. C. Horsfall, pp. 82 and 18.

J Cf. also a similar instance in regard to Sheffield mentioned in Municipal Journal for November i6th, 1906. In this case the difficulty seems to be " in the inelastic nature of the regulations under which the departmentjthe L.G.B.^ acts."

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